Legitimation Crisis Strong- Bush presidency judged as "not legitimate" by minorities, Dems.

Nathan Newman nathan at newman.org
Sat Dec 16 10:22:50 PST 2000


Well, vast majorities of blacks and large majorities of latinos and Dems in general apparently do not consider Bush legitimately elected to the Presidency. Not a bad basis for radical organizing - NN

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Released: December 15, 2000

New Reuters/NBC/Zogby survey reveals:

Bush presidency judged as "not legitimate"

by minorities, Democrats

Democrats and minorities in substantial numbers do not consider the

soon-to-be presidency of Republican George W. Bush as legitimate, a new

Reuters/NBC/Zogby survey reveals.

The survey was conducted Wednesday December 13 of 521 likely voters

nationwide who voted in the 2000 presidential elections showed that an

overall 59% of those surveyed called the Bush presidency legitimate with

37% who believe the presidency is not legitimate. Another 5% were

undecided.

The survey has a margin of sampling error of +/- 4.5%. (Percentages may

not add up to 100 due to rounding).

A strong majority of Democrats (65%) said the presidency was "not

legitimate" while 27% said "legitimate." Of the Independent likely

voters, 61% said "legitimate" and 34% said "not legitimate" compared to

92% of Republican respondents who said "legitimate" and 6% who said not

legitimate.

Three-fourths (77%) of the African American respondents deemed the

presidency "not legitimate" compared to 17% who said "legitimate." At the

same time more than half of the Hispanic respondents (53%) also termed

the presidency "not legitimate" compared to 39% who said "legitimate."

"If you define legitimacy as the will of the people, do you consider a

George W. Bush presidency legitimate or not legitimate?"

Not

Legitimate Legitimate Not Sure Total

Total 59 37 5 100

Dem. 27 65 8 100

GOP 92 6 1 100

Ind. 61 34 5 100

White 65 31 4 100

Black 17 77 7 100

Hispanic 39 53 9 100

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