public opinion

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Mar 21 09:27:59 PST 2003


[from the AAPOR list - no one seems to have correlated war support with the erroneous belief that SH was behind 9/11, but it's undoubtedly high]

It appears that a slight majority of those polled do believe that Saddam was personally involved in the 9/11 attacks

CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll. Latest: March 14-15, 2003. N=1,007 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3 (total sample).

"Do you think Saddam Hussein is involved in supporting terrorist groups that have plans to attack the United States, or not?" Form A (N=488, MoE ± 5)

Yes No No Opinion 3/03 88 9 3 8/02 86 8 6

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"Do you think Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the September 11th terrorist attacks, or not?" Form B (N=519, MoE ± 5)

Yes No No Opinion

3/03 51 41 8

8/02 53 34 13

The numbers are a little below an outright majority here:

CBS News/New York Times Poll. Latest: March 7-9, 2003. N=1,010 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3 (total sample).

"Do you think Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon?"

Yes No Don't Know

3/7-9/03 45 40 15

(These and many more are available at The Polling Report http://www.pollingreport.com/ )



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