NYC on the war

[Chuck0]

Michael Pollak wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Doug Henwood quoted a Newsday poll saying
> 
> 
>>Despite the opposition to war, only nine percent of New Yorkers said
>>they had written a letter, attended a demonstration or contributed
>>money in opposition to military action. Seven percent said they had
>>been active in support of military action, and 84 percent said had
>>not participated at all.
> 
> 
> That's a surprising stat, and would be disturbing if true and
> generalizable.  New Yorkers in this sample are against war w/out a
> resolution by 80/20, but active dissent only outweighs active support by 9
> to 7?  That would mean the other side is getting a phenomenal 35% of its
> people active while we're only activating 11 1/4%.  At these rates, if the
> country was divided 50/50, they'd beat us by 3 to 1 in terms of visible
> support.
> 
> Could that possibly be true, or is it just a spurious artifact?

Spurious artifact. A CNN online poll that was posted right after F15 showed a 
surprising number of people *nationally* had attended a protest.

Chuck0

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