Zogby Poll: 9/11 + 5 Reveals Dramatic Partisan Split

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9/11 + 5 finds a nation badly divided as GOPers back U.S. war on terror, wiretapping, and Saddam's role in 9/11; Dems, Indies suspicious of all three

Five years after 9/11, the bitter division between Republicans and Democrats on key issues is as intense as ever, with the two at loggerheads over the War in Iraq, wiretapping and surveillance, and what role, if any, Saddam Hussein played in the 2001 terror attacks, new polling by Zogby International shows.

The dramatic polarization highlighted by the fifth anniversary of the terror attacks in New York and Washington comes as a bitter midterm election season looms over control of both houses of Congress. The lack of national unity on the issue stands in stark contrast to the near–universal feelings of goodwill that stretched across American political lines immediately after the attacks.

The Zogby America telephone poll of 1,014 likely voters conducted over Labor Day weekend finds members of the two parties diametrically opposed on key issues, while independents line up more closely to Democratic viewpoints.

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1169

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Bushco to America:

"Who cares what you think?"

[AmandaRuth]

4. actually i think he said

i fart in your general direction.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Could be.

Sometimes it's pretty hard telling just what ol' Mushmouth is trying to say.

[kurth]

2. The great Uniter-not-a-Divider done a heckuva job

Fucking brainless morons still believe Saddam was behind 9/11.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. There are some interesting numbers in there.

In one key measurement in the survey, a 58% majority says the Iraq War has not been worth the loss of American lives, while 36% say it has. But the partisan breakdown shows a very different story. Among Republicans, 58% say the war has been worth the cost in lives, while among Democrats, just 20% hold this view—a number that improves to 28% among independents.

It looks as if bush war-a-palooza tour isn't working.

[stepnw1f]

5. Yeah... Watch Zogby Gradually Make the Election Appear Close AGAIN!

Fuck polls.... I have no faith in them anymore.

[Singular73]

7. lol, relax there....

There is no "weighting" of these results.

Its fine if 100% of republicans support everything, and 100% of democrats don't, as long as 70% of people identify themselves as Democrats or Independents.

Thats why a lot of these polls don't make sense to people.