Talk:NSA call database/Poll data
Public reaction
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|Organization |# polled |Margin of error | Date polled |# who disapproved |# who approved | News release good? |
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|Washington Post {{cite web | title =Washington Post-ABC News Poll | work =Washington Post-ABC News | url =http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_nsa_051206.htm | accessdate=2006-05-12 }} May 12, 2006 |502 | +/- 5% |May 11 |35% / 34%1 |63% / 66%2 |56%3 |
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|Newsweek {{cite web | title =Newsweek | work = | url =http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12771821/site/newsweek/ | accessdate= }} |1007 |. |May 11-12 |53% / 57%4 |41% / 35%5 | |
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|USA Today/Gallup {{cite web | title =Poll: 51% oppose NSA database | work =USA Today/Gallup | url =http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-14-nsa-reax-poll_x.htm | accessdate= }} | 809 | +/- 4% |May 12-13 |51% |43% |. |
1 35% do not support the program, 34% were bothered by the idea of the NSA having a record of their calls
2 63% of the American public supports the program, 66% were not bothered by the idea of the NSA having a record of their calls
3 56% thought it was right for the knowledge of the program to be released while 42% thought it was not.
4 53% The NSA's surveillance program goes too far in invading privacy, 57% In light of the NSA data-mining news and other executive actions the Bush-Cheney Administration has “gone too far in expanding presidential power"
5 35% think the Administration’s actions were appropriate, 41% The NSA's surveillance program is a tool to "combat terrorism"
These results were later considered inaccurate by further polls on the subject. {{cite web
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