Mondo Times Political Poll Archive
This poll ran from March 26 to April 1, 2007.
| Mondo Stars Poll Results |
| "President George W. Bush is a war criminal." True    1591/46%False 1904/54% |
| Votes: 3495 |
Rocky Anderson, the mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah and a Democrat, speaking at a rally in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 19 2007 marking the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq. Referring to President George W. Bush, he said "Let impeachment be the first step toward national reconciliation — and toward penance for the outrages committed in our nation's name."
As reported in the story "In Utah, an Opponent of the 'Culture of Obedience'" by Kirk Johnson in the March 22, 2007 edition of the New York Times, Anderson is a 55-year-old lapsed Mormon and former civil litigator. The article states that "He has presented his constitutional argument against Mr. Bush's presidency in speeches from the Washington Legislature to peace rallies in Washington, D.C., making him a favorite punching bag of conservative talk show hosts and bloggers well beyond his home state. He went on Bill O'Reilly's show on Fox News on Tuesday, for example, and Mr. O\'Reilly promptly called him "a kook."
"Mr. Anderson cheerfully conceded in an interview in his office that he had no hope whatsoever of a statewide political future in Utah because people outside Salt Lake City — who are far more likely to be conservative, Republican and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — are likely to hate him. But in what has been a trademark of his seven years in office, he can seem equally disdainful of those who disdain him.
"There's a real resistance to change and an almost pathological devotion to leaders simply because they're leaders," Anderson said, in describing fellow Utahans who do not share his views and who in large numbers support the president (and gave him 72 percent of their vote in 2004). "There's a dangerous culture of obedience throughout much of this country that's worse in Utah than anywhere."
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