Is it really "push" or just the norm and how do you explain...
As i've said often enough in this thread, I don't think this is too bad and doesn't meet the criteria for push polling.That said, the questions seem to me to be about par for the course ranging from good to ambiguous to perhaps verging on "push" (a concession of sorts?) More interesting is the how do you expalin the divergence question.
Hard to answer with any degree of surety but I would hypothesize that
1. Most polls do not ask the question giving any kind of alternative. (In fact, I haven't seen any others that do so.)
2. This poll poses raises questions of outcome however inelegantly.
3. Other polls focus on the negative.
4. The election not only addressed the war but other issues as well.
None of these are definitive nor even necessarily correct. But they may offer a start at an answer to Tequila's question.
Marc's interesting observation
Marc
I missed that. Even with the caveat that the sample is of "likely voters" I don't recall 75% of likely voters being over 45 years old. So, there may be a significantly greater skew than I had thought.
John
Personally, I don't care what a poll says....
I know that we can accomplish something positive in Iraq. I don't care about any polls. What worries me is the collective loss of backbone of the American people. The lack of courage in our congress, and the lack of leadership from the White House. If we had a semblance of any of these three at the same time we would have set up the Iraqi government, trained their military and our troops would be back by now.