NYT: Polls recover from Powell speech

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Fri Feb 14 08:24:03 PST 2003


I think support means that people think that he is forcefully standing up to "terrorism." A great PR success story.

On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:20:00AM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Curiously, this poll shows more people disapproving of Bush's foreign
> policy than approving. Since the war is the centerpiece of his
> foreign policy, what does this mean? I suspect there's a lot of
> confusion and thinly held opinion around Iraq - people have been
> propagandized into thinking Iraq is a problem but don't know what
> exactly that means or what to do about it. And of course, direct
> questions always excite the patriotic reflex to support the troops.
> But the broad aggressively imperialist posture doesn't seem to have
> passionate popular support.
>
> Doug

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