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Politics : THE STARR REPORT -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (1368)	9/21/1998 7:27:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 1533

Oh, you bad boy. You never learn, do you?

To: jlallen who wrote (1368)	9/22/1998 6:52:00 PM
From: Johnathan C. Doe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1533

Tuesday September 22 2:20 PM EDT Testimony Opinion Polls Favor Clinton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Opinion polls taken after U.S. television showed President Clinton's grand jury testimony in the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal indicated Tuesday that the broadcast was less damaging than his critics had predicted. A Gallup poll conducted for CNN and USA Today showed that 66 percent of respondents still approved of the job Clinton is doing, six points higher than the figure Sunday, the day before the broadcast. The approval figure on the previous Sunday was 64 percent. The same percentage rejected impeachment, but 39 percent thought Clinton should resign, the poll showed. USA Today said 81 percent of respondents believed Clinton definitely or probably lied under oath to the grand jury. In an NBC News poll, only 28 percent of respondents believed the president was telling the truth but 57 percent did not believe the president should resign. An ABC News poll showed that 70 percent believed Clinton was right to refuse to talk about the sexual details of his relationship with Lewinsky and 59 percent thought prosecutors were wrong to ask detailed, probing, explicit questions. The ABC poll showed Clinton's job approval holding steady at around 60 percent. The New York Times said in an editorial Tuesday that Clinton had looked in the broadcast ''like an ordinary man defending the ordinary lies he had concocted to hide an ordinary affair''. ''The four-hour tape of his Aug. 17 grand jury testimony will not destroy Mr Clinton straightaway, and as an exercise in boil lancing, it may help him,'' the paper said. An article in the Washington Post said the broadcast, billed as a potential political earthquake, ''hit Washington with only a fraction of the force Democrats had feared and Republicans had anticipated''.