more on mmmm Interesting Harris poll: 24% of Americans still believe that 9/11 hijackers were Iraqis]

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Bill Williamson <batkiwi () happychinchilla com>
Date: January 2, 2006 2:22:36 AM EST
To: dave () farber net, brett () lariat net
Subject: Re: [IP] Interesting Harris poll: 24% of Americans still  
believe that 9/11 hijackers were Iraqis]

David Farber wrote:

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> Subject: Interesting Harris poll: 24% of Americans still believe  
> that 9/11
> hijackers were Iraqis From:    "Brett Glass" <brett () lariat net>
> Date:    Fri, December 30, 2005 1:56 am
> To:      dave () farber net
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> About 22% of U.S. adults believe Mr. Hussein helped plan 9/11, the  
> poll
> shows, and 26% believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when  
> the U.S.
> invaded. Another 24% believe several of the 9/11 hijackers were  
> Iraqis,
> according to the online poll of 1,961 adults.

According to an online poll put on by Time magazine, Richard Kyanka,  
creator of www.somethingawful.com, is the most influential American  
in history.  That was a poll with "random" respondants, and had over  
1 million responces.

Now, harris poll online is VERY interesting in that they poll people  
who register on their site as interested in taking surveys.  Unlike  
polling a random population as most polls do, this almost ensures  
that you are getting quite a number of people who simply are either  
"squeaky wheels," or are quite bored.  While I don't doubt that quite  
a few Americans still believe Saddam was behind 9/11, the result that  
24% of their respondants said that the hijackers WERE Iraqi, an  
easily disputed and well known non-truth, should put this entire  
poll's results in question.
Even looking at the polls own results: LESS people answering this  
poll believe Saddam has ties to 9/11 than believe that Iraqis were  
amoung the hijackers!  How is that possible, if the poll is anywhere  
close to reality?


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