New Florida Poll on Schiavo Case

[ryban]

Below are the poll results based on telephone interviews with 800 registered voters in Florida, aged 18+, and conducted March 18-20, 2005. The margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points.

1. Do you approve or disapprove of the Congress and President intervening in the Terri Schaivo case?

Support 33%
Oppose 64%
Undecided 3%

2. Would you want to be kept alive if you were in a state similar to Terri Schiavo?

Yes 13%
No 81% U
ndecided 6%

3. Do you support the decision to remove Terri Schiavo's feeding tube?

Yes 61%
No 30%
Undecided 9%

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http://www.strategicvision.biz/political/florida_schiavo_0322.htm

[Inland]

1. But the republican Congress isn't reacting to the majority.

It is pandering to the right wing extremists.

[magellan]

4. Yep, not a representational government anymore

Those who have the most influence and money to contribute to the regime get heard. Everyone else is shit out of luck in Imperial Amerika.

[FreedomAngel82]

7. Yep

They don't care about darn polls and being popular! :eyes: (A repuke told me this once on Bush and polls)

[ktowntennesseedem]

2. If the math is even remotely correct,

then this means that about 1/3 of those who voted for * last Nov disagree with what is being done right now. And since the numbers seem to be similar (if not even more opposed) across the country, there are quite a few folks questioning the actions (if not the sanity) of the current leadership.

I'd say the honeymoon is definitely over.

[JamboGuide]

3. BUT...

Its only for ONE issue as far as I See. Dont forget other polls that people had NO problem writing discrimination into the Const. for 2 men.

[tishaLA]

5. Social Security "reform" has almost exactly

the same numbers.

[DearAbby]

6. The shine is off the penny folks..the bank has sent an overdrawn statement

No More capital for Bush's Mandate. He and his Gop gophers have overstept their bounds.

[ktowntennesseedem]

9. Welcome, JamboGuide!

You're right, it's only one issue. But still a serious chink in the armor, and an obvious illustration of how much Chimp & Co. are in debt to the religious right. And every time they give ear to the right-wing over everyone else, more and more poll numbers are going to reflect softening support and growing dissatisfaction.

[CalebHayes]

8. Why couldn't polls like this but considered evidence thats she...

wouldn't have wanted to live. That if 80% of her peers would not want to be kept alive chances are she wouldn't either.

[jazzjunkysue]

10. I don't know which is more depressing: Their lies, or their stupidity.

They lost some followers on this one, for sure. The re-ugli-cans are 2 and 0 right now. This woman's gonna die, and then what will we talk about instead of Bush's anti medicaid budget and DeLay's indictment? Even martha's out of jail, and many people don't care at all about michael.