New Zogby Poll: Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping

[Clara T]

Zogby Poll: Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping

For Immediate Release: January 16, 2006
New Zogby Poll Shows Majority of Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping
By a margin of 52% to 43%, Americans want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge's approval, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
The poll was conducted by Zogby International, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,216 U.S. adults from January 9-12.
The poll found that 52% agreed with the statement:
"If President Bush wiretapped American citizens without the approval of a judge, do you agree or disagree that Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment."
43% disagreed, and 6% said they didn't know or declined to answer. The poll has a +/- 2.9% margin of error.
"The American people are not buying Bush's outrageous claim that he has the power to wiretap American citizens without a warrant. Americans believe terrorism can be fought without turning our own government into Big Brother," said AfterDowningStreet.org co-founder Bob Fertik.

http://www.democrats.com/bush-impeachment-poll-2

[Nutmegger]

1. WOO-HOO!!

What were the approval rating for Clinton impeachment? Somewhere in the 30's?
:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

[grytpype]

2. Let's see if the So-Called Liberal Media reports this.

The media have been supporting Bush long after the majority of the people have ceased to do so.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

6. Nah . . . they're at the Shrine of the Blessed Commode!

Great Blog!

[BikeWriter]

14. Eating shit...

[grytpype]

18. thanks!!!!! respek!

[Joanne98]

23. FAUX is saying 63% of Americans don't mind being tapped...

It must have been from their own poll.

[Wordie]

24. That poll has been debunked as faulty by Media Matters.

Media conservatives have been quick to cite flawed polling to suggest that the majority of Americans support the Bush administration's use of warrantless spying, as Media Matters for America has previously documented. Notably, MSNBC political analyst Pat Buchanan, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer, CNBC host Lawrence Kudlow, and conservative radio host Michael Reagan all referenced a December 28 Rasmussen poll -- showing that 64 percent of Americans believe "the National Security Agency be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States" -- to illustrate an alleged majority support for Bush's spy program. However, this poll did not specifically ask if the NSA should be allowed to wiretap without court-approved warrants, which is the main source of criticism of Bush's program.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200601090012

[donkeyotay]

28. If you talk to one of these idiots

tell them that no matter what they think, they don't have the right to give away your rights.

[bluestateguy]

3. Poorly worded poll

"If President Bush wiretapped American citizens without the approval of a judge, do you agree or disagree that Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment."

The poll doesn't say that Americans think he actually should be impeached, only that Congress should consider it. And then there is that word "if". The word if should not be used in polls. It just sets up too many hypotheticals.

Zogby needs to go back to the drawing board here.

[jobycom]

9. The poll was commissioned to get the answer they got, so the question

was deliberately as soft as they could make it.

Sad to see our side using the same tactics as theirs, but I guess I can understand it. Problem is, it proves nothing, and the media will rightfully refuse to cover it, since it is spin more than news. But it might give the Dems something to spin if they can get any momentum.

[NVMojo]

11. WAH!!!! I responded to this poll and I am happy with it.

[WCGreen]

13. Well the House has to consider the articles of Impeachment

and then the trial, after the impeachment resolution has passed, goes to the Senate and would be overseen by Chief Justice Roberts...

Impeachment in and of itself does not remove the president from office...

It is a step in the procedure to remove the president from office....

I think the question was worded as benign as possible....

[EVDebs]

21. A Republican House or a Democratic House ? nt

[Liberty Belle]

4. Kick! Nominate this one for greatest, please!

[Bozita]

5. THAT makes my entire weekend --- Many thanks

[fed-up]

7. YES!!!!! IMPEACH THE LYING SOB n/t

[f-bush]

8. Go for it!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wanted to impeach the bastard since January 20, 2001!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dutchdemocrat]

10. Anybody

Anybody following the scandal seriously should come by http://www.thisiswiretap.com for a peek.

I have been gathering data since the beginning..

Cheers

DD

[nicknameless]

12. Another Zogby poll: the Majority want * impeached if he lied us into war.

(Oct-Nov 2005 Poll)

http://www.impeachpac.org/?q=node/6

Two different polls, on different grounds, calling for impeachment.

[BikeWriter]

15. K&R#22

[stepnw1f]

16. Kick (nt)

[greiner3]

17. Good results! Now where are the NYT and WaPo's poll;

Asking the same type of questions?

[onehandle]

19. 2006 Democratic Congress = 2007 Impeachment. nt

[EVDebs]

20. Ollie North's Rex84 detention camps for dissenters and Alito.....

Samuel Alito was in the Reagan DOJ Office of Legal Counsel ... did he review and sign off on Rex84 ?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=144644&mesg_id=145682

Will anyone ASK ?

[stillcool]

25. I called my senator and asked about Iran/Contra..

and Alito's legal advice to the Reagan Administration. Complicit.

[zann725]

22. I got the poll, just never got around to answering it. Numbers could've

even been higher.

[Clara T]

26. kick for info

[sadiesworld]

27. I don't think the peeps give a crap as to the WHY of the thing...

they just want the f**ker OUT!!!!!

[AuntiBush]

29. I Didn't Participate

But, add me to that count... and everyone I know.

[SKKY]

30. Impeach Bush??? Why do you guys hate America so much???

;-) Gotcha!!!