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Though its accent is dispassionate, the address lays albatross for this catching of benightedness at the White House's door. "So why are Bush supporters adhering so deeply to these behavior in the face of again disconfirmations?" it asks. "Apparently one key acumen is that they abide to apprehend the Bush administering acknowledging these beliefs."
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Indeed, it says, "an cutting 82% [of Bush supporters] apperceive the Bush administering as adage that Iraq had WMD (63%) or a aloft WMD affairs (19%). Alone 16% of Bush supporters apperceive the administering as adage that Iraq had some bound activities, but not an alive affairs (15%) or had annihilation (1%). The arrangement on al Qaeda is similar. Seventy-five percent of Bush supporters anticipate the Bush administering is currently adage Iraq was accouterment abundant abutment to al Qaeda (56%) or alike that it was anon complex in 9/11 (19%). Further, 55% of Bush supporters say it is their consequence the Bush administering is currently adage the US has begin bright affirmation Saddam Hussein was alive carefully with al Qaeda (not adage bright affirmation found: 37%)."
These bodies aren't activity to be affected by the altercation that Bush has alienated American's allies and larboard the country abandoned in the world, because they don't accept this to be the case. "Despite a abiding breeze of official statements, accessible demonstrations, and accessible assessment acclamation assuming that the US war adjoin Iraq is absolutely unpopular, alone 31% of Bush supporters admit that the majority of bodies in the apple argue the US accepting gone to war with Iraq," the abstraction says. Bush supporters additionally anticipate that apple accessible assessment favors Bush's reelection. In a poll taken from September 3-7, the abstraction says, "57% of Bush supporters affected that the majority of bodies in the apple would adopt to see Bush reelected, 33% affected that angle are analogously disconnected and alone 9% affected that Kerry would be preferred."
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In fact, a PIPA abstraction appear in aboriginal September begin that a majority or advantage of bodies from 32 countries adopted Kerry to Bush. PIPA surveyed 34,330 people, ages 15 and above, from regions all over the world. A Pew poll appear this bounce analogously begin that "large majorities in every country, except for the U.S., authority an abortive assessment of Bush."
Bush supporters are additionally mistaken about the president's own positions (a arrangement of apparition that an beforehand PIPA address additionally documented). "Majorities afield affected that Bush supports multilateral approaches to assorted all-embracing issues -- the Comprehensive Test Ban Accordance (69%), the accordance banning acreage mines (72%); 51% afield affected he favors US accordance in the Kyoto accordance -- the arch all-embracing accordance on all-around warming... Alone 13% of supporters are acquainted that he opposes activity and ecology standards in barter agreements -- 74% afield accept that he favors including activity and ecology standards in agreements on trade. In all these cases, there is a alternating theme: majorities of Bush supporters favor these positions, and they infer that Bush favors them as well."
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According to the report, this absoluteness gap is article new in American life. "So why do Bush supporters appearance such a attrition to accepting anomalous information?" it asks. "While it is accustomed for bodies to appearance some resistance, the consequence of the abnegation goes above the ordinary. Bush supporters accept succeeded in suppressing acquaintance of the allegation of a accomplished alternation of high-profile letters about prewar Iraq that accept been blazoned beyond the account of newspapers and prompted extensive, high-profile and advancing reflection. The actuality that a ample allocation of Americans say they are blind that the aboriginal affidavit that the US took aggressive activity -- and for which Americans abide to die on a circadian base -- are not axis out to be valid, are apparently not due to a simple abortion to pay absorption to the news."
The assay says that the roots of this abnegation could lie in the agony of 9/11 and people's admiration to authority on to their angel of Bush as a "capable protector." It offers no guidance, though, on how accustomed Republicans ability be coaxed aback to reality.
["400px"]And while "The Separate Realities of Bush and Kerry Supporters" may be perversely acceptable to Democrats in its acceptance of blue-state prejudices, it carries a appealing advancing catechism for all rational Americans: How can arguments based on actuality abound in a nation area so abounding bodies apperceive so little?
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