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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (662168)	11/24/2004 1:38:50 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

If you resist commenting upon the findings of the national poll merely because of some sort of knee-jerk 'shoot the messenger' reflex --- without even bothering to examine the underlying methodology... then you are a very foolish and closed-minded person indeed. On the otherhand, if you have some substantive bones to pick with the polling, which you believe call into question their stated conclusions... then I'd be happy to discuss with you whatever points you have. The title of the article was Americans Show Clear Concerns on Bush Agenda. If you'd like to look at the poll questions, and the structure of their sample, here's the link: nytimes.com One of the interesting things about this poll was that it appears to be one of the first to delve a little deeper into the 'moral values' question that was so famously asked in certain exit polling on election day. You know, the one where large majorities answered that 'moral values' were so important to them in making their decisions. The rap against that particular question was that it was so vague --- OF COURSE nearly everyone believes that moral values are important to them.... the more important question is though what 'moral values'? For example: supporters of stem cell research believe that policy is 'moral', so do opponents. Same with abortion, government deficits, questions of war and peace, etc., etc. This poll broke the 'moral values' question down into more specific policy questions, and then reported the results.