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Poll: Most doubt plan for Iraq victory
CNN ^ | November 30, 2005

Posted on 12/01/2005 2:01:15 AM PST by jmc1969

As President Bush launched a new effort Wednesday to gain public support for the Iraq war, a new poll found most Americans do not believe he has a plan that will achieve victory.

Just 35 percent wanted to set a specific timetable for their exit, as some critics of the war have suggested.

Among poll respondents, 55 percent said they did not believe Bush has a plan that will achieve victory for the United States in Iraq; 41 percent thought he did.

Asked about Bush's handling of the Iraq war, 54 percent said it was poor, while 44 percent thought he was doing a good job.

Asked if the war will make the United States safer from terrorism in the long run, 48 percent said yes and 43 percent no, within the poll's sampling error.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: cnn; gwot; iraq; iraqifreedom; lamestreammedia; liberalmedia; lmsm; msm; pollsoniraq; presidentbush; victorystrategy; wot
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These numbers are actually quite good for us. They clearly show the US public wants to win the war and doesn't want to cut and run.
1 posted on 12/01/2005 2:01:16 AM PST by jmc1969
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To: jmc1969

Who is this guy "Most"?


2 posted on 12/01/2005 2:15:58 AM PST by NRA1995 (Jesus is the reason for the season)
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Yes, I noticed that also. CNN is working very hard to spin this negatively. I hope the President engages in a dialog with the American people now. He has an actively hostile, immature, unprofessional media to content with...the good news is that the American people despise the media. Notice we never see their poll numbers.
3 posted on 12/01/2005 2:16:09 AM PST by Patriot from Philly
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Notice the following in CNN's article:


"The poll conducted Wednesday does not directly reflect how Americans are reacting to Bush's speech, because only 10 percent of the 606 adult Americans polled had seen it live and two-thirds had not even heard or read news coverage about it."


4 posted on 12/01/2005 2:18:15 AM PST by RTINSC (What, Me Worry?..My company offers French benefits...)
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And if there is a slight majority who have doubts, its because the media has worked very hard to do that. The fact that the numbers are so close means that their attacks, while having some success, aren't as effective as they wish.


5 posted on 12/01/2005 2:20:15 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: jmc1969

Man they can spit out those polls.


6 posted on 12/01/2005 2:22:35 AM PST by NapkinUser ("Our troops have become the enemy." -Representative John P. Murtha, modern day Benedict Arnold.)
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To: jmc1969

Polls by the crooked leftist media are just propaganda tools. Just the news they wish they could report.


7 posted on 12/01/2005 2:26:14 AM PST by dsc
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Poll: Most doubt CNN's credibility


8 posted on 12/01/2005 2:26:38 AM PST by Schnucki
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To: NRA1995

I think Most is a flaming lieburral.


9 posted on 12/01/2005 2:32:30 AM PST by Past Your Eyes (Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
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didn't everybody just notice the big black X that flashed on the screen?


10 posted on 12/01/2005 2:54:18 AM PST by JohnLongIsland
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If bill clinton was still president a poll would be very significant.

With President Bush as commander-in-chief what the commanders' report from the field is what matters most.

11 posted on 12/01/2005 2:56:53 AM PST by ajolympian2004
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A much more accurate poll, TV viewer ratings, shows that a vast majority of the American public don't watch CNN, let alone believe their polls.


12 posted on 12/01/2005 2:58:03 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee (Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
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didn't everybody just notice the big black X that flashed on the screen?

You are right... there it is!


13 posted on 12/01/2005 2:58:57 AM PST by ajolympian2004
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To: Schnucki

***Poll: Most doubt CNN's credibility***

Especially after CNN had Murtha rebut the President's speech IMMEDIATELY after the re-play at 8 p.m. last evening.


14 posted on 12/01/2005 3:01:47 AM PST by kitkat (Democrat/Socialist/Communist.= Hillary the RED)
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To: jmc1969

For the past several years, I have started going to the web for my news. I might here something on "legecy" media, but I always go to the internet so I can get a wider range of views of the story. In the last couple weeks I can't get anything but the same garbage from all the typical portals I have used like google or msnbc. I think the liberals are trying to splatter their message everywhere so you can't find the real facts. In other words, if you can't beat them buy them out. It has made me begin to wonder if I am the only one who can see the obvious. Do "most" people think we will be safe by wishing it so? I would sleep easier if I knew my neighbors weren't the spineless slugs the media claims them to be. Man, I'm tired


15 posted on 12/01/2005 3:03:34 AM PST by Zyngre
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Man, I'm tired

Get some rest. Being a pajamahadeen is hard work!

Welcome to FreeRepublic.

16 posted on 12/01/2005 3:08:22 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: NRA1995

Maybe it's just another Alan Smithee that CNN made up.


17 posted on 12/01/2005 3:22:48 AM PST by Wiz
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To: Schnucki

I Agree about not trusting CNN. They have not given us any reason to trust them along with the other MSM.


18 posted on 12/01/2005 3:30:48 AM PST by Agdistis
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

My journalism teacher always told me that in all polls negative, add 10% to the positive side and that will more accurately reflect the poll.

He was the only Conservative professor I ever met. His favorite line? "Krugman is a Marxist hack."


19 posted on 12/01/2005 3:34:07 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Liberal Talking Point - Bush = Hitler ... Republican Talking Point - Let the Liberals Talk)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I thought an even MORE accurate poll was one conducted in early November, 2004


20 posted on 12/01/2005 3:37:15 AM PST by RangerM (Perhaps he was comfortable within his skin)
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