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"Pew: Majority Of Americans Support NSA Phone Tracking
by Eyder Peralta June 11, 2013 8:53 AM
We're a little late noting this poll, but it's important so we're backing up a bit: A Pew poll released Monday finds a majority of Americans — 56 percent — think the National Security Agency's tracking of phone records "is an acceptable way for the government to investigate terrorism."
Forty-one percent say it is unacceptable."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/11/190638738/pew-majority-of-americans-support-nsa-phone-tracking
It’s all how the questions are asked.
When you consider everything that is going on in what has become a de facto police state, I do not believe any poll. Period.
I think the Pew Poll’s EMPHASIS was different. They asked the question about whether people support NSA tracking phone calls to HUNT FOR TERRORISTS.
They DID NOT ASK whether people support Government secretly collecting phone records of ORDINARY CITIZENS.
See the difference in emphasis?
when you mention terrorists, everybody SUPPORTS it. When you simply mention collecting phone records of ordinary Americans, people OPPOSE IT.
I’m never sure about Rasmussen. His might be the Dick Morris of polling outfits (without the toe fetish).
Over a decade ago, when I answered my phone and participated in surveys, two patterns with Pew polls emerged.
1. They called during normal working hours. I was doing evening consulting and was around during the day. So republicans working during normal working hours would never get a call.
2. Often when they found out that I was a republican. They would say goodbye and hang up.
#1 and #2 were confirmed with other retired republicans, when I asked if this was happening to them.
It might be an “acceptable way for the government to investigate terrorism” but that’s not what they’re doing.
Washington Post = Operation Mockingbird.
Of course they would help the intelligence community advance a cover story or disinformation. And every honest person knows that polls reported in the press are designed to shape opinion, not measure it.
These surveys are made over the PHONE. So they ask you over the phone if you object to the government listening to you over the PHONE. Those with a bit of paranoia are going to answer NO, I DON’T OBJECT master as I bow down in abject submission.
Perhaps somehow the NSA couldn’t get to the WaPo poll in time to alter it?
Well, yeah. The Pew Research Center is a subjective, lefty outfit, and NPR is Hillary’s baby. Several other surveys have shown that most of us Americans are against illegal and unconstitutional surveillance, although we already know that. Only the political/regulator chattering class is in favor of it, because they hope to get more pecuniary benefits and political control from the practice.
Another reminder here about the ski resorts and other, similar areas bristling with Obama signs a few years ago. They buy the candidates they want and present their chosen array of candidates to us. No good men like Duncan Hunter allowed.
the post poll says “tracking”
the rasmussen poll says “spying”
more people are opposed to spying than tracking.
LIKELY VOTERS VS chitown democrats and san fruitcisco gaylords in the P-U poll!
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Glad to see this poll. I was disheartened about that last Pew/WaPo poll.