Posted on 03/26/2005 7:15:20 AM PST by Drango
WASHINGTON -- By a margin of almost 2-to-1, likely Florida voters feel strongly that Congress and President Bush should have stayed out of the battle over Terri Schiavo's fate, according to a new poll conducted this week for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Florida Times-Union.
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The media snowjob is working.
Freepers will say they are all lying. It's a conspiracy. LOL
As someone else said "From Buckhead to this in six months. It's been quite a freefall."
"The media snowjob is working."
Or the people don't want the Feds interfering. Assuming that everyone agrees with your position is flawed logic.
Listening to Pat B on MSNBC- discussing these polls.
Umm...don't know much about the Florida Times Union, but the South Florida Sun-Sentinel is a liberal rag. Those poll results are expected.
Disagree.
FR marches to a drummer that no one else can hear...
63% in Florida oppose government intervention in Schiavo case
I'm sure a lot more oppose the government confiscating wages, but the gubmint does it ANYWAY. . .
Why would the Dems have to say anything?
The GOP is effectively ripping itself apart over this issue.....
/chads
I wonder what the poll results were in Nazi-era Germany?
Ok- call Henny Penny- Julian Epstein and Pat Buchannan are on national tv (MSNBC) and are in AGREEMENT on 95% of the topic...
Exactly.
I say media snowjob. Unless the pollees are told the grody details about Terri, they only have a sanitized picture of it.
This is exactly why Democracy is to be feared. Thank God this is a Constitutional Representative Republic. A little broken, as evidenced by this case, but by and large our individual rights are still preserved.
I'm not so sure about that, after reading the Sun-Sentinel's whitewash yesterday.
What is their opinion?
yeah but the day Pat Buchanan represents 95% of the GOP I think I may not vote anymore :-)
People are horribly ill informed about even normal issues, let alone this one.They don't know the background of the case and what is at stake.
These polls are bogus.
Most people in Florida are aware of one thing--the date their Social Security check arrives.
Soon, we will have to have starvation practice classes. 63% of the people think they're a great idea.
Depends on how many "good Germans" were asked.
The ABC poll was a snowjob.
Death by poll? How many people think we should but the MSM out of its misery?
Where did I claim that everyone agrees with my position? All I'm saying is that if the media convince enough people that government intervention is wrong and that this is a family matter, they have diverted attention away from the fact that MS and Greer are getting away with murder.
Most people don't know 5% of the details of this case - they believe she is brain dead and that the "family" has decided to "let her go."
A judge ordering her death over the wishes of the family is certainly government interference.
HAaaaaaaaa...ditto that:)
So they would like the police to stop guarding her room? They would like the courts to not order her starvation and dehydration?
The poll is showing that most americans don't want: government involved with individual rights. There is only one issue in this whole entire circus that needs to be addressed. Her right to die as she requested, that's it. Most people seem to be forgeting that.
"I say media snowjob. Unless the pollees are told the grody details about Terri, they only have a sanitized picture of it."
So, you think they should only hear what the advocacy sites say? Do you suppose that those sites and people are providing the entire picture, without bias?
Bottom line here is that most people who care about this whole issue HAVE heard the gory details...and they've made their decision about how they feel.
Again, don't assume that either side has all the facts straight. That's perfectly obvious from reading the tens of thousands of posts on FR. There is much misinformation coming from the Terri advocacy folks, too.
LOL polls change as truth emerges... The dems cling to polls while they whine about who is in office...
It's a far, far greater problem on a place like DU, which is utterly detached from the political reality of the country and filled with people that encounter nobody that disagrees with them in their daily life, but it's still a problem on FR.
But people make the mistake of assuming that FR is an accurate representation of the opinion of the country; it is not...particularly on a lot of social con issues. More than most social cons are prone to living sort of an insular existence where their family, and their friends and fellow churchmembers and whatnot all have similar views.
They should poll people with feeding tubes.
So true and in this case that drummer ain't got no rhythm.
Some have really gone over the edge on this. Jeb is not the problem nor the killer. Jeb must uphold the law rather some like it or not. And this BS about the polls being wrong, from left wing rags, etc. here we go again...if we don't like the poll shot the messenger.
The government is intervening in the case by preventing Terri from receiving food and water.
There is no individual right to murder your wife.
But the poll wasn't of "most people who care." It was of the largely blissfully ignorant public.
this is poll is a fraud. The sun sentinal is so far left as to be absurd. You could even argue that that they staff is more"gay" than the NYT.
Seriously they HATE GWBush with venom that is beyond belief.
Seriously with all the push polling that we have seen in the last seven days, these numbes are about as absurd as saddam hussein winning election by 100%.
IF the PRIVATE polls were saing the republicans were making a mistake, hitlary would be out front voting aggainst fed. terri's law. (the senate gave a unanimous consent vote)
Goebles would be proud. Anyone who actually believes these polls should just volunteer to enjoy the euphoria of starving to death to help save social security benefits for the rest of us.
Notice how they never tell you the question that was asked. All the questions have been designed to illicit the answer desired. Example: "Terry has been in a persistent vegatative state for 15 years with absolutely no hope of recovery. Do you suuport the painless fashion in which she will be taken off life support or the governments desire to force her to stay alive?" The honest question should be, "Do you support the court order to kill Terry by starvation?" That question is factually and demonstrably true! Read me the results of that poll! Shame on our lazy press and murderous courts. They will not escape the wrath of a just God.
The ABC poll had a misleading question.
Can't disagree with that. Instead of taking the high road, they take the safe one.
Ditto #10.
Since when did conservatives and Christians think it was a good idea to use children to make a political point? That's what the liberals do and get slammed for it.
Since when did conservatives think it was a good idea for the federal government to get involved in what has for years been a private matter between families and doctors?
Since when did conservatives think something should be a federal matter vs. a state's right.
Since when did Christians think it was okay to stand outside a Hospice with bullhorns yelling all day and night? Those patients in that Hospice are suffering because of this.
And there was an article today that a little girl got a phone call from the Hospice that her grandpa was dying and before she could get through all the security checkpoints, he'd died.
And since when did the GOP think it was a good idea to let Randall Terry think he owns the party and is going to control its agenda? He is the face of conservatism and Christianity that a LOT of the country does not like, including moderates AND other conservatives.
And since when did the president not understand Politics 101 that you do not cater to the 25% of your radical base? This is what the Democrats have done to disastrous results.
Should you expect anything different. Please note someone, look what is in Fla. it has been taken over by YANKS, and liberal YANKS. The poulation of native Flas. is a very low percent, a read recently. Someone who knows how to find this on the population of native Fla., will you find and please post???
"But the poll wasn't of "most people who care." It was of the largely blissfully ignorant public."
So you claim. Another assumption.
I think the polls showed Kerry won all the debates too!
What was thee question and how was it worded?
There is a right to carry out the wishs of a patient to end treatment. That treatment was the PEG tube.
Perhaps if they knew that Terri's eyes are bleeding right now, they'd change their minds.
Lord have mercy on us all.
The ABC republican talking points memo has been exposed as a fake.
The ABC poll has been exposed as a rigged quetion with an equally small sample.
The Gallop poll has been shown the same.
There is 100% reason to show NOTHING has changed.
The MSM spins and lies and FR exposes.
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