Feb 29 2008

Wait, we’re gonna win? America thinks we’re going to win?

Posted by Neocon in Domestic, Foreign Policy, Homeland Security, Iraq, Terrorism

(via QandO) Did you miss this poll yesterday? I don’t remember it being trumpeted across the airwaves. It should have been. Here are some highlights.

Public perceptions of the situation in Iraq have become significantly more positive over the past several months, even as opinions about the initial decision to use military force remain mostly negative and unchanged.

The number of Americans who say the military effort is going very or fairly well is much higher now than a year ago (48% vs. 30% in February 2007). There has been a smaller positive change in the number who believe that the U.S. will ultimately succeed in achieving its goals (now 53%, up from 47% in February 2007).

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The president’s overall job approval rating remains low, at 33%, but the public gives his administration considerable credit for preventing terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11.

More than six-in-ten Americans (62%) say the Bush administration’s policies have had a great deal (28%) or a fair amount (34%) to do with the fact that there have been no terrorist attacks in the United States since 2001. Only about a third (35%) says Bush policies have had not too much or nothing at all to do with the absence of attacks.

The most impressive part is this…

The number of Americans who say the military effort is going very or fairly well is much higher now than a year ago (48% vs. 30% in February 2007). There has been a smaller positive change in the number who believe that the U.S. will ultimately succeed in achieving its goals (now 53%, up from 47% in February 2007).

That’s 53-39 now in favor of America succeeding in Iraq. That’s a big deal considering the line we’ve been fed for the last five years from the media and the left.