Gallup Refuses to Run Poll Asking Americans if Bush Should be Impeached

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Gallup Refuses To Run Poll Asking Americans If Bush Should Be Impeached
Greg Szymanski


Gallup Refuses To Run Poll Asking Americans If Bush Should Be Impeached
Independent democrats say Gallup's response is dishonest and the company is using a double standard when considering the nationwide poll run during the Clinton presidency.


September 2, 2005

Behind the scenes, independent Democrats who are not “bought and paid off ” by the neo-cons have been pushing the Gallup Poll organization to conduct a nationwide inquiry, asking Americans if they support the impeachment of President George Bush.

But Gallup officials this week categorically refused to poll Americans, telling Bob Fertik, Democrats for Unity president until impeachment was discussed by congressional leaders or news commentators in the media, it was their official policy to refrain from asking hypothetical questions.

Frank Newport, Gallup Poll editor-in-chief, wrote in response to Fertik:

“The general procedure Gallup uses to determine what to ask about in our surveys is to measure the issues and concerns that are being discussed in the public domain. We will certainly ask Americans about their views on impeaching George W. Bush if, and when, there is some discussion of that possibility by congressional leaders, and/or if commentators begin discussing it in the news media. That has not happened to date.”

Fertik, head of an organization at www.democrats.com, disagreed with Gallup, saying the company’s justification was “completely dishonest” since Bush’s impeachment is a hot topic clearly in the public domain and on the minds of many Americans.

“Of course, your justification is completely dishonest. Is Bush's impeachment being discussed in the public domain? Unquestionably! Simply Google ‘impeach Bush’ and you'll get 723,000 links, said Fertik, reminding Gallup that a recent ZogbyPoll in June found 42 percent of Americans polled support impeachment if Bush lied about Iraq

“And this discussion is not limited to the Internet. Wherever Bush goes, he is greeted by "Impeach Bush" signs (e.g. August 29 in Camp Casey and August 30 in California.. And I hear it discussed on political talk radio frequently.But clearly you did not genuinely mean discussed in the public domain, because your next sentence limits the public domain" explicitly to congressional leaders and/or pundits.




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[orpupilofnature57]

1. Sure, they only deal in polls that don't count! Cowards!!!

[texpatriot2004]

2. I guess that makes them kind of like the "evidence" used by

Bush...CONTRIVED.

[RandomKoolzip]

3. I seem to rememeber quite a few "Should Clinton Be Impeached?"

polls in the papers circa 1997/8, and on TV.

Damn liberal media!

[orpupilofnature57]

6. KICK!!

[lebkuchen]

4. Bush should be tried for crimes against humanity

[dweller]

5. Pat Buchanon not loud enough?

bunch of wienies.

:mad:

dp

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. Why rely on Gallup? Is there no one else?

[Greeby]

8. Paging Zogby

You've already done one, time for another

[ailsagirl]

13. Yes!! Where is Zogby??

I never trusted Gallup anyway-- not after I learned its
head is a repug.

ZOGBY!! ASK THE QUESTION!!

[sendero]

9. Gallup...

... has never been an honest pollster. Screw them. If they did the poll, you'd have to add 5-7% to the "for impeachment" total to get anything close to the truth.

There are plenty of pollsters out there who don't intentionally overweight Repubs in there polling to get a bogus result.

[mattclearing]

10. This just means that Impeachment has to go to No. 1 in the agenda.

From now on, it's the duty of all bloggers and influential individuals to push for the removal of President Bush from office.

Even if we get stuck with Cheney, I would venture that it's a net positive in shaming the policy goals of the most malevolent President in history.

[norml]

11. Gallup falsifies polls. Interviewers do not read the questions verbatim

Interviewers shorten and simplify the questions in order to complete more surveys and meet quota.

Working at Gallup you quickly learn that the reading the surveys as written, as the rules say you're supposed to do, is a suckers game.

Quality control went out the window when the greedy daughters took over the company from the old man.

Now quotas at Gallup are set so high that no honest interviewer could meet them, and those that listen in to check if you're reading the script correctly look the other way.

Next time a survey taker calls you up, ask them if they are reading the survey exactly as written.

That will freak them out.

Anymore Gallup's talk of accuracy and integrity in their surveys is just so much happy talk.

[CalebHayes]

12. Lets draft a letter asking Zogby to do it.

[Imagevision]

14. If impeach Bush poll were taken it would start the wheels in motion for it

Because Diebold wouldn't be collecting the results which would be an overwhelming "Yes"!

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[Pallas180]

15. Gallup is the republicans pollster. They should ask Zogby

Gallup didn;t mind running that kind of poll on Clinton, though , did he