First Read reports: “An ABC/Washington Post poll shows by a 64%-32% margin, Americans favor airport body scanners, but by a 50%-48% margin they say the pat-downs go too far.”

Of course, in general, a passenger only gets a pat-down if he objects to going through the body scanner.

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