May 5, 2011
A Majority Opinion Research national poll of voters finds that 51% of American voters agree with President Barack Obama’s decision not to release Osama Bin Laden’s death photo, even though only 48% think the release of those photos would do more to provoke retaliatory attacks than prove that he is dead.
Q. Do you believe that the photographs of Osama Bin Laden’s death should be released?
| Yes |
38% |
| No |
51% |
| No Opinion |
11% |
Q. In your opinion would the release of Osama Bin Laden’s death photo do more to prove to the world that he is dead or do more to provoke retaliatory attacks?
| Do more to prove to the world that he is dead |
41% |
| Do more to provoke retaliatory attacks |
48% |
| No Opinion |
11% |
The poll of 1,032 voters was conducted on May 4, 2001 and was weighted by age, race, gender and political party affiliation. The poll has a maximum sampling error of +/- 2.9%. |
