Mister Poll: Key Issues - War on Drugs, War on Iraq, etc.

In recent months, the government of the United States used military force, despite international opposition, to topple a brutal, totalitarian regime. Which of the following do you belive is a more important goal?

Actively opposing brutal dictatorships.

Maintaining the legitimacy of international institutions.

What type of nation would you expect to have the world's largest prison population?

A nation with a constitutional, democratic government.

A nation with a repressive, dictatorial government.

What type of nation would you expect to have the world's largest prison population?

A huge nation such as China.

A nation about the size of the United States.

A small but very repressive nation, such as North Korea or Cuba.

Which nation do you think (or know) actually has the world's largest prison population?

Which of the following would you consider an appropriate penalty for an eighteen-year-old first-time drug dealer, who sold a small amount of LSD to a friend?

A fine and probation - hopefully, the kid will learn his lesson and stay away from drugs.

A short prison sentence (one month or under).

A prison sentence of between one month and a year.

A prison sentence of up to five years, but with the possibility of parole.

Ten years in prison with no hope of parole, or of leading a normal life afterwards

Which penalty do you think (or know) is the actual punishment for the above offense?

A fine and probation.

A short prison sentence.

Up to five years in prison, with the possibility of parole.

Ten years in prison, with no parole.

If an ethnic conflict were going on in an African country, and one tribe had occupied the territory of another, and the occupied tribe had responded by launching terrorist attacks to free themselves from foreign occupation, and the first tribe responded by attacking the occupied tribe's villages and killing its children, who would you sympathize with?

The occupying tribe - their violence is excusable because it's in self-defense.

The occupied tribe - their violence is excusable because it's in self-defense.

Neither side - it's an ethnic conflict, and both sides are equally to blame.

If George Bush Jr., Joe Lieberman and Ralph Nader were to be the only three candidates in next year's Presidential Election, who do you think you would vote for?

Bush

Lieberman

Nader

I wouldn't vote.

What if the same election had a run-off, so that you knew that you could vote again in the final round if it turned out your candidate got eliminated?

I'd vote for Bush.

I'd vote for Lieberman.

I'd vote for Nader.

I probably wouldn't vote.

Which of the following do you believe to be effective methods of social correction (check all that apply)?

Fines

Prison sentences

Probation

Community service

Corporal punishment

The Death Penalty

Do you believe that a man should ever receive a life sentence (without parole) for shoplifting $10 worth of video tapes?

Yes, if he already has prior felony convictions.

No, never.

Overall, would you say that the United States has...

Too much crime OR

Too many prisons

Do you believe that all forms of consensual sex should be legal?

Yes.

Hell no.