New IRI Polls: 67% of Pakistanis want Mushrraf to go now.

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Re: New IRI Polls: 67% of Pakistanis want Mushrraf to go now.

@Shamraz_Khan

What 33%? Poll doesn’t say 33% support Mushrraf. In those 33% you have undecided, and the people who really don’t care one way or the other. Mushrraf’s realistic support is probably around 15% which is pretty consistent from previous poll of 18%.

I did not say 33% support musharraf but 33% who dont want him to go, whether because they want him to stay, or because they are indifferent or because they are undecided. its 33% who at this pint have not said that they want him to go, and they are Pakistani too. That was the pint

it was established a number of posts ago that goign by IRI numbers (which btw are much more acceptable in Q4 2007 then they were Q2 2006 ) 23% ppl support him, and we discussed that even 23% is a large number in a fragmented political scene as Pakistans.

@LockJaw

^ When the question of comparison with BB and NS comes up, the relevant figure is 23%

now fight it out with lockjaw, whether its IRI 23% which is reliable per IRI or your 15% assumption. if it is 23%, in a coalition setting that is still pretty important. now note I am not saying this as support and I am not saying that he has majority, but a simple mathematical exercise showing that in a country with such a fragmented political scene anyone with such numbers is a player. look at Israeili and Italian elections and see coaolitions there, and even in pakistan where sometimes smaller parties have a strong presence because without them in teh coalition the majority goes away…