2007-11-14

Impeaching Bush?

From the department of lies-damn-lies- statistics-and-very-confusing-poll-summaries:
A total of 64% of American voters say that President George W. Bush has abused his powers as president. Of the 64%, 14% (9% of all voters) say the abuses are not serious enough to warrant impeachment, 33% (21% of all voters) say the abuses rise to the level of impeachable offenses, but he should not be impeached, and 53% (34% of all voters) say the abuses rise to the level of impeachable offenses and Mr. Bush should be impeached and removed from office.
So, did you get that? 53% of people reckon that Bush should be impeached. That's what this latest survey said, right? No. It said that 34% of voters want Bush impeached. The figure of 53% is a grammatical furphy. Basically, of the people who think Bush has committed impeachable offenses, 53% think he should be impeached.

Some[citation needed] in the internetospheres are saying that this poll says that 53% of people want Bush impeached. Der.

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