Poll: Opposition to Iraq war at all-time high

Opposition among Americans to the war in Iraq has reached a new high, with only about a third of respondents saying they favor it, according to a poll released Monday.

Just 35 percent of 1,033 adults polled say they favor the war in Iraq; 61 percent say they oppose it -- the highest opposition noted in any CNN poll since the conflict began more than three years ago.

Despite the rising opposition to the war, President Bush said the U.S. ... Full Story »

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Janice Dodge
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by Janice Dodge - Oct. 1, 2008

This story reports one CNN poll, mainly by adding together the responses of individuals participating in the poll and presenting the total as percentages. Several times, the authors characterized the poll result using terms like "most" Americans or "tepid" poll numbers. for me, the word "most" does not accurately characterize the 54% of Americans to which it refers. When one actually looks at the poll results, the responses don't seem to have changed much in the last 4 months, and thus the main inference of the article seems off base.

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