impeachment polling. again.

* a new friend pointed me to this 2003 article by chris mooney questioning zogby's polling credibility/methods. for those of you too young to remember, here's RawStory, 2005:

"A defiant blogger (ed: ahem) has taken U.S. pollster John Zogby to task, saying he flip-flopped after stating he would survey the American public again on whether they thought President George W. Bush should be impeached."

This of course led to me and others raising $10k to commission a bunch of different polls on impeachment.

For example:

"By a margin of 50% to 44%, Americans want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003.

The poll was conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,001 U.S. adults on October 6-9."

and:

"By a margin of 53% to 42%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003.

The poll was conducted by Zogby International, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,200 U.S. adults from October 29 through November 2."

our goal wasnt really to get the data published so much in any push-polling sense, but rather to get the other polling companies to start their own polling on the question. They gave all sorts of weasely excuses why they wouldnt do it, and the corpmedia gave all sorts of weasely excuses about why they wouldn't publish the results of any of our polls ('we never publish independent polls' etc) - but then in March of this year the WSJ actually wrote about our efforts in an almost-reasonable manner and quoted two of our polls.

Considering the cold-shoulder that Feingold's censure motion received from his own fucking party - I guess we should be thankful (even though we didnt really achieve our mission of getting the corpmedia polls to bring the issue into the spotlight.)

I was happy with this graphic from the wsj - even tho the lede was completely mis-lede-ing.




i still call on responsible polling firms to ask the public whether they think GWB lied about war, and whether they think he should be impeached.

(hello rawstorians)