seeing how this particular poll wasn't officially released, it's understandable that they wouldn't have disclosed their methodology. i'm sure it will come out eventually though. the quoted statement seems pretty revealing if you ask me:
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"If you are sitting here as part of the coalition, it (the poll) is pretty grim," said Donald Hamilton, a career foreign service officer who is working for Ambassador Paul Bremer's interim government and helps oversee the CPA's polling.
But he added in a telephone interview yesterday from Baghdad that "the truth of the matter is they have a strong inclination toward the things that have the potential to bring democracy here." |
there's your half empty vs. half full..
there have been several polls prior to this one (whose methodology was provided to the public) that have shown a trend of increasingly unfavorable views towards the occupation. so, it's not so very hard to assume that that trend would continue (especially after abu-ghraib).
the iraqis seem to think that things would be better if we just left. i agree with them.