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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 08:36 AM
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Almost Half of Americans Expect Terrorist Attack in 2006

http://poll.gallup.com/content/?ci=20773

Almost Half of Americans Expect Terrorist Attack in 2006
Still, few are "very worried" they will be victims

GALLUP NEWS SERVICE

PRINCETON, NJ -- Almost half of all American adults, 45%, believe it is likely the United States will suffer a terrorist attack in 2006, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup survey, conducted Dec. 16-18. A bare majority, 51%, thinks such an attack is unlikely.

Although many opinions related to terrorism and the war in Iraq are highly related to people's partisan orientation, in this case there are only minor differences between Republicans and Democrats, with independents being the outliers. By 62% to 37%, independents believe an attack is likely, while majorities of Democrats and Republicans say an attack is unlikely.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 08:39 AM
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1. we've become a culture of paranoids
locked behind steel gates, muttering to ourselves about the 'next attack', and protecting ourselves from all the 'terrorists', by terrorizing other countries.

How we got from Land of the Free and the Brave to Land of the Perpetually Paranoid is something historians and sociologists will debate for decades, but I think you could boil it all down to two words: "American Idol". :puke:
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Cyrano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 08:39 AM
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2. We've been under terrorist attack from the White House and the
Republican congress for five years now.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 02:19 PM
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17. That's the truth!
And who the hell is protecting us from them?
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 08:40 AM
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3. So, now we expect terrorist attacks during election years?
Sounds about right. :eyes:
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abluelady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 09:27 AM
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6. We Have A Winner. Ding. Ding. Ding.
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 10:48 AM
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10. Makes sense to me!
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 08:44 AM
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4. Same fools that think the First Doofus is protecting' them, I'll wager
Americans are such cowardly twits...really embarrassing people.
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seeminer21 Donating Member (98 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 05:57 PM
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19. Hey
Are you American?
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orion9941 Donating Member (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 09:19 AM
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5. Wasn't it also discovered in the last census..
...that about half of all Americans beleive in aliens?
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 10:00 AM
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7. That was not a Census 2000 question.
I worked on the Census in 2000. Census questions are demographic in nature and are not opinion oriented.

BTW, at least 50% of the voting population are too lazy too vote or simply don't care. Of those who do vote, at least 25% would follow Bu$h* off a cliff if he asked them. Fools.
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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 10:38 AM
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8. bush is the biggest terrorist on the planet and
I expect him to do something to stop the elections in November. Is that what they mean :shrug:
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area51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 11:22 PM
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22. stop the election?
Why bother? The nazi party writes the closed-source software for the voting machines of Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia, etc.
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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 12:11 AM
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24. I'm hoping they'll fix the code in time
and besides, * likes to make a splash..."shock and awe" the world. He'd like to quarantine us, mandatory injections,finish us off and set the world right for Jesus.
But in truth, you are pobably right...they'll just steal as blatantly as both 2000 and 2004...after all, we don't care enough to do anything about it. We whine and nibble cheese (no, I'm NOT slamming the French...sounds like it though, doesn't it?) But really, when are we going to do something?
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stop the bleeding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 10:41 AM
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9. I thought America was safer - why would people think this??
:sarcasm:
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sarcasmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 12:44 PM
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11. I Recommend this because it will happen prior to the 06 elections.
Edited on Mon Jan-09-06 12:47 PM by sarcasmo
IMHO, late summer their will be TERRA. Whether the TERRA be bird flu or another major attack it will happen. We have learned if anything form MR Danger that he uses fear prior to the elections.
Remember all of the fake TERRA alerts prior to the last election. I feel MR Danger will ramp up the fear in the form of a bird flu outbreak prior to the election.
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Realityhack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 12:50 PM
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12. Strange split
Very interesting partison line split. Wonder what that means.
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Ezlivin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 12:52 PM
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13. Why not? They've primed us for a biological/nuclear attack for years
The PNAC said we needed a "New Pearl Harbor" before we could go to war with Iraq.

Got it.

The same folks have warned us now for the past four years of a major biological/nuclear attack.

Who has both weapons ready to go?

I'm just providing the dots. You have to connect them.
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Voltaire99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 01:58 PM
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14. How does this correlate with the death-lust of the Raptureniks, I wonder?
Do not forget: a great many Americans are looking forward to Leaving You Behind.
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killbotfactory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 02:03 PM
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15. Only if Bush lets it happen, again
They'll probably just flood the airwaves with warnings about one.
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maxsolomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 02:08 PM
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16. 45% of American Adults are fucking idiots
keep buying that family-size, new & improved Fear (insert trademark symbol).

i refuse to be afraid if the overwhelmingly improbable. all day long i see the coast guard tooling around elliot bay with their zodiacs mounted with machine guns. its a waste of time & money.
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 03:09 PM
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18. Blatant fear-mongering from Gallup...why am I not surprised?
Edited on Mon Jan-09-06 03:09 PM by mcscajun
The headline is bass-ackwards.

51% think such an attack unlikely...so if there's a story here at all, the headling should be:
Over Half of All Americans Think Terrorist Attack Unlikely in 2006

Not much of a story though, is it? Neither is the one they generated.
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pinniped Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 06:06 PM
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20. Oh no!...maybe I should cancel my trip to LV.
LV is on Robertson's rapture list, right?
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Catfight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 06:12 PM
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21. Not until Bush/Cheney order another one. nt
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 11:38 PM
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23. Is that parallel with *'s popularity rating?
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