Poll Finds Swing Voters Critical of Bush on Iraq, Foreign Policy

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/oneworld/20030730/wl_oneworld/4536646271059562753

I hate posting polls but what the hell.

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According to the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), swing voters--people who consider themselves independent of both major political parties and very likely to vote in next year's elections--are considerably more critical of Bush's handling of Iraq and foreign policy than the general public and more likely to see the President as deliberately misleading the public about the reasons for the war.


Based on surveys overseen by PIPA and carried out by California-based Knowledge Networks, the report found that an absolute majority of independents now believe that both Bush and his administration were being misleading when they "presented evidence to justify going to war with Iraq."


By contrast, 42 percent among the general public said the administration was misleading, while only 36 percent of the same pool said Bush himself was misleading about the justifications for war.


Moreover, a similar majority of swing voters (52 percent) said that "the fact that the President presented information that was in fact false" lowered their confidence in the president some (34 percent) or a lot (18 percent). Only 40 percent of the general public, by contrast, said their confidence in Bush had been shaken some or a lot, according to the poll, conducted July 11-20.

Giving misleading testimony. Not Lying or perjury or any number of other exaggerated reasons but what it finally came down to was giving misleading testimony.

This election will be decided in the middle of the electorate.