Walter Ego
Illuminator
This rather astounding statement was made recently on this thread in the politics forum. (I have italicized the weasel words.)
When asked to produce a source the poster came up with this Rasmussen Report from 2007.
(Rasmussen Reports is "an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information" and did not commission or conduct the poll. I cannot find any info on the Rasmussen page about where the poll came from.)
The title of the article was 22% Believe Bush Knew About 9/11 Attacks in Advance and the survey was of "likely voters."
The overall results on the 9/11 questions were:
For likely voters who identified themselves as democrats:
For republicans:
Which would leave 25% of the republicans "not sure" that Bush knew in advance of the 9/11 attacks.
From the data above about likely voters who identify themselves as democrats, our forum member adds 35 (sure Bush knew in advance) + 26 (not sure) = 61 and gets "61% of [democrats] thought at one time or another that 9/11 was an inside job." (Again I have italicised the weasel words.)
Note that "knew in advance" would be LIHOP at best and believing the Bush administration had intelligence about the impending attacks that was ignored is not the same as believing Bush knew about, planned or was responsible for an "inside job" that happened on 9/11. Also, using the same poll results and the same "logic," we could say 44% of all likely voters polled and 43% of republicans polled believed 9/11 was an inside job.
I can play the same get-creative-with-numbers game too.
From a recently commissioned poll of self-identified republicans.
So the majority (58%) of republicans are birthers.
So the overwhelming majority (76%) of republicans believe ACORN conspired (with whom?) to steal the election for Obama.
When asked to produce a source the poster came up with this Rasmussen Report from 2007.
(Rasmussen Reports is "an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information" and did not commission or conduct the poll. I cannot find any info on the Rasmussen page about where the poll came from.)
The title of the article was 22% Believe Bush Knew About 9/11 Attacks in Advance and the survey was of "likely voters."
The overall results on the 9/11 questions were:
For likely voters who identified themselves as democrats:
For republicans:
Which would leave 25% of the republicans "not sure" that Bush knew in advance of the 9/11 attacks.
From the data above about likely voters who identify themselves as democrats, our forum member adds 35 (sure Bush knew in advance) + 26 (not sure) = 61 and gets "61% of [democrats] thought at one time or another that 9/11 was an inside job." (Again I have italicised the weasel words.)
Note that "knew in advance" would be LIHOP at best and believing the Bush administration had intelligence about the impending attacks that was ignored is not the same as believing Bush knew about, planned or was responsible for an "inside job" that happened on 9/11. Also, using the same poll results and the same "logic," we could say 44% of all likely voters polled and 43% of republicans polled believed 9/11 was an inside job.
I can play the same get-creative-with-numbers game too.
From a recently commissioned poll of self-identified republicans.
So the majority (58%) of republicans are birthers.
21 + 55 = 76
So the overwhelming majority (76%) of republicans believe ACORN conspired (with whom?) to steal the election for Obama.
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