Let's have a poll on JFK

[JackRiddler]

86. Results as of Nov 14 (200 votes)

A majority (54% or 106 out of 200) in this self-selecting Internet poll of DU users is choosing the coup d'etat hypothesis, while an additional 19% also reject the Warren Commission findings of a lone gunman acting alone, which in turn have the support only from 27% of those who have answered so far.

This is about what one would expect given the recent nationwide random sample survey finding 59% of respondents believe in a "conspiracy" (which is usually what is asked, despite the vagueness and concerted tainting of that term).

The even higher number here, and their readiness to accept that it was a coup d'etat (rather than the many side-hypotheses invented largely since the Garrison trial to distract from the overwhelmingly likely role of the U.S. government) I shall attribute to the fact that this is a fairly oppositional (Underground as well as Democratic) and well-informed public.

The official story believers, of course, are free to attribute it to the idea that 73% of DUers are insane, mentally deficient, lonely wackos, psychologically longing for the reassurance of an ordered universe (in which evil rules!), susceptible to recognizing patterns (oh no! don't do that! stop thinking!), or Just Haven't Read the WCR Enough Times (because it gets even better the fourth go-around).

(1) Oswald. 52 (27%)

(2) CIA etc. 106 (54%)

(3) Other. 37 (19%)

5 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.