The tide is turning. 57% regard Snowden as a whistle blower

[Luminous Animal]

and other good news for us patriots.

http://www.pollingreport.com/terror.htm

[dipsydoodle]

1. 1,487 voters.

[dionysus]

2. why do you stand in the face of progress, and denigrate the sweet bebe jesus?!?!!1!111

[COLGATE4]

3. Well, that makes it difinitive. nt

[NuclearDem]

4. That's kinda how polling works.

[Luminous Animal]

5. Proving you haven't a clue as to how polling works

[closeupready]

14. You flunked statistics?

Who knew.

[sabrina 1]

18. Okay, so whenthe next polls of 1000 registered voters say that the President has 88% support

from Liberals, we can use the little roly poly laughing guy.

I'm sure you know that polling doesn't involve calling over 300 million people, no?

And Snowden IS a Whistle Blower, I don't think we needed polls to know that anyhow.

Would you care to define what you view as a Whistle Blower?

[Blue_Tires]

6. I'd have thought the percentage would be much higher?

I have a hundred criticisms and twice as many still-unanswered questions related to how Snowden has conducted his campaign, and even I've always said he was a whistle-blower...

The only people I've ever seen *not* calling him a whistle-blower are a few congresscritters, some hack columnists, and PR flaks from the DoD....

[Luminous Animal]

9. You need to get out more often.

[Blue_Tires]

11. Are you asking me out on a date?

[Luminous Animal]

13. Only if you promise to wear a Glenn Greenwald mask.

[Blue_Tires]

15. And that is my cue to slowly back out of this thread,

close the door and never return...

[Warpy]

17. While I allow he was manipulated by people whose motives were less than pure

I also realize he did the right thing, even if it was for the wrong reason.

He's done a great service. I hope he's able to find a nice warm country to live in and the Feds never get their hands on him.

[Luminous Animal]

19. Yes. That Bart Gellman of WaPo is one sly operator.

[2banon]

7. interesting. It's a quinnipiac university poll, but seems to be a mixed bag

scroll down below the other polls and you'll find a mix bag of views pro or anti authoritarian, although that term isn't used, of course. low information citizenry, unfortunately.

[Luminous Animal]

8. Notice that the other polls were from months ago; thus the tide is turning.

[2banon]

10. good point, I did notice that too.

[Historic NY]

12. And still

46% say the release was mainly bad vs 40%

47% say Obama should not drop his pursuit of Snowdon vs. 39%

Guess that how polls work

[Tarheel_Dem]

16. No matter what you call him, Americans still don't think he should escape prosecution. You left....

that out. Only 39% think the government should not pursue him criminally. It could be that the American people have a problem with his "freedom" route. Those bastions of human rights, ya know like China & Russia? No matter what they think of him "blowing" his whistle, there's still some discomfort about what he may have "blown" to the Chinese and the Russians. That three day black hole where it's suspected he was holed up in the Russian consulate is a real bone of contention for many.

By the way, some real "whistleblowers" have a few questions for Comrade Snowden: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017165892