Thursday, November 03, 2005

[Polls]

Americans Don't Heart Leakers

This is pretty shocking: more people think the Valerie Plame leak is important than any other Washington scandal, including Watergate.

Overall, people finding the scandal important:
  • Plame Affair: 86%
  • Clinton-Lewinsky: 62%
  • Whitewater: 49%
  • Iran-Contra: 81%
  • Watergate: 78%
It shifts a bit when you break down the numbers for "great importance" versus "some importance"--the Plame link scandal sinks to second on the "great importance" side:
  • Plame Affair: 51%
  • Clinton-Lewinsky: 41%
  • Whitewater: 20%
  • Iran-Contra: 48%
  • Watergate: 53%
If you'd suggested this even a year ago, I wouldn't have thought it was possible--never mind two years ago when the story broke and seemed bigger than Watergate, but literally only a half dozen stories came out on it. Wow.
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2 comments:

eRobin said...

I think it's because even though there isn't a push in the corporate media to do so, people are getting the idea that this is all tied up with the lies they were told about the war. Plus nobody likes the idea of outing a spy.

9:01 PM
Jeff Alworth said...

All of that must be true--but I wouldn't have guessed it would result in these kinds of numbers. This could spell serious midterm trouble for the GOP.

7:33 AM

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