Iraq dominated the headlines throughout the fall of 2002 and into the winter of 2003. Public opinion on the wisdom of war, however, stabilized relatively early and slightly in favor of war. Gallup found that from August 2002 through early March 2003 the share of Americans favoring war hovered in a relatively narrow range between a low of 52 percent and a high of 59 percent. By contrast, the share of the public opposed to war fluctuated between 35 percent and 43 percent.

Looks like Americans are even more happy with murdering people if its done by a puppet.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/rally-round-the-flag-opinion-in-the-united-states-before-and-after-the-iraq-war/

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Ok cool. 1000 people who will answer a text message from unknown. Would you? Again, I know literally zero people who support Israel in this conflict. Got friends up and down the age spectrum, in and outside of the states.

So my poll says 100% of everyone I know wants this shit to end. Facebook, Twitter, insta, all on the same page here.

Somehow American polls always seem to be, ahem, skewed.

Look at those 538 predictions based on ‘polling data’ on the last several elections.

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So my poll says 100% of everyone I know wants this shit to end. Facebook, Twitter, insta, all on the same page here.

This is not how statistics works

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Look up i.i.d sampling please for the love of God.

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This wasn’t a random sample though

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Maybe not but I don’t see anything in their brief methodology section quoted above to indicate it wasn’t a random sample of mobile phone users. What makes you think it wasn’t?

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