http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x5619.xml
Do you support or oppose the United States having gone to war with Iraq?
Total White Black Hispanic
Support 50 63 40 49
Oppose 44 33 54 43
DK/NA 6 3 5 8
Which does seem to support Yoshie. On the other hand, the first national poll I pulled off Google (http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=179) for April 2003 gives
Decision to go to war was..
White Black Hispanic
Right 77 44 67
Wrong 18 44 25
DK 5 12 8
which shows that New Yorkers were substantially more likely than others of the same race to oppose the war.
Why would we want to emphasize the first set of facts rather than the second?
Josh
(sorry for the crappy formatting. Is there a good way to post tables to the list?)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 5:29 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Re: new yorkers, and the others
> frank scott wrote:
>
> >i'm a new yorker who's lived on the west coast for the past twenty five
> >years, and find both coasts have people who think they are the center
> >of liberal-progressive politics, enlightened, civil, rational thought,
> >while the rest of the nation has its head stuck up its collective ass...
> >only partly true, though i once believed it..
>
> Your gift for caricature aside, the immediate issue was measurable
> opinion on things like war. Here's an April 2003 poll of registered
> voters from the Marist Institute
> <http://www.maristpoll.marist.edu/nyspolls/030404iq.htm>:
>
>
> Do you approve or disapprove of how President George Bush is handling
> the war in Iraq?
>
> Approve Disapprove Unsure
> total 66% 30% 4%
> Upstate 76% 21% 3%
> New York City 50% 45% 5%
> Suburbs 71% 27% 2%
>
> Looking over comparable Gallup polls from the same time, the national
> averages were over 70% approval.
>
> Doug
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