--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: > > > > > > In a message dated 8/19/06 6:30:14 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > com writes: > > > > But that didn't come up, did it? > > > > As it was, it had one HUGE flaw with regard to the > > issue currently in the courts: It didn't even > > mention it. > > > > > > > > The poll didn't mention specifically warrantless wire taps but that > issue > > had been debated all Winter and Spring, even mentioning it in the > Democratic > > poll, so the public was quite aware of what was going on and still > 65% answered > > that they thought it was important enough even if it intruded on > their > > privacy. Only that hard core 30+% absolutely rejected any > intrusion of privacy. > > After all the poll clearly was about what was going on in the NSA, > not some > > fictitious scenario and the public has been very aware that > warrants were not > > being asked for or issued on incoming calls from terrorists. > > It is a *VERY* weak argument, verging on desperation, > to claim everyone who took the poll not only understood > that the question meant this or that when it was not > mentioned at all, but that they went ahead and answered > based on that purported understanding. > > Poll questions ask what they ask, not what you imagine > those polled mentally added to the questions. >
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