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Sunday, April 03, 2005

Finally, A Believable Shiavo Poll

Never for a minute did the polls that showed overwhelming public support for Terri Schiavo's slow execution seem believable to me. Finally, we have poll that asked the right question, from the folks at Zogby who so mispolled the presidential election:
"If a disabled person is not terminally ill, not in a coma, and not being kept alive on life support, and they have no written directive, should or should they not be denied food and water?"
That's a much more accurate way to say it than did the famous ABC poll. Let's see if the response they got becomes as famous: 79 percent said the patient should not have food and water taken away while just 9 percent said yes.

h/t Powerline and Michelle Malkin, who links to a Johnny Dollar post that has Pat Caddell explaining the whole sordid push-poll thing.