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Polltroons

Somebody needs to tell these bumming Americans about these happy Iraqis.   

CNN — Americans are starkly less confident and proud of their country’s involvement in Iraq, according to poll results released Sunday.

However, the poll — results of which were released on the eve of the Iraq war’s 4-year anniversary — also indicated that Americans are no more worried about the conflict than they were when it began in March 2003.

The CNN poll of 1,027 adults was conducted March 9-11 by Opinion Research Corp. The sampling error for the poll is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

According to the results, 35 percent of Americans are confident about the war, the poll said. When the war began, 83 percent of Americans expressed confidence in the campaign.

Similarly, 30 percent of those polled this month said they were proud of the war, as opposed to 65 percent who expressed that sentiment in 2003.

The poll also showed that 33 percent of Americans are afraid of the war and 55 percent are worried by it. Those percentages are roughly the same as they were four years ago.

“Confident” and “proud” are a tad vague.  I’m not sure what they mean.  Earlier today a Brit poll explained to us that more Iraqis poll happier now than under Saddam. But the one I liked was six weeks or so ago, in which 63 percent of Americans said they want to “succeed” in Iraq.  That’s a verb.     

Topics: Iraq, media

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 2:01 am on Monday, March 19, 2007

3 Responses to “Polltroons”

1. saltydog Says:
   March 19th, 2007 at 3:55 am

   Had he known about such specimens, I’m sure Dante would have added a circle in hell reserved for those who gage truth and rightness by taking a poll.

2. Bill's Bites Says:
   March 19th, 2007 at 4:12 am

   2007.03.19 Iraq/Iran Roundup

   I’ll try to find time for some excerpts later. Go read these: Insurgents Resilient! Emdignant Polltroons

3. MikeH Says:
   March 19th, 2007 at 3:55 pm

   I’m past the point of believing in polls. I keep wondering about over sampled groups and wording of questions that guide responses. All polls are suspect now.

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