Opposition to Syrian Airstrikes Surges

[kpete]

http://www.people-press.org/2013/09/09/opposition-to-syrian-airstrikes-surges/


also too:
You can sign Alan Grayson's petition against bombing Syria here:
http://dontattacksyria.com/

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Ok that explains some of the child like comments

we have seen here today.

[Catherina]

2. And making our voices heard. Congress has NO excuse for supporting this

and any Congress person who goes against the will of the people they were voted in to represent, needs to be voted OUT. Their job is to represent us, end of story.


Protester/Singers interrupt Tammy Baldwin at FightingBobFest (WI's annual celebration of Progressivism) and ask audience to "Stand Up if you oppose this war"

[L0oniX]

4. There is good reason to believe they would not listen to the majority...

...they certainly did not listen to the majority over gun background checks.

[Catherina]

8. Then they must be removed &replaced. They're a miserable fail, servants to corporate interests n/t

[starroute]

11. The gun thing was about members' fear of being primaried

I don't think there's any equivalent of the NRA that is prepared to go after members of Congress for voting against war.

[L0oniX]

3. K & R

[ehcross]

5. Are Americans at ease Amrwhile they watch syrian kids being murdered?

Syria is murdering their kids by burning them with chemical weapons. Do you feel at ease while watching this happening?

[L0oniX]

6. Newtown massacre ...congress ignores the majority. Do you feel at ease about that?

Welcome to reality ...and hypocrisy.

[leveymg]

7. Signed it - thanks for posting the link to Grayson's petition.

If Alan decided to run against Hillary for the nomination in '16, he now has my support.

[pampango]

9. "Republicans, in particular, have turned against Syrian airstrikes. ..."

Republicans, in particular, have turned against Syrian airstrikes. A week ago, Republicans were divided about evenly: 35% favored and 40% opposed military airstrikes in response to the government’s alleged use of chemical weapons. Today, Republicans oppose airstrikes by an overwhelming 70% to 21% margin, with 51% saying they are strongly opposed.

Opposition has grown among independents as well, with two-thirds (66%) now opposed, up from half (50%) last weekend. Today, 50% of independents strongly oppose airstrikes, compared with just 15% who are strongly in favor.

Currently, 53% of Democrats oppose military airstrikes against Syria while 35% support them; the margin is little changed from a week ago (29% favored, 48% opposed).

The declines in the "Don't Know" responses is interesting. For independents the DK declined by 14% and they basically all switched to Oppose. For Democrats the DK declined by 11% and they split with about half going to Oppose and half to Support.

The weirdest change was, of course, for republicans. Their DK declined by 15% also (all of whom switched to Oppose) but for some reason (and I doubt it is due to deep political thought ), another 14% of those who had been in Support a week earlier switched to Oppose. It might be that republicans reflexively supported the idea of bombing somebody but, after a week of listening to Rand Paul and remembering who the president is, came to their "senses".

[gopiscrap]

10. That's interesting because as I haer from those

who are in favor of attacking, that they are starting to win folks over.