The Daily Background
| Poll: More Americans wanted Rumsfeld fired– not resigned
by Arlen Parsa
Here’s an interesting little discrepancy I just discovered while trawling Ye Olde LexisNexis. More Americans were rooting for the President to fire Donald Rumsfeld than wanted him to simply resign. In a CNN/OPR poll conducted last month, participants were asked the following:
Do you think Donald Rumsfeld should or should not resign as Secretary of Defense?
And:
Do you think President (George W.) Bush should or should not fire Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld?
48% wanted Rumsfeld to resign, whereas 52% wanted President Bush to actually fire him.
On a totally unrelated side note, who thinks that CNN’s polling partner has the lamest name ever? OPR- Opinion Research Corporation? C’mon… That’s so utterly generic. Of course, we’re talking about CNN here (Cable News Network), so I guess it isn’t that surprising that they’d partner up with another org that has an ultra-generic name. Either that, or all the polling groups with cool names (like Rasmussen, Zogby, Pew, Ipsos, Gallup, Quinnipiac, etc) were already taken.
