yup, polls are relevant. But whatever happened to old-fashioned analysis of the social structure to figure out where the stress points are?
On 12/11/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
According to the latest poll, 60% said they favor "a six-month timeline for withdrawal" (Nancy Benac, "AP Poll: Few Expect Victory in Iraq," 8 December 2006, <http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6266792,00.html>). 60% is a solid majority. Compare that with polls on abortion: <http://www.pollingreport.com/abortion.htm>. It looks like a plurarity of Americans are to the left of Christian fundamentalists but to the right of pro-choice leftists, favoring stricter limits on abortion without going so far as to wish to ban all abortions.
a lot of this represents a recent shift due to the growing power of the Christian Wrong, rather than being a permanent feature of the US political terrain. -- Jim Devine / "Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." -- Bertolt Brecht
