Poll: Vast Majority Of Americans Don’t Feel Their Civil Rights Are In Jeopardy
So much for Democrats attempts to campaign on the evil Bush administrations’ “wire tapping” and “domestic surveillance” record.
(CNN)—Most Americans do not believe the Bush administration has gone too far in restricting civil liberties as part of the war on terror, a new CNN poll released Thursday suggests.
While 39 percent of the 1,013 poll respondents said the Bush administration has gone too far, 34 percent said they believe the administration has been about right on the restrictions, according to the Opinion Research Corp. survey. Another 25 percent said the administration has not gone far enough.
Polls are polls and I don’t trust them much, but when the disparity is this large it’s pretty telling.
And, just for the record, that’s 59% of poll respondents in Bush’s corner on this issue.
I think it’s fair to say that most Americans are putting national security ahead of civil liberties absolutism.
