[vincesanity82]

Only about four in 10 baseball fans are rooting for Barry Bonds to break the career home run record and most think he knowingly took steroids, according to a poll showing stark racial divisions in how the San Francisco Giants' slugger is viewed. Still, most fans think Bonds should end up in the Hall of Fame. He has 10 homers this season and 744 lifetime — 11 shy of Hank Aaron's record, one of the most revered in sports.
In the poll by ABC News and ESPN, 37% said they are rooting for Bonds to break Aaron's record, while 52% said they hope he falls short and 11% had no opinion. Twenty-eight% of whites and nearly 75% of blacks said they were hoping Bonds succeeds.
Nearly three quarters said they think Bonds knowingly took the performance-enhancing drugs, which he has long denied. Just more than a third of blacks — and three-fourths of whites — shared that view.
Of those who think he used steroids, two-thirds said that makes him a cheater — even though major league baseball was not testing for the drugs at the time. There was no racial breakdown for that question.

Nearly six in 10 said Bonds should be elected to the Hall of Fame, including majorities of both races. About as many said they believe he has been treated fairly, including a third of blacks and six in 10 whites.
Of those who think his treatment has been unfair, more blacks and whites say it is because of his alleged steroid use than because of his race.
The ABC-ESPN poll involved telephone interviews with 799 adult baseball fans from March 29 to April 22. Its margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. Those surveyed included 203 blacks, for whom the margin of sampling error was 7 percentage points.



Poll: Bonds' HR quest gets scant support - USATODAY.com

[Mr.MojoRisin]

If you go to any fan/sports site anywhere other than a Giants one Bonds is loathed. He is more hated than Shoeless Joe Jackson was in 1919. He is a great ballplayer, but the fact is that he cheated. Pete Rose is denied entry into the hall of fame because he gambled on games, but Barry Bonds can shoot up and become He-Man and break all kinds of records and he is welcome into the hall of fame with open arms. There's something wrong with that. Ask anyone who's not a diehard Giants fan their opinion on Bonds and trust me, 90 percent of the time their reaction will be the same.

[EmpireWF]

There's a poll out there asking current players whether they think Bonds should be a HOFer and whether Selig should be present for Bonds when he breaks the record.

The majority of players believe Bonds is a HOFer and Selig should be present.

Players stick with each other through thick and thin.

[ThePundit]

The flaw in this poll is we don't know who was polled. Are they real baseball fans? Or are they casual fans?

Would the people polled know the difference between Barry Zito and baked ziti?