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Originally posted by sacX
ABC News have 29% supporting a war without the UN weapon inspectors finding WMD.
oh yeah and as for the President less than 50% of people voted for him :-)
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In fact there are many pollsters and different polls present different results. The polls can be biased, and in fact are, depending on who the pollster is and/or who is paying for the poll and/or what questions are asked and in what form they are asked and/or if it is a scientifically statistical oriented poll.
In most, if not all elections, a relatively small percentage of people vote, so politicicans always receive less than half of the peoples vote. In Presidential elections, because of the electoral system, Presidents can be elected without recieving a majority of the popular vote. If I recall correctly when Bill Clinton was first elected he received less than 50% of the votes cast. Non the less it is the votes of those people that care enough to follow events and have an active interest in the outcomes of elections that elect the people to positions in government, be it city, county, state or federal. This is the way of our system and always has been.