Poll: Concern For Global Warming Up, In Spite of Gore's Unpopularity

Click here to read more.

Little Lord Pissypants had to steal the presidency from him, using daddy's cronies on the Supreme Court to accomplish his goal

The corporate media sucks, the Wall Street Journal doubly so.

in 2000. The numbers are pretty straightforward. The conservative noise machine has made a serious, and long-term, dent on the way people view Gore.

When the average American thinks of Gore, they think of the stereotype. Gore the liar. Gore the exaggerator. Gore the stiff. Gore the sore loser. Gore the ranting anti-war speaker. It's easier to hold onto those stereotypes, especially when they are thrown out over and over by the Hannitys of the world.

is that he can't go around saying "I told you so," even if he should.

What might work is for the Dems to win the presidency without him -- the Edwards/Warner ticket I'm hoping for -- and then have Gore be in the cabinet, maybe as Secretary of State or some such.

just recent. Who's poll, how many people, etc. Sounds like shit to me. :shrug:

It goes to the OP's blog in which he/she has broken down the info.

"A new poll found that although Al Gore's popularity remains modest, more Americans are concerned about global warming -- the issue he brought back to the front burner in the new documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, conducted June 15, found that 59% of Americans said either that global climate change is "a serious problem, and immediate action is necessary" or "climate change is taking place and some action should be taken." That' s up from 51% the last time the question was asked, in 1999.

Should Gore be given full credit for this uptick in concern? No. More scientific data has become easily accessible on the Internet. Other politicians and pundits have written and spoken about it, especially after last year's tsunami in Southeast Asia and the series of hurricanes striking the Gulf Coast, including Katrina. But no doubt the documentary, and the lengthy news coverage and pundit debates surrounding it, have crystallized many Americans' views on the question.

The poll also found that 28% of Americans believe more research should be done before any action is taken, and 9% felt "concern about global climate change is unwarranted." Those numbers are each down from the 1999 poll."

Link to poll: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/poll20060615.pdf

had been a more logical "Should Al Gore be given any credit?" Full credit discounts the work of the scientists that have studied this issue and tried to warn us about it. It's just spinning the same slanderous frame work they used against him regarding the internet. They could never bring them selves to give the man any credit for his achievements in that regard either. If the MSM decides to trash and slander anybody, their negatives will go up, however just because the MSM decides to sell their soul it does not inspire me to do like wise.

Also if 28% of Americans believe more research should be done before any action is taken, that means a whopping 72% or close to it believe otherwise, and if 9% believe it's unwarranted that means boys and girls, close to 91% believe it is warranted. I would also be willing to bet the vast majority of the 28% and 9% are neocons and would never vote for most any Democrat anyway.

Oddly enough the only time Bush to my knowledge has done anything positive for the environment, turning part of the pacific ocean northwest of Hawaii in to a national monument (announced just yesterday) in over 6 six years happened just as Al's movie "An Inconvenient Truth" started taking off after it's third week coming out.

It asked if global warming was a problem or not. separately, it guaged gore's popularity.

I was saying on my blog post that Americans like Gore's issue, even if they don't like Gore.

The poll itself didn't ask if Gore should be given credit for their raised awareness or concern regarding global warming.

on edit: I see it's an NBC/Wall St. Journal poll. That explains a lot of the "Gore unpopularity" thing.

I get so freaking sick of hearing that. I had a friend of mine use it yesterday. That's all they can do, recite bogus shit.