LOCAL PAPER SCRAPS LEFT-LEANING POLL RESULTS

[OneAngryDemocrat]

The Sauk Valley Newspapers in North Western Illinois scrapped the recent poll which resoundingly showed that Americans wanted Gitmo Bay detainees to be brought to justice! It is OUTRAGEOUS that simply because the poll results didn't agree with the editor's pre-conceived notions on the topic, that those poll results had to be made to ''disappear''!

They have now asked another question, in a new READER POLL, replacing the previous poll (http://www.saukvalley.com/articles/2009/11/14/43879029/index.xml?id=comp_00004a716249_0000044002_50b8&__xsl=/shaw-files/poll/poll-results.xsl&__toolbar=0)with it's left-leaning results.

For several years, now, the Thomson Correctional Center, a super maximum security facility in North Western Illinois, has been sitting vacant.

The state of Illinois, additionally, has a budget deficit in the tens of billions of dollars - which is why the prison has been sitting empty.

The location where this prison is located has an unemployment rate of over 13%.

Bringing the Gitmo Bay detainees to Illinois would finally afford these prisoners their day in court, as well as bring needed jobs, and revenue to the area.

Support justice...

Support local jobs...

Support our President...

The new poll looks like this:

Reader poll

Are you in favor of housing detainees from Guantanamo Bay at Thomson?
Yes
No
Not sure
No opinion

http://www.saukvalley.com /

Scroll half-way down the page, and look for the poll on the right-hand side of your screen.

[ingac70]

1. done....

Sounds like bring the Gitmo prisoners there will bring much need jobs to the area.

[DainBramaged]

2. keep clicking

:evilgrin:

[nykym]

3. Looks like the editor

will have to scrap this poll too. Now its better than 2 to 1 in favor.

[old mark]

4. Thanks-I was YES # 70.

No's were 25 at the time.
Rec.

mark

[OneAngryDemocrat]

5. The State's GOP Wants to embarass Obama...

The will fight this tooth and nail.

[OneAngryDemocrat]

10. Poll Freep'ed

THe poll has been freep'ed

[damntexdem]

6. Yes 75% so far.

LOL!

[FLyellowdog]

7. Done. nt

[OneAngryDemocrat]

8. Thank you!

We need the jobs!

[OneAngryDemocrat]

9. THE POLL HAS BEEN FREEP'ED!!!

Yes 47%

No 50%

Not sure 3%

No opinion 1%

503 participants in total.

[madmom]

11. It's telling me I already took part in this poll. I most assuredly have not!

[OneAngryDemocrat]

12. Purple District

The paper is the one in the very same area in NW Illinois where the Thomson prison is located.

The area usually votes GOP - but former Republican House Leader D Hastert now has a democrat sitting in his vacated chair.

Republicans in the area are fighting this tooth and nail.

Don't let them win!

[dysfunctional press]

13. hastert's old district stretches pretty far, east-west across the state..

bill foster is the democrat who beat oberweiss the milk nazi twice in 9 months to keep the seat.

http://foster.house.gov/District/

[OneAngryDemocrat]

14. The GOP'pers...

The Republicans never went away - they're still there, dominating the local newspaper editorial boards.