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title: "Simply Put, The Public’s View Can’t Be Put Simply"
description: "by Andrew Kohut in The Washington Post"
date: "2002-09-29"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2002/09/29/simply-put-the-publics-view-cant-be-put-simply/"
---

# Simply Put, The Public’s View Can’t Be Put Simply

Ask a pollster if there is public support for war with Iraq and the answer is likely to be "yes." Ask reporters doing man-in-the-street interviews or traveling around the country, and they are likely to say "no."...

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