By: E & P Staff With the Republican National Convention about to open in New York City as a kind of tribute to the city's losses in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, The New York Times on Sunday released its survey of 339 family members of victims that day.
It showed that more blame former President Clinton for what happened that day than they do President Bush, but a majority feel the Bush administration did not do enough before 9/11 to act on intelligence warnings.
Most approve the U.S. attack on Afghanistan but three out of five feel the invasion of Iraq was not worth the loss of American lives. Equal numbers in this sample described themselves as Republicans or Democrats.
But the process of taking the poll proved as revealing as the results: it took much longer to complete (up to an hour in some cases) than the usual New York Times/CBS News Poll, as many respondents cried or expressed raw emotion in other ways. One respondent, the paper reported, "was so upset by a questions about Mr. Bush that she began screaming."
More than three-quarters of the sample objected to use of images from ground zero in political commercials, which the Bush campaign has done. But more than half said President Bush should visit ground zero when he is in New York this week.
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