A Comfort Thought; we ARE the MAJORITY.

[LynnTheDem]

We ARE the MAJORITY:

The MAJORITY of Americans OPPOSED bush's unilateral invasion of Iraq. America only shifted to a majority (54%) approval AFTER the actual invasion began.

The MAJORITY of Americans now say the invasion of Iraq was the WRONG thing to do.

The MAJORITY of the populations of every nation on this planet OPPOSED bush's invasion of Iraq. NOT ONE NATION in the entire world had a population majority that supported bush's invasion of Iraq.

The MAJORITY of Americans say bush is taking this country in the WRONG direction.

The MAJORITY of Americans DISAPPROVE of bush's handling of Iraq.

The MAJORITY of Americans DISAPPROVE of bush's handling of the economy.

The MAJORITY of Americans DISAPPROVE of bush's handling of the environment.

The MAJORITY of Americans DISAPPROVE of bush. His "job approval" is a NEGATIVE. Again.

We ARE the majority.

[RoeBear]

1. So how the fuck did Kerry lose? n/t

n/t

[LynnTheDem]

2. Damn fine question.

But we aren't the first -and won't be the last- nation to have a majority who disapproves of the "elected government".

[obnoxiousdrunk]

4. You know

those Faaamily Values thing is so important to us merikans.

[tridim]

5. Fraud

The voters voted for (or attempted to vote for) Kerry and BushCo shredded those votes.

[Warpy]

6. Diebold and ES&S

and a couple of other machines. Kerry won. Bush cheated.

Check out those exit reports.

[DaedelusNemo]

14. Ignorance of which positions belonged to which candidate

On most issues, a solid majority agree with the 'liberal' position, as long as they don't know it's the 'liberal' position. The fact is, the country is pretty liberal, but the name brand has been thoroughly pissed on.

[GOPBasher]

15. Good point.

And welcome to DU! :hi:

[DaedelusNemo]

17. :D thanks /nt

[rockymountaindem]

18. Wise words.

That's about as clearly as I've heard things explained so far. It reminds me of that poll about people who supported a particular position, and then thought Bush stood for it when in fact he did not. It was something like "Do you support the UN?" and a majority said yes, and then they asked "Does President Bush also support the UN?" and a majority of people said he did.

That supports what I think about the future of the party. This left vs. moderate, progressive vs. centrist war we're having around here is needless. Most people, I think, agree with us, but as you say they don't realize it. It's more about how we get the message out. Kerry won the voters who voted on the economy, the war in Iraq and social issues. Those are the issues we ran on and we did our job in that category.

[DaedelusNemo]

19. :) i read that poll, i think

Majorities of Bush voters thought Bush was (like them) a supporter of the Kyoto treaty, the land mine treaty, the international criminal court, and the test ban treaty. He was against all those things.

They also said that in the hypothetical circumstance that Saddam wasn't behind 9-11 and had no WMD then we should not have gone to war in Iraq. It's a tragedy that they did not know that 'hypothetical circumstance' was in fact the truth.

I'm not sure, but i probably saw these polls at PIPA.org , which is highly recommended to all.

[robbedvoter]

16. He didn't. That's the big lie - and the tragedy is - you bought it.

[kentuck]

3. Then the "majority" did not vote ?

or the the people that were polled did not vote? Or the polls were wrong?

[Stinky The Clown]

8. I have no basis for this theory, but it has always seemed to me

that there is a disconnect between those who get polled, the poll results, and actual voters.

Not to say the polls are skewed one way or another. Just to say that poll results like this don't necessarily equate to actual vote results.

[rocktop15]

7. Good positive thinking..........

but Kerry lost.

BTW the Republicans control EVERYTHING.

[LynnTheDem]

10. Yep. Kerry lost. Rethugs control all. But WE ARE the MAJORITY.

And THEY know it.

Don't let THEM try to put us down as a "fringe focus group minority".

We're not.

WE ARE THE MAJORITY.

:)

[Stinky The Clown]

9. Just curious ...... what is the view of the majority of

Israelis with respect to the War in Iraq(tm)?

[LynnTheDem]

11. Went pretty close to the US;

First a slim majority disapproved, mostly coz they feared retaliation attacks from Iran. Then when the "war" itself was "won", they switched to a majority approval. With the ongoing carnage they were back to a majority disapproval.

I've not seen any Israeli polls in the past couple months though.

[LynnTheDem]

13. Poll on American Jews;

Opposition to War Grows Among Jews

American Jews stand well to the left of the overall American population on a broad range of domestic and foreign-policy issues, and are much more critical of the Bush administration, judging from a comparison of the AJCommittee poll and other recent surveys.

The AJCommittee poll, which has a 3% margin of error and was based on interviews with 1,000 American Jews conducted during the last two weeks of August, found that 24% of Jews would vote for Bush. An earlier survey, released by the organization in December 2003, tracked Bush's support at 31%.

During the same period, according to the latest poll, Senator Kerry's support jumped from 59% to 69%, with 2% of American Jews now backing independent candidate Ralph Nader and 5% still undecided.

Along with the decline in electoral support for Bush has come a jump in the proportion of American Jews who disapprove of the Iraq war from 54% to 66%.

http://www.shalomctr.org/index.cfm/action/read/section/War%20Jews/article/article689.html

Gee! What a buncha ANTI-SEMITES! :D

[Q]

12. Comforting thought indeed...

...but now we have to find a way to get that majority to recognize the danger and work with us to stop the Bush Junta.