There's a summary of an odd LA Times poll over here. I haven't seen the questions they asked, but then again those answers (Osama/Saddam/Yo Mama) are what you get in wartime when people's heads are full of propaganda. (Lovely whitehouse.org stuff, graphics- heavy)
My technique is more -- dare I say it -- scientific: I dial a number at random, sing a couple of verses of Randy Newman's Political Science.
No one likes us-I don't know why
We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try
But all around, even our old friends put us down
Let's drop the big one and see what happens
We give them money-but are they grateful?
No, they're spiteful and they're hateful
They don't respect us-so let's surprise them
We'll drop the big one and pulverize them...
And listen carefully to the response received...
Speaking of pulverizing things, the latest ordnance now ready for (re-)use over Baghdad is the concrete bomb. These improved wonder-weapons (no explosives, just fins and steering vanes) are "precision bombs that are considered effective against fixed targets while minimizing risk to nearby civilian structures," says Reuters. In an old England idiom, That's about as subtle as a flying mallet.
But don't worry about the above-mentioned poll results: they don't count any more. This President is on the record as being not about to set policy based upon a focus group. Therefore he should logically ignore this poll's results. One can go further and say the President must ignore them on firm moral principle, I think -- unless God were to tell him otherwise. But I'm asking God not to -- just in case He is looking at the numbers.
Now I have some polling work to do.
I'm still waiting for a CNN story on poll results to show up on the web. Here's some snippets from the TV-- CNN has also seen a rally 'round the flag effect in their polling in the US and the UK. However, in western countries whose soldiers are not starring in Iraqi Freedom™, the antiwar feelings are on the upswing.
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My technique is more -- dare I say it -- scientific: I dial a number at random, sing a couple of verses of Randy Newman's Political Science.
And listen carefully to the response received...
Speaking of pulverizing things, the latest ordnance now ready for (re-)use over Baghdad is the concrete bomb. These improved wonder-weapons (no explosives, just fins and steering vanes) are "precision bombs that are considered effective against fixed targets while minimizing risk to nearby civilian structures," says Reuters. In an old England idiom, That's about as subtle as a flying mallet.
But don't worry about the above-mentioned poll results: they don't count any more. This President is on the record as being not about to set policy based upon a focus group. Therefore he should logically ignore this poll's results. One can go further and say the President must ignore them on firm moral principle, I think -- unless God were to tell him otherwise. But I'm asking God not to -- just in case He is looking at the numbers.
Now I have some polling work to do.
- bruno 4-06-2003 8:12 pm
I'm still waiting for a CNN story on poll results to show up on the web. Here's some snippets from the TV-- CNN has also seen a rally 'round the flag effect in their polling in the US and the UK. However, in western countries whose soldiers are not starring in Iraqi Freedom™, the antiwar feelings are on the upswing.
- mark 4-07-2003 11:00 am