Encouraging polling on civil liberties - Greg Sargent, The Plum Line, Washington Post:
May 1, 2013 - "A new Post poll finds that a large majority of Americans, 70 percent, support the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnev.... But the ... Lindsey Graham-John McCain crusade to have Tsarnaev tried in a military court doesn’t appear to have exactly caught on.... Seventy-two percent of Republicans, and 71 percent of conservatives, support trying the suspect in the civilian court system....
"And that’s not all! A separate Time/CNN poll finds:
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May 1, 2013 - "A new Post poll finds that a large majority of Americans, 70 percent, support the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnev.... But the ... Lindsey Graham-John McCain crusade to have Tsarnaev tried in a military court doesn’t appear to have exactly caught on.... Seventy-two percent of Republicans, and 71 percent of conservatives, support trying the suspect in the civilian court system....
"And that’s not all! A separate Time/CNN poll finds:
When given a choice, 61 percent of Americans say they are more concerned about the government enacting new anti-terrorism policies that restrict civil liberties, compared to 31 percent who say they are more concerned about the government failing to enact strong new anti-terrorism policies...."A plurality of 49 percent — a new high – say they wouldn’t trade civil liberties for security. The effort by Graham and McCain to recreate those glorious post-9/11 anti-civil liberties atmospherics in the wake of the Boston bombings seems to have flopped."
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/05/01/encouraging-polling-on-civil-liberties/
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