The poll, which can be seen in a Powerpoint presentation here, says they didn't do interviews in Anwar, Ninewah, and Dahuk governorates. The Anwar and Ninewah input would have been a lot more negative, I believe. The Dahuk, largely Kurdish, would probably be more positive. Don't know how this would balance out.

Some excerpts on methodology:

􀂄 Face-to-face interviews were conducted February 27 –March 5, 2005.

􀂄 All field work was conducted by an Iraqi polling firm employing more than 200 trained interviewers across the country.

􀂄 Interviews occurred in 15 of 18 governorates, excluding Anbar(Ramadi), Ninewah(Mosul) and Dohukfor security reasons.

􀂄 A total sample of 1,967 valid interviews were obtained from a total sample of 2,200 rendering a response rate of 89.40 percent.

􀂄The overall margin of error for the survey is +/-3.0 percent.

􀂄 Representative of 15 of Iraq’s 18 provinces—percentage of sample ranging from 5.1 percent in Umarato 17.0 percent in Baghdad.

􀂄 Urban sample accounts for 66.6 percent or respondents and rural respondents made up the remaining 33.4 percent.

􀂄 Male to female ratio of 45.8 percent to 54.2 percent, respectively.

􀂄 Ethnic distribution: Arabic (79.1 percent), Kurdish (17.5 percent), Turkman(2.4 percent), Chaldo-Assyrian (0.9 percent), No Answer (0.2 percent).

􀂄 Age distribution: 18-24 (20.0 percent), 25-34 (29.6 percent), 35-44 (23.2 percent), 45-54 (14.7 percent), 55 and over (12.4 percent).

􀂄 Religious Distribution: Sunni Muslim (25.0 percent), Shia Muslim(46.5 percent), Only Muslim (27.4 percent), Christian and other sects (1.1 percent).