- Most people in the U.S. don't know or care about Libby. Who are you fooling?
Posted on 07/02/2007 7:39:42 PM PDT by balch3
Most in USA Disagree with Bush Decision to Commute Libby Prison Sentence: 21% of Americans familiar with the legal case involving former White House aide Scooter Libby agree with President Bush's decision to commute Libby's prison sentence, according to a SurveyUSA nationwide poll conducted immediately after the decision was announced. 1,500 Americans were surveyed. Of them, 825 were familiar with the Libby case. Only those familiar were asked to react to the President's action. 17% say Bush should have pardoned Libby completely. 60% say Bush should have left the judge's prison sentence in place. 32% of Republicans agree with the President's decision, compared to 14% of Democrats and 20% of Independents. 26% of Republicans say Libby should have been pardoned completely, compared to 21% of Independents and 8% of Democrats. Conservatives split evenly: 31% say Libby should have been pardoned. 35% say the judge's sentence should have been left in place. 31% agree with the President's decision to commute the prison sentence, but to leave the fine and conviction in place. Reaction to the President's decision may evolve over time. This poll attempts to measure a first reaction to the news, before many individuals would have had a chance to be influenced by political spin applied to the story.
Bush did good.
Well, base on this poll I refuse to vote for Bush in his next bid for Presidency.
Most in USA would not have a clue who Scooter Libby is.
That is because MOST in America have been convinced by the conniving media that Scooter Libbey outed a CIA agent when that is not what happened.
“1,500 Americans were surveyed. Of them, 825 were familiar with the Libby case. Only those familiar were asked to react to the President’s action. 17% say Bush should have pardoned Libby completely. 60% say Bush should have left the judge’s prison sentence in place.”
In other words, most people either don’t care or support commuting his sentence.
Lying headlines as usual.
Of course. Where do they find these specimens to poll?
LOL! They took a poll that quick? I smell a rat... :)
Didn’t take long to reach that consensus.
This survey is bogus. Look at the numbers (there is a pull down menu in the lower left):
The breakdown came from 825 “adults” familiar with the case. Here is the breakdown:
Democrats: 334 41%
Republicans: 242 29%
Independents: 236 29%
These percentages are very skued to produce the result indicated in the original post. One person voting one way or another in such a poll can really change the numbers.
You’re right. W has a tough row to hoe for a three-peat.
Out of 1500 polled, 1327 were illegal invaders... as reid calls them, “undocumented Americans”!
LLS
In a word, less than a third of those polled condemned the President’s action.
LOL!
I gotta say......
I didn’t expect the MSM to say or do anything different.
How do ya get “most” out of 21%?
(No, I didn’t read the article, I just skimmed it. Don’t want to ruin my good mood!)
Oops, ignore my idiotic comment, please!
Anyway, this is bogus.
Good point. It’s just been a couple of hours, and I’m sure many haven’t even heard of it yet!
And I don’t recall ever seeing a poll asking what the public thought of the puny fine given to the former National Security Advisor, who stole highly sensitive documents and stuffed them in his socks and pants.
WGAFF?
I hope he pardons him before it’s all over.
According to that poll (as biased as it is) looks like Libby has a higher approval rating than Harry Reid!
Deed is done, opinions don’t count at this point … way to go Pres. Don’t agree … talk to the hand (or finger, as it were).
LOL! Lessee - nearly half weren’t familiar with the case and of the remainder it was 41% Democrats and 29% Republicans? How would anyone expect a poll like that to come out?
Most WHAT, you dopes? Didn’t call me. I don’t think he did enough for Mr. Libby.
I had an interesting experience tonight. I was driving over to my brothers and got the first call in on this topic on the Chris Plante show on WMAL in the DC area, and Plante is apparently on vacation with a sub filling in. I stated the view that Patrick Fitzgerald was a psychopath for wanting to send a man to prison for two and a half years for having a less than perfect memory and that, in President Bush’s place, I’d have gone on national television and announced that I was going to do what SlicKKK KKKlintler would have done and WELL Libby a pardon for $20, have Scooter hand me the 20 and use it to send out for pizza. Twenty dollars is about what I figure anything coming from Fitzgerald or this idiot judge is worth, tops.
If you don’t do the crime -— you shouldn’t face the time
Total crap. I would believe the number familiar with Libby if it was closer to 300 out of 1500. They must have taken this in NYC, DC and SF.
Wonder how many in this poll mistakenly think that Libby “outed” a covert CIA agent? Of course, he didn’t and the man who did is getting off scot free...but the msm made sure no one heard about that.
I think Bush should pardon the 2 Border Agents that were railroaded to prison!!!!!!!!!!!! Can’t make anybody any angrier.
I agree with you 100%. Have worked my fingers to the bone with emails to all Senators, members of Congress and the President about this.
Does it really matter anymore, he has what a year and a half left, and the 2008 candidates are already “distancing” themselves from him anyway.
Where do they get these polls?
Do they only poll Harlem?
Baltimore?
Prince Georges County Md.?
Guess they didn’t ask me!
I agree with commuting his sentence and a PARDON when the time is right.
Geesh, polling a bunch of liberals ... no surprise on the outcome ... .
Just like most people in USA agreed with the Shamnesty Bill.
Heh.
And of those that did know who Libby was, most would say he was that guy convicted of outing a CIA agent.
The general public is so oblivious as to what actually happened in that case, and the media didn’t help. At all.
The end conclusion of Fitzgerald’s inquiry was that no crime was committed. Something would have been brought against Armitage if it was. He had nothing. Nothing except a perjury charge against a guy named Scooter.
Lame in every sense of the word, but the Rats got out of it what they wanted.
“independents” = leftists too chickensht to admit what they are.
Most people don’t have a clue what this was about, except that Libby did something bad. Unless you read about it here or a few other places on the internet, there’s no way you would possibly know what the Plame affair and Libby conviction are all about, because the media lied their heads off.
The president did the right thing, and there’s no shame in taking a little heat for doing the right thing.
Polls buried by the MSM: Most people hate congress. Most people hate illegal amnesty. Most people are opposed to socialized medicine.
HOORAY President Bush!
Good job. Now get those two Border Patrol guys out. Their families don’t deserve to be ruined over a dope smuggler.
It’s probably one of Hitlery’s push-polling firms.
Terrible way to construct a poll. Anyway, among conservatives, 31% said the Pres. should have pardoned
31% Agree with Pres. That adds up to 62% of conservatives who do not want Libby to go to jail. How are the libs going to spin that as “a problem for Bush with Republicans?”
If we are truly dedicated to the idea of justice, then we need to look past partisan support.
A duly appointed judiciary, after hearing evidence in court, came to a conclusion and issued a verdict.
The president has the right to alter this, but the question is... should he?
I believe that true leadership is servanthood. I believe that our leaders have the obligation to uphold and be models of all that is best in humanity. When they fall short, which they will because they are only human, then I believe they should be held accountable.
The ideal has always been a law that is equal for all people, but this has never been the reality. The President absolutely has the right to commute Libby’s sentence. But by doing so, he loses the chance to lift up the United States as a moral example to a world living in darkness.
I would not be surprised “most” in this country do not know/care who Libby is to begin... most likely the poll question was loaded.
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