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are the polls lying - or just the newspapers?

zedhead | 16.09.2001 22:12

every body I've spoken to says this is terrible but we must not go to war, we need to understand why America had this coming and make sure the causes are tackled. Listening to Any Answers on R4 yesterday it seemed that 90% of people agreed.

Yet opinion polls say that 74% of British people support the US's random plans for war.

maybe I know a lot of unusually sensible people (and the sort who ring R4) - but is it just the tabloids whipping up emotional idiocy or are the polls actually lying?

anyone know how to check this?

cheers

zedhead

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Re; Polls

17.09.2001 22:02

I was among fifty reasonably random people at a meeting on Friday morning, and just before the 11am silence, I asked that people think of all victims of terrorism, not just the Americans - I invited people to include the more than a million Iraqis killed in the last decade. Afterwards, several people thanked me for what I had said, and no-one complained. I have contacted all sorts of people by email too, and I have yet to find one person who thinks that an invasion or other form of war makes any sense.

Any one got any ideas how to find out the truth about these polls?

rikki blue

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17.09.2001 22:28

The problem with reports based on polls is needing to know what questiosn were asked and who were asked.

Here's a fairly common source for the media.

 http://www.mori.co.uk/polls/2001/notw-ny.shtml

Bear in mind the average punter only has the coroporate media as a source of information though.

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and another

17.09.2001 22:41

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/vault/stories/data091401.htm

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