Poll Watch: SurveyUSA Los Angeles Poll on Photographs of Osama bin Laden's Body

SurveyUSA Los Angeles Poll on Photographs of Osama bin Laden's Body

Should the US government release no photographs of Osama bin Laden's body? Release certain photographs? Or release every photograph it has?

• Every photograph 43%
• Certain photographs 39%
• None 14%

When a photograph is officially released, will you look at the photo no matter what? Not look at the photo no matter what? Or only decide whether to look at the photo after you know how graphic the photo is?

• Will look at it 67%
• Will not 8%
• Depends how graphic 23%

Will releasing a photograph of Bin Laden's dead body make the world be a more dangerous place? A safer place? Or will it make no difference?

• More dangerous 19%
• Safer place 18%
• No difference 59%

Will releasing a photograph of Bin Laden's dead body convince people that Bin Laden is in fact dead? Or would a photo make no difference to those who think Bin Laden may not be dead?

• Convince people Bin Laden is dead 59%
• Will make no difference 33%

Survey of 1,000 adults in the Los Angeles metropolitan area was conducted May 3, 2011. The margin of error is +/- 3.2 percentage points. Party ID breakdown: 41% Democrat; 30% Republican; 24% Independent. Political ideology: 43% Moderate; 26% Conservative; 21% Liberal.