Gallup To Release Poll On Torture Probe That Pundits Will Ignore

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http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/torture/gallup-to-release-poll-on-bush-prosecutions-that-will-be-ignored/

Gallup To Release Poll On Torture Probe That Pundits Will Ignore


This is some pretty amazing timing. At the moment when we’re learning the lurid details of the Bush torture program and discovering that Obama and the Senate Democratic leadership are cool to some kind of truth commission, Gallup is about to release a poll telling us where the American people stand on whether there should be a probe:

An official at Gallup confirms that the polling firm will be conducting a survey this weekend on criminal investigations into the Bush years. The survey, likely to be released on Monday afternoon, will provide one the first measures of public sentiment on this topic since Barack Obama suggested he would be open to an independent commission investigating the use of now-outlawed interrogation techniques.

Elizabeth Mendes, an associate editor at Gallup, says the survey will ask “how closely people have been following the news about this issue, if they think the techniques were justified, and if they think there should be an investigation.”

How will the D.C. media establishment greet the results? My bet: If majorities say they favor a probe, the news orgs will report the results and it’ll make a short term media splash. Then pundits will promptly forget the poll ever existed.

After all, when Gallup last polled the question in mid-February, fully 62% favored some kind of investigation, criminal or otherwise, into torture — and that was before the torture memos came out. And yet pundits still continue to claim that a probe is desired only by the “hard left.”

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1. I'll go on record as saying the 62% will climb to over 70%

Between the release of the documents and the Pentagon's admission that over 2,000 pictures of abuse exist and will be released, Americans (except for the 22%ers) will want to see justice done.