U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee’s poll shows voters oppose Iraq supplemental

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from The Hill:



Lee’s poll shows voters oppose Iraq supplemental
By Mike Soraghan
October 10, 2007



A poll done for an anti-war legislator found that 70 percent of registered voters think President Bush’s $200 billion Iraq war supplemental spending request should be rejected or conditioned on redeployment.

“The president wants to pretend that Congress’s only choice is to provide the funds he has requested unconditionally or ‘cut off funding for our troops,’ ” Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) said at a press conference on Wednesday, the fifth anniversary of the House vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq. “That’s just not true. We can use our constitutionally mandated appropriations power to end his failed policy, to protect our troops and to bring them home. We have the power to fully fund redeployment, and that is what we must do.”

Lee, who was joined at the press conference by several other war opponents in Congress, used her leadership political action committee to pay for a poll of 1,000 adults, including 796 registered voters.

It found that, among all adults, 22 percent supported the president’s request without conditions, 24 percent supported voting against the funding, and 46 percent supported providing funding only for redeployment. Eight percent responded “don’t know.”

Among registered voters the numbers were similar — 23 percent supported funding the president’s request without conditions, 22 percent supported voting against the funds, and 47 percent supported providing funds only for redeployment. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/lees-poll-shows-voters-oppose-bushs-iraq-supplemental-2007-10-10.html

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1. A thousand respondents and a margin of error around three per cent?

She did it right!

:bounce:
rocknation

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2. Voters oppose the supplemental, favor SCHIP

Yet Congress will pass the supplemental and fail to override the SCHIP veto.

Tell me again about that "representative" government we're supposed to have?

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3. representation of and for the corporations..

amen.

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4. do you think support and opposition for various policies is evenly distributed?

Sadly, in many instances, members of congress are "representing" their constituents.