Post #213,402
7/3/05 4:17:33 PM
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For those who believe in polls...
[link|http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/login.aspx?ci=17131|Dubya speech scores]
Excerpt:
A CNN/USA Today/Gallup instant-reaction poll shows that President Bush apparently persuaded many viewers of his speech Tuesday night to be more optimistic about the war in Iraq. Compared with their responses before the speech, people who tuned in are now more likely to say the United States is winning the Iraq war, that Bush has a clear plan for handling the war, and that the United States should keep troops in Iraq until the situation there gets better.
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Post #213,404
7/3/05 4:33:30 PM
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'You can fool some of the people all the time . . . '
Excerpt:
"As has been typical of Bush's speeches, the viewing audience was composed largely of his supporters."
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Post #213,406
7/3/05 4:52:41 PM
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And they all had one head each.
I know a meaningless statistic when I see it. But take comfort where you can.
By the way, I still don't take these polls all that seriously. I just don't believe the level of support was that much lower to begin with. Support for freedom is deep. What polls measure is at a much more shallow level.
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Post #213,429
7/3/05 11:32:39 PM
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Marlowe and I agree....
what a scary concept!
By the way, I still don't take these polls all that seriously. [...] What polls measure is at a much more shallow level.
Personally, I use recruiting numbers myself.
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Post #213,439
7/4/05 12:19:46 AM
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marlowe! Welcome back from your tour.
bcnu,
Mikem
It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #213,485
7/4/05 9:13:49 PM
7/4/05 9:15:21 PM
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Ya know, kidbot...
Whatever else happens in the coming years, however grotesque a police state may bloom from the spores you and yours have so sedulously toiled to propagate, I will sit back and giggle as the Iraq undertaking lurches from fiasco to clusterfuck on its way to the future Islamic Republic. Likewise I'll titter as neighboring Iran finishes its first generation of nuclear weapons (as they damned well should—the new administration there would stand guilty of malpractice if it did not immediately put its R&D people on triple-shifts) while the US is stretched too thin to present a credible disincentive. Most of all I'll savor the gymnastics that events will require of you if you are to continue to appear here every six weeks to bray that our intervention is going swimmingly. At some point your virtual spine will snap with a crack audible even to you, and I trust that I'll be here to sing along with the event.
[edit: rogue "ago"]
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
Edited by rcareaga
July 4, 2005, 09:15:21 PM EDT
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Post #213,570
7/5/05 11:07:56 AM
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Attention Peter
See what we get from your asking who was Marlowe?
I think you reminded him to spring back into action.
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #213,572
7/5/05 11:11:13 AM
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My Bad
I'll refrain in future :-)
He can be "The Wanker Who Dare Not Speak His Name", or something.
Peter
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