Despite spill, most Americans back offshore drilling

[Elmore Furth]

WASHINGTON, June 16, 2010 (Reuters) — Most Americans still support offshore drilling and believe it is critical to making the U.S. competitive, despite the growing oil spill along the Gulf coast, a new poll showed on Wednesday.

In a national survey of 522 adults, on a scale of 0 to 10, the average show of support was 6.3 when asked if the government should allow offshore drilling.

Not surprising, the response was higher among Republicans, 7.8, compared to 5.4 for Democrats

Republicans again agreed more with a response of 8.2 than Democrats who averaged 5.8.

Despite spill, most Americans back offshore drilling

[flvegan]

1. In other news, "most Americans" are idiots.

[Jefferson23]

2. Maybe I missed it, but I did not see the poll questions listed in full.

I am curious about the details etc.