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Article #40Re: Americans' Support for War on the Rise
From: Byker
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 22:54
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 22:54
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FACE <AFaceInTheCrowd@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:hsp59vc8flir7t3j6hhbltn4iquubn6gs3@4ax.com... > Americans' Support for War on the Rise > > By Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writer > Monday, April 7, 2003; 6:40 PM > > As U.S. forces continue the battle of Baghdad, support for the war in Iraq > continues to rise. > > The latest Washington Post-ABC News Poll shows that 77 percent of Americans say > they support the decision to go to war, a figure that has increased as news of > the war turned positive. Just 16 percent say they oppose having gone to war. > > The support is not evenly distributed, however. More men support going to war > than do women; southerners are more likely to say they support the war than are > westerners. The more the population is broken down by category -- gender, > ideology, party, income or age -- the more those differences are apparent. > > Roughly half or more of every demographic group measured now supports the war. > Opposition rises above one-third among only two groups: African Americans > and liberal Democrats. Hell, you call THAT news? > Republicans almost universally support the decision to go to war. > Democrats are more divided, although nearly two-in-three Democrats now say > they support the war. Whites are far more supportive than are > African-Americans. That's because the niggers have this "shee-it, ah ain't dyin' for no pale muhfukkah" mindset...
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