CNN, USA Today and Gallup Poll

[dkf]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/12/14/sprj.nirq.saddam.poll/index.html

More than half of those polled -- 54 percent -- said they were very confident or somewhat confident that the elusive chemical and biological weapons would be found.

Sixty-eight percent of respondents said they were very or somewhat confident that bin Laden, believed to be hiding in the mountainous area at the border between Afghanistan and northeast Pakistan, would be captured.

Other responses were:

• 67 percent were very or somewhat confident that Iraq would become a democracy, somewhat fewer than the 75 percent in late March.

• 60 percent were very or somewhat confident the attacks by insurgents in Iraq would be stopped.

-->Some really high expectations there. Now Americans feel unstoppable. Dems need to set the goal posts here since that is what the people expect.

• 45 percent said they were planning to vote to re-elect Bush next year, even before the capture, while 43 said they hadn't planned to vote for him, and still won't.

[pruner]

1. the last stat is the most important…

no change in Bush's reelection #s.

:)

[slinkerwink]

2. I agree

[jonoboy]

3. and they will be bitterly disappointed on the first

[Killarney]

6. yes!

43% still won't vote for him!

That's fantastic! With 11 months to go, too! We can beat him.

[Jester_11218]

4. 51% of the people polled are in the majority

Polls are the most usless and misleading tools to measure public opinion. They do not measure if the people polled are informed and/or have the correct facts that lead them to their decision.

It is a better measure of how poorly people are informed by the new media than it is a reflection of reality.

[dusty64]

5. Looks like many

more things too become disappointed about later. People are grasping at anything to justify what we've done and see this as our "out". We ain't going anywhere, not as long as there are $$$ to be made. This "bounce" will be shortlived and is mainly fueled by the most disgusting media fellatiofest that I have ever witnessed.

[ithacan]

7. proof of how clueless Americans are

they are living in a fantasy world constructed by Fox news and other propaganda outlets.

But wishing something true does not make it so!

[ErasureAcer]

8. 43 percent not voting for Bush

doesn't mean 43 percent for the democratic candidate. I myself am not voting for the democratic candidate no matter who it is.

I will vote for Kucinich or Sharpton in the GE shall they get the nod. Otherwise...3rd party here I come.

If the Dems want to win they better nominate a good candidate...coughKucinichcough...or be prepared for another 4 years of Bush.

[democraticgator]

9. some things never change

Voting 3rd party is voting for bush, especially in a swing state. If I were living back in Boston I would consider voting green out of principle, but now that I live in Florida, Ill be voting dem even if it's Lieberman. The Bush administration has to go, whether the democratic choice is the ideal candidate or not.

[loudnclear]

10. A vote for Bush is a vote for a new war!

That ought to be the candidates' message.