Poll: Bush wins points on foreign policy

[Ahriman]

The Tennessean poll also shows that Kerry has been less successful in convincing voters that the Bush administration allowed Osama bin Laden to escape by di-verting attention to Iraq.

Voters were evenly split when asked whether Kerry's vote against Iraqi war funding means he would not be a good commander-in-chief, a claim the president has made about the U.S. senator from Massachusetts.

On most other foreign policy issues, poll respondents tended to agree with the president's claims made in debates and campaign speeches, while rejecting those made by Kerry.

The survey, of 625 Tennesseans who said they are likely to vote in the Nov. 2 election, was conducted Oct. 19-21 by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. of Washington for The Tennessean with the Chattanooga Times Free Press. It has a margin for error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

http://www.tennessean.com/elections/2004/archives/04/09/60295409.shtml?Element_ID=60295409

[takumi]

1. Consider the Source!

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. The "source" endorsed Kerry over Bush.

[mmonk]

2. I literally hate ignorance

[cubsfan forever]

18. As a professor, so do I n/t

Professor 2

[napi21]

4. You gotta remember this is Tn! It also doesn't say what part of Tn

There's a BIG difference between Memphis and Knoxville. It seems Tn is very similar to Ga in that respect. Although you have a very large concentration of people in Atlanta and most are dems, the entire rest of the state of Ga. is very repug!

[sandnsea]

5. This is unbelievable

Now that we absolutely know there were no WMD in Iraq, 53% of these people STILL don't think we should have let the inspections continue. How? I just do not understand how they come to that conclusion. That's like killing 300 kids in a school and then saying, "oops, no criminal in there after all". This stems from making excuses for cops who rush to judgement and kill people all these years. Only this time we've started something we're going to have a helluva time getting out of.

[BillZBubb]

6. Mason-Dixon polling--enough said!

They are to the right of Gallup. Don't believe the poll.

[Sinnerman]

10. There is one thing Polls can't Track..........

Cell Phones !! Millions of americans have dis-connected there land Lines to utilize Cell phones This is approx. 3% of Voters So besides the average of 3% margin of error

ADD an additonal 3%

My Pre-dic
Kerry 55%
Bush 46%
Nader 1%

[fob]

7. Why don't they give the poll results if Kerry has been "less successful"?

Here's all you need to know about this Mason-Dickhead poll;

Bush's performance rating as president remains high, with 58% saying he is doing an excellent or good job. Sixteen percent said fair and a quarter of people in the poll said poor.

First - Where's the breakdown of Excellent and Good? Why lump em together if he's so fucking great?

Second - 58% (excel and good) plus 16% (fair) plus 25% (poor) = 99% Rounding down the negative votes aholes?

Third - 3 choices POSITIVE and 1 choice NEGATIVE?

[greekspeak]

8. Another reason I stopped listening to NPR

The local station was constantly quoting mason-dixon polls. They always favor Shrub, and I do not trust them at all, just like Gallup.

[Tempest]

9. Too bad economic issues are more important to voters

All the polls show voters are more concerned, by far, by economic issues.

And Kerry is kicking Bush's ass in that catagory.

[mzmolly]

11. This poll was 1. conducted in Tennesse, and 2. conducted before the

recent horror of missing weapons. :hi:

[onehandle]

12. Even if this wasn't a skewed poll, Who the fuck cares?

Why would you think we would care about this?

I wonder.

[Gloria]

13. M-D is crappy and this is already 5 days old!!! And a lot has

happened over the weekend (Arms cache?)....

[Jacobin]

14. Next poll: "Wasn't slavery better than emancipation"

:eyes:

[HuckleB]

15. The worst foreign-policy president in any of our lifetimes wins points?

Umm. Can you say "the press isn't doing its job!"?

[Zorra]

16. Wow, you must have looked long and hard for that article, huh?!?

Or is someone feeding them to you?

[scavok]

17. The wording of the poll doesn't help

It doesn't look like the poll asks any questions about how people feel about how the Bush administration has conducted this war in light of:

- Underestimating war and reconstruction costs
- Sending troops into battle without body armor and tanks
- Pushing toward Baghdad with little thought about protecting supply lines
- Widespread looting
- The prison abuse scandal
- Not protecting 380 Tons of high explosives
- Etc. Etc. Etc.

As long as the polling only looks at the Congressional funding of the war this issue will remain hidden.

Which is, after all, why these biased questions get asked.