Most American who will pass through airports this weekend don’t care if they are closely examined, screened, or even touched. Perhaps the bomb scare on a Detroit bound plane last year has caused this attitude or the bombs recently placed on planes flown from Europe.
A new Gallup poll “asked those who have flown two or more times in the past year about the full-body scans and pat-downs the Transportation Security Administration is now using at many U.S. airports as a means to prevent acts of terrorism. The majority (57%) say they are not bothered by the prospect of undergoing a full-body scan at airport security checkpoints. The same percentage, however, say they are bothered, if not angry, about the prospect of undergoing a full-body pat-down. Still, fewer than one in three frequent air travelers are “angry” about undergoing either procedure.”
Another reasons travelers may not be bothered the procedure is the 24% of them have already been through it at least once. It must not have been much of an experience.
“Results for this USA Today/Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Nov. 19-21, 2010, with a random sample of 3,018 adults, aged 18 and older, living in the continental U.S., selected using random-digit-dial sampling.”
Douglas A. McIntyre
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