[Vision2020] Commentary by Michael Costello of the LewistonTribune

[g. crabtree]

"19. Do you personally want the Iraq plan President Bush announced last week
to succeed?"

What exactly makes this a loaded question? It seems quite straight forward to me. It's not as though the question was framed in such a way as to beg any given response. "Do you want the plan to succeed or do you want to see children and puppies die?" now that's a loaded question. What I find odd is that any American of any political persuasion would answer the original poll question in the negative.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: "'Michael Costello'" <kozmocostello at hotmail.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Commentary by Michael Costello of the LewistonTribune


> FOX NEWS???
> 
> A professor at Washington State University is using Fox News as a "reliable"
> news source?
> 
> That poll is jam-packed with loaded questions. 
> 
> Question #19, the question referenced by Washington State University
> Professor Michael Costello, who relies upon it as stating that:
> 
> "A recent opinion poll revealed that only 51 percent of registered Democrats
> actually wanted the United States to win this war. More than a third (34
> percent) actually wanted failure and another 15 percent were uncertain."
> 
> 
> Question #19 from the cited source:
> 
> "19. Do you personally want the Iraq plan President Bush announced last week
> to succeed?
> 
> Yes No (Don't know)
> Democrats 51% 34 15
> Republicans 79% 11 10
> Independents 63% 19 17"
> 
> Judging by your application to this loaded question, Mr. Costello, it is
> also clear that 11% of the Republicans and 19% of the Independents want
> failure.
> 
> But then what would you expect from a group of people that have been exposed
> as nothing more than a contingent of campaigners for the Bush
> administration.
> 
> What are your thoughts, V2020?
> 
> Seeya round Town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
> and the REALIST adjusts his sails." 
> 
> - Unknown 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Costello [mailto:kozmocostello at hotmail.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 6:05 PM
> To: thansen at moscow.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: RE: Commentary by Michael Costello of the Lewiston Tribune
> 
> Read it yourself: question 19.
> http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/011807_foxnewspoll.pdf
> 
> 
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