The Silent Majority, The Talking Majority
(Crossposted from the American Constitution Society :: Columbia Law School)
Over at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Herbert Klein believes that "the so-called silent majority supports the President" in his efforts to wiretap Americans without benefit of a FISA warrant.
Where is this silent majority? Not answering public opinion polls, apparently.
The old news is that Bush's approval rating has returned to 36%. Also old news is the now-discredited claim, made by the Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes, that public opinion shows "support" for the NSA's warrant-free spying program.
The new news comes from Zogby's polling. 52% of Americans surveyed responded with I agree when asked this question:
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?Granted, that's a particularly biased way of phrasing that question, and considering impeachment is not impeaching.
Still, almost 1 in 3 (29%) of surveyed Republicans (76% of surveyed Democrats, 50% of surveyed Independents) and a majority of surveyed Americans answered in the affirmative.
Not happy numbers for a President on the eve of his State of the Union address.
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1 comment:
I do love when you post statistics like this. What I'd like to see is a poll of economists asking the question, "To what degree do you think that the Bush administration's tax cuts have been a benefit to the economy."
I have some idea what Duke's economists would say, but I don't trust the snot they blow at the moment.
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