Poll: Many say U.S. deeply divided

[ckramer]

WASHINGTON — Americans came out of the presidential election believing the nation is deeply divided on values and important issues, but they have a slightly more favorable opinion of President Bush and his top advisers and feel slightly less pessimistic about the situation in Iraq.

A USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll conducted this weekend found that 65% of Americans say the country is "greatly divided" about the most important values, and 72% say people are more deeply split on major issues than at any time in recent years.

USA Today

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. and it will stay divided with the extremist REICH WING in power!

[saigon68]

5. You mean the Extreme Right Wing Taliborn Again Nut Jobs???

That Bunch??

[Solitaire]

2. Doh!

It took a poll to figure that out?

[Moloch]

3. Ya Think?

George W. Bush is a uniter not a divider...

[Demeter]

14. I Think He Meant Un-tie-er

Dyslexia, doncha know.

[lasttrip]

4. wow! thanx for the update. i must get out more often. nt

[MatrixEscape]

6. Amazing news! Who'da thunk it? n/t

[SoCalDem]

7. "...but they have a slightly more favorable opinion of President Bush..."

I call HOGWASH !!!

Just another puff piece that's supposed to "soothe" us into thinking everything will be ok..and that we should all just settle down and quit fighting it..

Vaguely reminiscent of the old script where the rapist tells the victim to "calm down, and relax". :puke:

[cubsfan forever]

8. Well, it IS a

Gallup/USA Today/CNN clusterf**k poll. You know, where the combined IQs of the pollsters and participants equals 97? I am convinced people have to take an idiocy confirmation test before employment at those institutions. tell us something we don't already know! :puke:

Professor 2

[Wright Patman]

9. USans are not 'reality-based'

In fact, more than 100 Americans have died in Iraq since the election so there is absolutely no reason to feel more optimistic about the situation there.

The Fallujah offensive may have been portrayed as a success and people may well believe that fantasy, but in reality it did more damage to the cause and the "insurgents" merely shifted operations to Mosul, Ramadi and elsewhere.

[MaineDem]

10. What a newsflash!

Let's hear it for great reporting!

:eyes:

[NYC Liberal]

11. The country is divided

Except on whether it's divided.....

[fishface]

12. Gallup...those denisens of fairness..

"We'll poll 7% more republicans and get the results we want"

[LynnTheDem]

13. And there;s the ignorant "51%" again.

51% think invading & occupying Iraq2 was the right thing to do.

Well let's see:

-Iraq had NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the 911 attacks.

-Iraq had NO TIES to Al Qaeda or any other international terrorist organization.

-Iraq was NOT a "humanitarian intervention"; ICRC, AI and HRW all say the invasion CAN NOT be called an intervention, there were NO ONGOING ATROCITIES, and when we toss in Abu Ghraib and 100,000 Iraqi civilians killed, calling bush's invasion a "humanitarian intervention" is the height of ridiculous.

-98% of the Iraqis view the USA as INVADERS, and NOT as liberators. Their opinions don't count, of course.

-Iraqis were always free to JUST LEAVE Iraq if they didn't like their government. Funny how often the freeping assholes chant that to Americans, yet not to the Iraqis. There never was a chained fence around Iraq, morans; notice how bushCartel are always screaming about Iraq's OPEN POROUS BORDERS???

-Iraq had NO WMD since 1991. Something we easily could have learned if bush hadn't kicked the UN weapons inspectors out of Iraq. All they wanted was 90 days to finish their work, but bush said nope, get out. And $200 billion and 1230 American lives (and 100,000 Iraqi lives) and world disgust later, bush's pet US weapons inspectors both report NO WMD SINCE 1991.

-Iraq was NO THREAT to anyone, let alone the USA, and was NOT IN VIOLATION of any UN resolutions, even supposing the USA suddenly has the right to decide which & how UN Security Council resolutions will be enforced by ignoring the UN Security Council's own decisions on the matter. When will bush be enforcing some of them 98 UN SC Resolutions against ISRAEL?

So just WTF do these incredibly ignorant & stupid as fcking dirt asshole 51% think was RIGHT about invading & occupying a nation that hadn't done a damned thing to anyone???

Oh that's right...that 51% = bush supporters, and they're all so stupid & ignorant they still think Iraq did 911 & had WMD.

[donheld]

15. Who really needed a poll to detemine this

we just had a poll November 2 that proved this. Of course most of us here at DU knew it before Nov 2

[aikanae]

16. Bush has control of information - no more whistleblowers allowed

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/arts/21rich.html?oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=

New Casualty: 'Private Ryan'
As American soldiers were dying in Falluja, some Americans back home spent Veteran's Day mocking the very ideal our armed forces are fighting for ­ freedom. Ludicrous as it sounds, 66 ABC affiliates revolted against their own network and refused to broadcast "Saving Private Ryan." The reason: fear. Not fear of terrorism or fear of low ratings but fear that their own government would punish them for exercising freedom of speech.

Even without being threatened, American news media at first sanitized the current war, whether through carelessness or jingoism, proving too credulous about everything from weapons of mass destruction to "Saving Private Lynch" to "Mission Accomplished." During the early weeks of the invasion, carnage of any kind was kept off TV screens, as if war could be cost-free.

[Gregorian]

17. The only division is between those who think and those who don't

And those who think are really sick and tired of the idiots fucking everything up.
Period.
That's it.
No further investigation needed.
The walking dead are walking all over us, and we are pissed.