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Originally posted by onetime2
Any strategy that gives serious weight to the above quote is way off base, however. Even if it were true (which I doubt) it is certainly not true of the section of the population that actually votes.
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On the contrary, search the Internet for the Knight Ridder poll taken in February. A bleak number of Americans interviewed (17%) knew that Iraq was not involved in the bombing of the WTC. Almost all Americans interviewed expressed an understanding that Iraq and Al Queda were linked.
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The Knight Ridder survey appears to reveal a quite different reality. Of those surveyed, only 17 percent knew the correct answer: that none of the hijackers were Iraqi. Forty-four percent of Americans believe that most or some of the hijackers were Iraqi; another 6 percent believe that one of the hijackers was a citizen of that most notorious node in the axis of evil. That leaves 33 percent who did not know enough to offer an answer.
"Please try to answer my next questions about Iraq to the best of your
knowledge. But if you're not sure of an answer, that's okay -- just tell
me and I'll go to the next question. Do you think Iraq and Al Queda --
Osama bin Laden's organization -- are allied and working together to
plan new acts of terrorism, or not?"
Are allied 65%
Are not 16%
Don't know 19%
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"As far as you know, how many of the September 11th terrorist
hijackers were Iraqi citizens: most of them, some of them, just one, or
none?"
Most of them 21%
Some of them 23%
Just one 6%
None 17%
Don't know 33 %
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Of course, it's just a poll. But it's still disturbing.