Support For Chicago Olympics Bid Lower Than City's Figure: IOC Poll

Chicago Tribune:

A public opinion poll commissioned by the International Olympic Committee showed Chicagoans' support for the 2016 Olympics to be 10 percentage points lower than the figure Chicago officials used in their bid book based on their own polling, the Tribune has learned.

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[LLivel]

Chicagoans' support lower, Olympic poll shows

May 7, 2009
A public opinion poll commissioned by the International Olympic Committee showed Chicagoans' support for the 2016 Olympics to be 10 percentage points lower than the figure Chicago officials used in their bid book based on their own polling, the Tribune has learned.

The IOC poll showed 67 percent of Chicagoans supported having the Summer Games, according to sources familiar with the results.

Chicago's bid book listed 77 percent support from polling done by Zogby International late last year.
Chicago 2016 spokesman Patrick Sandusky declined to comment on the poll numbers.

``That is for the IOC to report,'' Sandusky said, referring to the evaluation commission report that's to be released a month before the Oct. 2 IOC vote choosing the host city.

A poll of registered voters in Chicago and the suburbs commissioned by the Tribune in late January showed 64 percent support for an Olympics in Chicago...

Public support is a factor in the eventual decision because the IOC does not want to have the Games where they are not wanted, especially since organizing the event requires the host city to handle often unforeseen problems.

-- Philip Hersh

[Dr Manhattan]

Surprise, surprise. Our local media yanked the article. This coming from one of the papers that is crying that it's going bankrupt because no one buys it anymore.

Public support according to IOC (What I can gather from the article)
Chicago 67%
Tokyo 56%
Madrid 85%
Rio 82%


Here's a url for the rest of lowly masses.

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:NylV9b3LqzAJ:www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/05/chicagoans-support-lower-olympic-poll-shows.html+chicagoans-support-lower-olympic-poll-shows&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

[47th]

No surprise here. I think most Chicagoans dread the possibility of the Olympics coming here.

[Tinsdale]

This polling "discrepancy” is just another one of the “tissues of lies” from the Daley Administration regarding the 2016 Olympic bid. By the time they are finished, the Daley team will have exhausted several cases of this special Kleenex.

[ThoughtCriminal]

I supported the Olympic bid. But that changed after the Parking Meter debacle.

[BushBites]

Whoever pays gets his way in Zogby polls.