{"id":6425,"date":"2006-01-24T12:29:34","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T17:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6425"},"modified":"2006-01-24T12:29:34","modified_gmt":"2006-01-24T17:29:34","slug":"turning-against-warrantless-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/turning-against-warrantless-searches\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning against warrantless searches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gauging public opinion on Bush&#8217;s warrantless-search program has been tricky. The story broke over the holiday season when the public was less engaged and at least one oft-cited poll was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/6201.html\">worded so poorly<\/a>, it didn&#8217;t offer anything of substance to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>The latest <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2006_01_22_atrios_archive.html#113807151178525726\">poll from USA Today\/CNN\/Gallup<\/a>, however, not only offers useful data, it also points to an interesting trend.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new USA TODAY\/CNN\/Gallup Poll shows that 51% of Americans say the administration was wrong to intercept conversations without a warrant. The poll also showed that 58% of Americans support appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After about a month of public debate and news coverage, the public is still fairly divided, but a majority believe Bush went too far &#8212; and that number is growing as time goes on. According to this new poll, 69% of the country have been following this story &#8220;closely&#8221; (about a third said &#8220;very closely&#8221;), and the public isn&#8217;t on board with what they&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, a USA Today\/CNN\/Gallup poll found that 50% thought Bush has done the right thing with this program, while 46% thought he was wrong. Now those numbers are reversed.<\/p>\n<p>The White House obviously hoped for the opposite &#8212; the initial story would surprise people, but as the Bush gang started spinning, people would agree with the president&#8217;s message. This obviously hasn&#8217;t happened. Granted, this poll was taken over the weekend, before the president&#8217;s new &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2006-01-22-bush-spying_x.htm\">campaign<\/a>&#8221; on behalf of the NSA program began, but it&#8217;s not like the Bush gang has been sitting on their hands for the last month. The White House spin machine has been in full gear.<\/p>\n<p>Also, with 58% of the public supporting the idea of a special prosecutor to investigate the controversy, Dems have public support for a proposal that hasn&#8217;t generated much in the way of attention.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gauging public opinion on Bush&#8217;s warrantless-search program has been tricky. The story broke over the holiday season when the public was less engaged and at least one oft-cited poll was worded so poorly, it didn&#8217;t offer anything of substance to anyone. The latest poll from USA Today\/CNN\/Gallup, however, not only offers useful data, it also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}