Monday, March 24, 2003

Fuzzy math at the Washington Post

InstaPundit passed this off with a "interesting stuff", but you would think he, or the Washington Post would have been a bit more...curious, about these results. The Poll:

Six in 10 agreed that the demonstrations were a sign of a healthy democracy, while fewer than four in 10 said opponents should not demonstrate against the war because it was better for the country to appear united. Only one in six said such protests should not be permitted.

"I have a hard time seeing people protest the war," said Ted Stahl, 40, a metalworker who lives in Jasper, Ga. "I don't have problems with people having the right to voice opinions. But people live in the U.S., a great nation of freedom, and they mock our nation's freedom and our government."

Overall the survey suggests that few Americans have attended anti-war demonstrations (2 percent) or rallies in support of the war effort (1 percent).

Wait a minute. I'm hearing estimates of anti-war crowd counts of 50,000 to 200,000 in places like New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington. Where has there been a war rally that has exceeded the 14,000 in Indiana? You can add up all the rallies in places like Bent Bucket Ga. you want, but you would be hard pressed to come up with 50% of what has been at the anti-war rallies.