Zogby Criticizes Cheney Use Of Zogby

Juan Cole 10/23/2003

Zogby Criticizes Cheney Use of Zogby Poll

The Zogby polling group did a sounding in Iraq last month, some results of which were trumpeted by US Vice President Dick Cheney in an interview, in which he alleged that most Iraqis supported a US style government. The true percentage who took that position? 23%. Zogby complains that there was lots of other bad news that the American Enterprise Institute glossed over or misinterpreted.

As you know, I don’t even think the poll was representative. Only one of the four cities sampled, Basra, was even Shiite, and East Baghdad was not consulted.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page