Poll: No Need For More Investigation Of Cheney Shooting (65% no need)

[sabra]

http://www.wnbc.com/politics/7154311/detail.html

Poll: No Need For More Investigation Of Cheney Shooting


POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Two-thirds of voters nationwide say there is no need for a further investigation into Vice President Dick Cheney's shooting of a hunting partner during a visit to a Texas ranch last weekend, a poll reported Friday.

The poll, from Marist College's Institute for Public Opinion and sponsored by WNBC-TV in New York City, also found that 66 percent of voters said they were bothered by the Bush administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina. That was of more concern to voters than the administration's use of warrantless domestic surveillance (50 percent), the indictment of Cheney aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby (50 percent) and the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal (40 percent).

When it came to Cheney's Saturday shooting of Harry Whittington, 34 percent of voters said they wanted a further investigation while 65 percent said that wasn't needed. Democrats were about evenly split while more than nine in 10 Republican voters said they were opposed to further investigation.

[MrBenchley]

1. LOL! And the insurgency is in its last throes....

Geeze, how desperate does the GOP have to be to poll on that question?

[Kolesar]

4. Is Marist a gop polling firm?

just asking

[MrBenchley]

10. Most polling firms work on commission....

They ask the questions somebody pays them to ask....

[Kolesar]

11. I think Afterdowningstreet.org bought a poll

about investigating the Downing Street Memo

[MrBenchley]

15. Exactly...

I've also seen a couple of liberal groups buy an "impeachment" poll....

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

2. In The Scheme Of Things....

It is less important than those other issues, that much is certain.

The better point is that there are SO MANY THINGS that they have Totally & Completely Fucked Up, that it's hard to decide which is the most important to deal with first. Where do you begin?

[rodeodance]

6. if nothing else-the time lapse needs to looked into.

[catnhatnh]

3. Of course an equally valid headline would be....

1/3 of voters believe Cheney incident insufficiently investigated.....

[WePurrsevere]

5. When the FACTS are HIDDEN, People by the SPIN. As FACTS come out

people wake up to the fact that they've been mislead and lied to... but after the denial and grieving comes the ANGER.

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[MrBenchley]

12. Fuck the flabby old drunk

It's hilarious to hear somebody try to pretend that Democrats "can't meet" the standards of not shooting a 78 year old guy in the face of chest while drnk as a skunk at a weekend tryst with a blonde popsy at a lobbyist's ranch, not obstructing justice, and not lying to the press afterwards. What planet do you live on?

"Remember former congressman Gary Condit?"
You mean the guy who got smeared by the GOP for months even though it turned out he had nothing whatsoever to do with the disappearance of a young woman in Washington? I sure as shit do.

"Wilbur Mills?"
Wilbur was a Republican. But don't let facts get in your way.

[arkie dem]

24. Wilbur Mills....

was a Democrat, and a damned good one to boot.

[uncle ray]

13. i don't think ANY DUer has a problem

with a full investigation into ANY dem who shoots his buddy in the face with a shotgun.

the VP shot a man in the face with a shotgun. there is a whole world of difference between that and a bar fight or, ahem, a blowjob.

oh, and please note, the dems were using this angle well before the gunshot, just wait till there are dems in the whitehouse again, freely changing whatever laws they want, unitary executive y'know, spying on republicans, hehe.

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[badgervan]

20. Wah?

You compare a congressman's wife in a common bar fight with the vice president of the country shooting someone in the face and heart? Crawl back into your right-wing hole, idiot.

[Psephos]

23. This is the most obvious troll I've seen in a while n/t

[VegasWolf]

25. Yup, the trolls really are as stupid as their reputations suggest. Let's

not investigate bad guys because we might find other bad guys. Brilliant logic. Not!!!

:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[mediaman007]

8. I don't think that 65% would agree that Cheney's off the hook.

I think it might be a waste of time, because the "fix" is in. I might put myself in with the 65%, but knowing that he was drunk and used his power to get out of responsibility.

[Xenotime]

9. true..

I thought if you shoot somebody, you are arrested...aparently not in SHOOT 'EM TEX!

[Bozita]

14. The telephone poll of 931 regstrd voters was conducted on Monday and Wedn

I'd love to see the poll results broken down by the day.

[still_one]

16. what are their thoughts on an illegal war

the outing of a CIA agent, or the illegal wire taps of Americans, are they tired of that too?

[MagickMuffin]

17. MSNBC: Question of the Day

Here's a poll you can still vote on

Do you care about Vice President Cheney's hunting 'incident'? * 35480 responses
Yes 65%
No 35%

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080261/#survey

[bluestateguy]

18. Majoritarianism is not a technique of argument

nt

[LiberalGuy000]

21. oh yeah...

And no need to ask about WMDs, no need to investigate the Downing Street Memo, no need to question the wiretapping program, and no need to ask about that thing that Bush wore under his jacket during the debates with Kerry...

[Trueblue_Too]

22. Must be his ass....

Everything else is high around here!


:kick:BUSH OUT!

[Secular Agent Man]

26. I wasn't aware there had been an investigation

in the first place.