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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
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Subject: Nuke Statistics Suspect
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Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 16:21:21 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  3 16:21:21 1984
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Someone, I am trying hard to forget, threw a batch of statistics out that
purported to show that around 75 to 80% of the population favored a
nuclear freeze.  Then, in a later article t, they gave the approximate text
of the question that was asked in the poll.  The question was ( in as
close an approximation as I can ) " Would you favor a "verifiable"
nuclear freeze?"

Well, hell yes I would favor a verifiable nuclear freeze.  Wouldn't
anyone?  If anything, the poll may have erred in the wrong direction.
I would suspect that nearly everyone would want a freeze to be
mutually verifiable.  You can't use this type of poll to strengthen
any position on freezes.  Ask the question "Would you favor a nuclear
freeze without verification?" and see the answers.  I'll bet you
can't get a 30% yes vote on that one.

Don't quote polls that really have no meaning to them.  This one
has been tossed about for the past year or so and it still proves
only one thing.  That the American people would embrace a freeze
if it was mutually verifiable.  Otherwise, most of them are saying
"Go pound sand until it is."
T. C. Wheeler