Interesting to see how the American public is reacting to this.

It may be that they are getting a taste of the new power of the religious right, and they don't like it.







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"This poll was conducted among a nationwide random sample of 737 adults interviewed by telephone March 21-22, 2005. The error due to sampling could be plus or minus four percentage points for results based on all adults. Error for subgroups may be higher. "

Really big sampling they have there.

Considering it's CBS News.....what? Most of the political polling samples I see are in the 500-1000 range, there isn't anything unusual about that.

There's bound to be some backlash when politicians overstep their bounds, particularly the egregious extra-constitutional stunt that was played out last weekend by the US Congress and this President. MfSD>>>>

Considering it's CBS news, who gave us 60 minutes and the "authentic" memos that were "true".

One story among millions, one report by a senior reporter who should have known better. I'm not excusing Rather's actions, but I note that he's no longer anchoring the CBS evening news. MfSD>>>>

If anyone should be treading carefully at this point, it's CBS news, after the Rather-gate fallout.

According to Fox News.... Bush's approval rating has slipped 7 points in the last week.

From 52% to 45%.

{grin} I was one of the ones that thought that Dan Rather was overly biased, but let's not forget that CBS in it's quest for ratings is the only news outlett that overlooks the facts.  Let's not forget Jayson Blair (is that the correct spelling?) at the NY Times who made up like half of his stories!!

Or Primetime live (ABC?) that put fireworks (sparkers) to show that gee, trucks w/ dual side gastanks can explode!

They are all guilty of it, it just appears that CBS has been more blantant about it.

IM-not so humble-O, the argument above misses the point.  

I don't debate that most people believe this is the republicans patronizing the religious right.  What I think is important is that, come election day, a large portion of those people will ignore this during the election and focus on issues more directly relevant to their immediate lives.

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The other night both Hannity and Scarborough had the same doctor on and stated repeatedly that he was nominated for a "Nobel Peace Prize" as a way to make him sound credible. Of course this doctor was on the side of the republican extremist position regarding Schiavo. Funny, though -- it turns out he was never nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Apparently some offial in Florida sent a letter to the Nobel comission asking that they CONSIDER nominating him -- which they never did. What's more he's had other problems with fraudulent claims in the past. In short, this doctor is a quack.

To my nowledge niether Hannity or Scarborough retracted or even corrected what they said about this guy. Now that is intentionally misleading the public because they now KNOW the facts about this guy because Air America has been exposing him for two days now -- yet still no retraction or correction...

My point is that Faux and many other right wingers in the media pull this kind of bull crap all the time and they never retract it. Why is there no outrage over this? I do not see anybody "steping down in shame" over the constant stream of misinformation these people feed the public day after day. At least Dan Rather said he was sorry even though what he was saying about Bush was TRUE!

speak to the issue of whether there will be political fallout over the Schiavo case?

I think that there may be a good chance that part of the fallout will be that efforts by Republicans to change Senate rules to speed up confimation of Bush judicial appointments will be hampered.

We'll see.

The GOP would suffer if they didn't win the Schiavo case. That there would be a backlash from the fundie right. The Bush core.

Funny thing. The Randal Terry faction has already started to beat up on the Bushes.

It's been said that you can forget about Democratic opposition to the Republicans. The real action will be when the 'Heinrich Himmler' faction of the Republican Party goes after the 'Albert Speer' faction.

If "the American People" percieves that "Republicans" are willing to use state powers to supercede indiviuals rights to make these types of decisions for themselves, they will lose support amongst those people.

I don't believe the typical American sees anything easy or clear cut about this. It's personal, it's cutting, it's gutwrenching to watch.

Anyone who thinks they've won "the moral highground" has a cannonball headed for their skull. I don't believe most Americans see there being even the possibility of anyone "winning" or of one side being "right". Most are just thanking God it';s not THEM who has to make this type of decison right now.

I see no victors, no villians. My only thoughts are "what is going thru the mind of this woman?" What is best for her.. The side fuss kinda makes me sad.

BK