Where are the opinion polls about the war?

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday February 14, 2003 16:02 by Markos - adhoc

Gvt. popularity, yes but how do Irish people as a whole feel about the war

The Poll today in the Irish Times shows slippage in the support for this government and its leader. While Indymedia readers will not find this surprising, what I find puzzling is the marked absence of opinion polls about attitudes towards any forthcoming war on Iraq.

Surely this is the burning issue of the year -- where are the opinion polls about it? Are the traditional media scared of running them, or is there another reason why they are shying away from running one?

Whether an opinion poll can be trusted is another issue entirely but at least there should be one done which we could disagree or agree with.