America: White House Misleads Us

"You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time." --Abraham Lincoln.

Majority Believe White House
Misleads Public, Poll Shows
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
November 23, 2005

A majority of U.S. adults believe the Bush administration generally misleads the public on current issues, while fewer than a third of Americans believe the information provided by the administration is generally accurate, the latest Harris Interactive poll finds.

While the telephone survey of 1,011 U.S. adults indicates about 64% of Americans believe the Bush administration "generally misleads the American public on current issues to achieve its own ends," opinion on the topic is clearly divided along party lines. A large majority (68% to 28%) of Republicans say the Bush administration generally provides accurate information. However, even larger majorities of Democrats (91% to 7%) and Independents (73% to 25%) think the information is generally misleading.

Full text linked above in the title, but it may only be good through today (Nov 23).