New Zogby Poll: Majority of Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapp

[kpete]

New Zogby Poll Shows Majority of Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping

By a margin of 52% to 43%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge's approval, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003.

The poll was conducted by Zogby International, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,216 U.S. adults from January 9-12.


http://www.democrats.com/bush-impeachment-poll-2

[Jawja]

1. Just as I thought.

The recent polls by the GOP polling organizations are bogus. You know, those that say over half of the public SUPPORTS the illegal wiretapping?

[Botany]

2. Some of the polls are so bogus that they are laughable.

But with a compliant and paid media the lie is broadcast as fact.

[salin]

5. those are worded to emphasize bush's claim

that the taps are ONLY used between citizens and suspected members of Al Qeada. That is what the public says is okay - but that isn't the program. What the poll asks is rarely clarified when covered in the broadcast world.

[PATRICK]

11. All shadowy polling is used

on the media one way street to autocracy except any poll that does not jive with a GOP rigged election.

If the polls disagreed with a GOP loss however? That would make the polls 100% the replacement for actual voting in America. But why rig polls when you can rig the real thing with no competition?

[Vincardog]

3. A good push poll gets you the answer you want

IE Is it ok for the Grand and Glorious pResident to wire tap Terrorists phone calls without a warrant or do you support the Devil?

[MuseRider]

4. And all I got

was a poll about being afraid to talk to my boyfriend/husband about sex. Rats, I would have prefered to weigh in on this one!

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. Hey Muse!

I know a freeper who says Zogby polls are not accurate because they have never asked her to participate.

So I guess I shouldn't trust them either. :sarcasm:

[sandnsea]

6. "should consider"

You know, it doesn't help the public debate to misstate what the poll asked. It asked whether Congress "should consider" impeachment. That's a huge leap to Americans support impeachment. It means people want more information. But also, the fact that there was such a large number that disagreed with even considering impeachment is quite telling too. There is still alot of educating to do on this, that's for sure.

[LuCifer]

7. Can you wiretap, err, hear me now?

Good!

[spanone]

8. KICK!!!!!

[BuyingThyme]

9. kcik

[billybob537]

10. Only 26% supported Clinton Impeachment

BUT THESE lying scumbag bastards had to force it . Shrub is universaly hated and MSM wont report it. The lying scum BADMINISTRATION owns the media, and decides what gets air time.

[Jade Fox]

26. As it was then, Congress not responding to...

the will of the American people, and the media backs up THEM, not the people.

This situation really is outrageous!

[katinmn]

12. We also want out of the war and health care for all

according to numerous polls, but no one is listening!

[Neecy]

13. This is why Matthews et al are scrambling....

MSM has tried their best to minimize the fact that our "president" broke the law because they know he committed an impeachable offense.
Thus we see Tweety foaming at the mouth that it's the presidet's 'job' to break the law, we see Wolf consider this something that involves 'our security', etc.

They know the implications of what Bush did and their corporate masters are finally getting nervous (too bad illegal wars, treason, and the Patriot Act didn't phase them).

[MissWaverly]

14. But, But, But I thought the numbers favored Team Bush

and the we still can't find Osama but we'll eavesdrop on your quaker meeting mantra, you
never know when a wild eyed terrorist will show up at a quaker meeting.

[no_more_rhyming]

15. The same

the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. On the Bush/Rove payroll.

[AnneD]

16. As I have suspected all along......

I hope Congress wakes up. America is not buying what the NeoCons are selling. If Alito get in you can kiss what few rights we have left goodbye and that includes Congress' authority. If this happens the people may actually come to the point of 1) ignoring the SCOTUS rulings 2) write new laws. For the Neocons-it is all about the power: how to get it, use it, and retain it.

[understandinglife]

17. What's with the "if" ... he went on national radio/tv and not only ...

... told Americans he was spying on them, he intended to continue ...

IMPEACMENT is just the first event in Bush's path to justice; then comes prosecution in the Senate and hopefully many, many more tribunals thereafter.


Peace.

[Fiendish Thingy]

18. has this poll surfaced in the Traditional Media (AKA MSM) yet? n/t

[Fiendish Thingy]

19. has this poll surfaced in the Traditonal Media (aka MSM) yet? n/t

[babylonsister]

20. I took Zogby's latest, and this wasn't even asked.

It was all about TX politics. :shrug:

[otohara]

23. On-line vs Telephone

I took one on CO politics recently on-line. this is telephone

[Pacifist Patriot]

37. The latest on-line Zogby poll I took was about...

teeth whitening products and sexual behavior. What one has to do with the other I don't know.

[Stephanie]

21. Wow I'm really shocked. After stolen election, 9/11, No WMD, Katrina

Why is this the issue that finally sends him to the cleaners? Is it just such a clear-cut violation that people are really getting it? Because I think they have already obfuscated the issue so much. They confuse you by citing "data-mining" in one breath, while in the other Bush is saying that the taps were specific all were related to Al Queda. Two separate issues conflated to confuse.

[nashuaadvocate]

24. KICK!!!!! nm

[opihimoimoi]

25. Just who are the Deluded who still want the guy to stay???

The man is outta control and dangerous to our National Health...

[kpete]

27. poll release is scheduled for January 16, 2006

The official poll release is, I gather, scheduled for January 16, 2006--Martin Luther King Day--one possible reason sources are reporting that Al Gore will give a landmark speech on that date calling the entire Bush Presidency into question.

Poll respondents were asked, "If President Bush wiretapped American citizens without the approval of a judge, do you agree or disagree that Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment?"

http://sethabramson.blogspot.com/

[kpete]

28. Monday Should be a great day - Happy Goreday!!!

[ginnyinWI]

33. Cspan will carry it live !

12:00 PM EST
1:00 (est.) LIVE
Speech
Civil Liberties
American Constitution Society
Albert Gore Jr., United States
The beginning and end of this live program may be earlier or later than the scheduled times.

[kpete]

29. dupe

[Kahuna]

30. Aww Jeez! And the media has been telling us that we ACCEPT

*'s breaking the law. I hate the MSM. :puke:

[senseandsensibility]

31. kick

I can't wait to see this on the corporate media.:sarcasm:

[fishwax]

32. I'd like to see this poll on CNN

that low rumbling sound grows louder ...

[FogerRox]

34. This seems similar

to the Zogby poll --if BUSH lied about WMDs-- IIRC was 53% yes- Congress should.

I think this is a mandate to stop this administration from doing shit. This is a double barrelled shotgun--

Lied about WMDs -- impeach
Spygate-- impeach

what more do we need to know? Stop Alito-- SHUT THE SENATE DOWN

[EFF_BUSH]

35. IF?????

Why is there an IF? Didn't Bush already admit that he was wiretapping without a court approval?

[regnaD kciN]

38. If...if...if...

That's how all these pro-impeachement polls are phrased...and why, IMHO, they all mean nothing.

We all know that it's not even a matter of "if" anymore, but the average responder uses it as a dodge. "Yes, if Bush did this, he should be impeached" they say, but a large portion of them will look away and refuse to acknowledge any evidence short of a tearful Dubya confession. No matter how much evidence comes forward, it will always be "yes, he should be impeached if he did that (but I'm not convinced he did)."

Until we get a poll showing that a majority support impeachment, with no "ifs, ands, or buts" in the question, such polls are meaningless.

:grr:

[McCamy Taylor]

36. Keep kicking.

[mikelewis]

39. If polls were right, Kerry would be President...

No way only 52% support impeachment. It's gotta be more like 90%. I think the other 38% think impeachment means a blowjob. Who would want Bush to get a blowjob?

[greiner3]

40. Good deal!

Bad thing about Zogby is that I went to sleep fitfully Monday night, day before elections 2004. I had just checked Zogby's latest poll numbers and Kerry was projected to win the election, carrying Ohio by 2%. The rest is history. Ole Mark Twain is rolling over in his grave, laughing. I wonder how he would finish his famous line now. There's 4 kind of lies; lies, damn lies, statistics and ...

[nicknameless]

41. Another Zogby poll, Oct-Nov 2005, showed that the Majority want bush*

impeached if he lied us into war.

http://www.impeachpac.org/?q=node/6

Two different polls, on different grounds, calling for impeachment.

[nicknameless]

46. ^^^^^^^ ALSO: IMPEACH FOR LYING ABOUT WAR (Zogby poll) ^^^^^^^

[RazzleDazzle]

42. That can't be right -- Fox today said most Americans don't mind

being wiretapped.

Honest, that's what they said. Forget whose poll it was supposed to be.

[Hissyspit]

43. Fox Poll -- they had a big banner: "BIG STORY: Fox Poll Shows Most

Americans Support Wiretapping"

The sound was off on the TV at the PX, but I imagine they failed to mention that it doesn't matter what most Americans think, what matters is if it was unconstitutional and/or illegal or not, and it is illegal and unconstitutional. So what their poll was saying is that most Americans don't care about the U.S. Constitution. Good going, Fux News - how come you hate America and the Constitution so much?

I'm sure it was the wording of the poll that got them that result - probably very similar to a NewsMax poll - textbook right-wing push poll. They kept the banner up a long time and were going on and on about it. Not news, not analysis, just blatant propaganda. Embarassing really, but has worked - but for how much longer?

[Jamastiene]

44. Hummala baby. This thing's got wings.

Let's run with it and take off into justice-ville. We wuz robbed, I tell ya. We need justice now.


This message is for Bush's flying monkeys who have been watching us:
Hey, NSA, screw you and your wiretaps. Get a life. To think, you have nothing better to do with your time than watch my boring ass life. Haha, loser.

[paineinthearse]

45. How many peer nominations does it take...

...to get a post onto the home page?

:shrug:

[rman]

48. today 45 at least

but it's not automatic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/forums/faq.html#recommend-homepage

"Click the link in the bottom left-and corner of the message that says "Recommend Topic for Greatest Page." That recommendation will be counted as a vote to get the thread included on the Greatest Page, and it will also nominate the thread for possible inclusion on our homepage. The administrators review all the nominations and select which topics to place on our homepage."

[paineinthearse]

49. 62, and holding my breath.

:shrug:

[Wilms]

47. .