Arthur Silber: Our Narcissistic, Self-Indulgent Public Polling

July 9th, 2005

Matt Taibbi:

Clearly, it’s that “pretty soft” other 40 percent that’s slipping. Those are the people I have a problem with, and it is with regard to those people that our polling system failed us two years ago and continues to fail today.

It seems fairly obvious that, in the course of the last few years, roughly 25-30 percent of the country has been influenced by the steady issue of news about increased violence and instability in Iraq. Apparently, a large percentage of Americans who supported the war two years ago have since become freaked out by the fact that, surprise, surprise, people are dying.