hardly surprising, but interesting nonetheless. also, rasmussen reports that 62% of Democrats are worried about a repeat of the florida debacle, including 31% who are very worried about such an outcome. Among Republicans, just 26% are worried about the possibility, including just 6% who are very worried. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Media Partisanship June 17.htm -- RasmussenReports.com Thursday, June 17, 2004--Among fans of the Fox News Channel, George W. Bush is winning by a landslide--65% to 28%. Those who prefer CNN also prefer Kerry by an almost identical margin (63% to 26%). The latest Rasmussen Reports survey documents a similar split on the radio dial. Those who listen to National Public Radio prefer Kerry by a 68% to 27% margin. However, those who listen to Christian radio stations on a regular basis prefer Bush, 71% to 23%. This gap mirrors the political divide between those who attend Church regularly and those who don't. The gaps go deeper than simply the Presidential election. In the race for Congress, Fox fans will vote for GOP candidates by a 56% to 25% margin. The CNN audience will vote Democratic by a 54% to 27% margin.
Well I can agree to a certain extent but there are reasonable and responsible people on both ends of the political spectrum. Just as there are fanatical ones at both ends. Granted CNN tends to lean liberal just Fox tends to lean conservative. I think we are too hung up on this issue and the media should get back reporting the facts and not spinning one way or another.
And anyone who tunes in to either station for anything more than entertainment ought to have their heads examined. CNN and FOX are news outlets like E! Entertainment Television is a news outlet.
A majority of Americans have held at least one of three mistaken impressions about the U.S.-led war in Iraq, according to a new study released Thursday, and those misperceptions contributed to much of the popular support for the war. The three common mistaken impressions are that: U.S. forces found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There's clear evidence that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein worked closely with the Sept. 11 terrorists. People in foreign countries generally either backed the U.S.-led war or were evenly split between supporting and opposing it. Overall, 60 percent of Americans held at least one of those views in polls reported between January and September by the Program on International Policy Attitudes, based at the University of Maryland in College Park, and the polling firm, Knowledge Networks based in Menlo Park, Calif. "While we cannot assert that these misperceptions created the support for going to war with Iraq, it does appear likely that support for the war would be substantially lower if fewer members of the public had these misperceptions," said Steven Kull, who directs Maryland's program. In fact, no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq. U.S. intelligence has found no clear evidence that Saddam was working closely with al-Qaida or was involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Gallup polls found large majorities opposed to the war in most countries. PIPA's seven polls, which included 9,611 respondents, had a margin of error from 2 to 3.5 percent. <b>The analysis released Thursday also correlated the misperceptions with the primary news source of the mistaken respondents. For example, 80 percent of those who said they relied on Fox News and 71 percent of those who said they relied on CBS believed at least one of the three misperceptions. The comparable figures were 47 percent for those who said they relied most on newspapers and magazines and 23 percent for those who said they relied on PBS or National Public Radio.</b> http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/special_packages/iraq/6918170.htm?1c
Sorry giff no. Oct 2003 But there was another article that follows the same study more recent. But I couldn't find it.
1. War is an instrument of morality or justice, and not existential necessity (security or economic). 2. The rest of the world respected America before Bush was in office. 3. The enitre Western intelligence community was infallible long before 9/11 or Gulf War 2. No one foresaw the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Those are the things that nag me anyway...
