Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Tale of Two Club Gitmo Polls

Well, this is rather interesting. Just Monday we saw a USA Today/Gallup poll that said America were overwhelmingly opposed to closing Club Gitmo.
Americans are strongly opposed to shutting the doors of the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay and moving terrorism suspects to detention centers in the U.S., according to a recent poll.

A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll released Tuesday found that those surveyed oppose the closing of Guantanamo by more than 2-1.

By more than 3-1, respondents oppose moving the detainees to prisons within the U.S., according to the poll.

Sixty-five percent of Americans polled said they do not support closing Guantanamo and sending its detainees to U.S. prisons while just 32 percent said they did support the idea.
Naturally this didn't receive much notice since it doesn't meet the Obama media template.

Well, now here comes a poll today claiming numbers completely at odds.
On Obama's plan to close the Guantanamo prison, 47 percent approve, while 47 percent disapprove. Again, the country is divided on partisan lines, with most Republicans disapproving and most Democrats approving. Independents are evenly divided.
Now which poll do you think will be touted more by Obama's adoring media horde?

The latter poll, reported by the Associated Press, is an Associated Press/GfK poll.

Nothing like AP creating their own news.

So rather than hearing Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to closing Guantanamo Bay, every news outlet in the country using AP reports will tell us we're evenly divided.

Nope, no media bias here.

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