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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (31055)	1/5/2009 1:48:42 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) of 71588

LOL! Wasn't that exactly the SAME POLL that jl was so kind as to already post, and that we have all already seen? And... *didn't that poll show a statistically larger* number of respondents reporting that they were OPTIMISTIC then that they were PESSIMISTIC about the President-elect?** So... it was a bit of a tricky piece of spin for the article Ruffian saw fit to post, talking about that exact same poll, to craft the line it used: "...uncertain or pessimistic about President-elect Barack Obama as the nation’s next commander in chief." Because that is LUMPING ALL THE UNDECIDEDS IN WITH THOSE WHO ARE PESSIMISTIC. (Isn't a glass that's half full just as full as it is empty? <GGG>) "Undecided" or "on the fence" means undecided, no expressed opinion but, hey... if you lumped the "undecideds" with the "OPTIMISTIC" you'd get an even larger percentage because there were more optimistic respondents than pessimistic ones. :-) By a clear EIGHT POINT SPREAD (a statistically significant result) there were more respondents expressing that they were 'optimistic' about the job they expected the President-elect to do as Commander-in-Chief (33%) then those who reported that they were 'pessimistic' (25%)... although 35% were undecided / on-the-fence and 8% 'no opinions'. 33% of respondents were optimistic 25% were pessimistic and 35% were on-the-fence/uncertain with 8% 'no opinion' So, the results of this one survey do not support a claim that "most veterans" are "opposed". That much seems clear: The largest grouping of opinions is 'undecided'... the second largest is 'optimistic'... with the third largest being 'pessimistic'. (All this despite the fact that the poll's universe was clearly hewing to the conservative side of the spectrum and more then half Republican... as the poll itself reported: active-duty subscribers to Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times and Marine Corps Times newspapers... Nearly half described their political views as conservative or very conservative. Slightly more than half said they consider themselves Republicans, 22 percent independents and 13 percent Democrats.) Message 25291996

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