Home | Community | Message Board
You are not signed in.
Sign In New Account
Forum Index Search Posts Trusted Vendors Highlights Galleries FAQ User List Chat Store Random Growery

MagicBag Grow Bags
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.

General Interest > Political Discussion
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
Even Communist San Francisco Backs Iraq War
    #1441966 -

Story

Reuters
Tuesday, April 8, 2003; 6:02 AM



SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Most people in San Francisco, home to the nation's strongest anti-war protest movement, back the war against Iraq, as does the rest of California, a poll released on Tuesday found.

A Field poll of 1,006 Californians found that across California, 55 percent strongly approved of U.S. military action to remove Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from power, with another 21 percent expressing some support.

Backing in the San Francisco area, where more than 2,000 anti-war demonstrators have been arrested since the war started, is weaker but still far more than the ongoing series of protests would suggest.

The poll, which has a sampling error of plus or minus 3.2 percent, found 39 percent in the San Francisco strongly supporting the war, with another 24 percent expressing some support. But more than half in the Bay area said Washington should have waited longer to wait for diplomacy to work.

The poll conducted April 1-6 in the nation's most populous state also found 61 percent expressing approval of President Bush's performance, still down from its post-Sept. 11, 2001 high of 74 percent.


Edited by TackleBerry (04/09/03 04:52 AM)

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Even Communist San Francisco Backs Iraq War [Re: TackleBerry]
    #1441973 -

Those polls can be slanted based on how they ask the question. I'm sure many of those people are like me, in that even tho they disagreed with the reasons for going to war, they're now hoping we win soon now that we're in there, so it will all be over with.


--------------------


"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."--Voltaire

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Even Communist San Francisco Backs Iraq War [Re: TackleBerry]
    #1441978 -

I'm not surprised by those numbers. Most people have the sense knocked into them when they see cops shooting protestors.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Even Communist San Francisco Backs Iraq War [Re: infidelGOD]
    #1442001 -

Heh.

Or most polls are biased skewed pieces of shit that represent the basic principal of a lottery for the most brianwashed and sympathetic.


--------------------

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Even Communist San Francisco Backs Iraq War [Re: TackleBerry]
    #1442085 -

Damn thats weird.

Not like I know everyone in SF, but, due to the fact that I've lived here for a while, and I know quite a few people, I still haven't really met anyone who is for war.

If the this poll was conducted throughout all of California, it makes sense though. San Diego and LA are mainly conservative, and there are a lot of barrel shootin' hicks out in the boondocks. hehe.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Even Communist San Francisco Backs Iraq War [Re: angryshroom]
    #1442098 -

don't forget Orange County, "The most Republican County in America" it probably skewed the whole results.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Even Communist San Francisco Backs Iraq War [Re: angryshroom]
    #1442573 -

Quote:
Damn thats weird.


I know, when I first saw the article I was like  :confused:

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Even Communist San Francisco Backs Iraq War [Re: TackleBerry]
    #1443277 -

Wow, they polled a whole thousand people. Isn't there something like 30 million people in California? It must be accurate. :smirk:

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Even Communist San Francisco Backs Iraq War [Re: adrug]
    #1443632 -

adrug writes:

Wow, they polled a whole thousand people.

That's about average. Almost all these polls run from 850 to around 1200 people. The number you will see most often quoted is (for some bizarre reason) just over 1000.

It's been that way for decades. The polling organizations and social statisticians say that if you choose the participants being polled according to the correct criteria, it is possible for a relatively tiny group to accurately (within less than 4%) reflect the opinions of the entire group.

Bottom line -- if you call this poll inaccurate, you must necessarily call all public opinion polls inaccurate, because all of them use exactly the same methods.

pinky


--------------------

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

General Interest > Political Discussion
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Wolfowitz: Iraq war WAS about oil
( 1 2 3 all )		 LearyfanS 3,945 45 06/23/03 01:08 AM
by recalcitrant
* Bets for Iraq war
( 1 2 all )		 Buddha5254 1,821 25 03/17/03 01:40 PM
by EchoVortex
* Iraq War Quiz
( 1 2 all )		 RonoS 3,140 21 03/27/03 12:51 PM
by Murex
* Iraq war recap
( 1 2 3 all )		 iglou 3,055 43 08/08/03 04:55 AM
by ololiuqui
* My thoughts, Iraq, war, and genocide Ellis Dee 1,825 14 03/18/03 04:11 AM
by Anonymous
* DC protest OCT 26 against Iraq war
( 1 2 3 all )		 Buddha5254 5,363 49 10/18/02 12:26 PM
by Innvertigo
* Question for pro-Iraq war guys
( 1 2 3 4 all )		 LearyfanS 3,777 62 05/31/03 08:04 PM
by silversoul7
* Anti-Semitic Pogrom at San Francisco State Ellis Dee 1,227 11 06/15/02 01:40 PM
by nugsarenice

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Enlil, ballsalsa
850 topic views. 0 members, 290 guests and 21 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2026 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.028 seconds spending 0.008 seconds on 16 queries.