--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <snip> > Judy, did you notice the dates of the polls you sited above? They are all in > January of this year, most within an 11 day period. The debate about this > matter went on most of the first half of the year. The poll I sited was the > latest I know of, dated May 11th of this year. The public certainly had more > time to become informed and is expressed in the Washington Post poll.
Ah, yet another excuse when the first one didn't turn out so well. What happened in the interim was that the administration and its Republican supporters had several months to lie about the issue and bury the "warrantless" part of it, making it seem as if wiretapping *per se* was what was in question. Dutifully, the Washington Post polled as if wiretapping *per se* was what was in question, without mentioning wiretapping without a warrant, so of course a majority approved, having forgotten that there was ever an issue over warrantlessness. Back when the issue was fresh, when the warrantless aspect was being reported prominently, before the administration and the Republicans had had a chance to confuse things, a majority was quite clear that they did not approve of warrantless wiretapping. There hasn't been an *honest* debate on this, just Republican lies and a compliant "liberal" media going along with the lies. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
