Posted on 06/21/2005 7:18:04 AM PDT by Mike Bates
Fewer Americans fear a terrorist attack on the USA in the next several weeks than at any time since 9/11, a new USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll shows.
Overall, 35% say another attack is likely soon, down from 39% in January and a high of 85% in October 2001, a month after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The public has lost confidence in the Bush administration's ability to protect the nation from terrorist attacks, the poll shows, but 61% are still confident it can.
Satisfaction with the way things are going in the war on terrorism is at a new low: 52%, down from 75% in September 2002.
"On one hand, we have been lulled by the fact that there hasn't been an attack here since 2001," says Stephen Wayne, a political scientist at Georgetown University. "But on the other, we're generally in a funk about a lot of things - the economy and the war - and these numbers reflect it."
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How stupid is this shit?
Oh no... a funk! (Is that like a malaise?) What will we ever do? Be strong America, Face the Funk!
When(if) the price of oil drops you will see more favorable numbers for the administration across the board. The ripple effect of continually higher oil prices is going to devastate this economy and I sense that right now less disposable income is being manifest in an uneasiness being felt around the country.
Probably another poll where most of the voters surveyed voted for Kerry... USA today can take its polls and stuff 'em up Kerry's flip flops.
The Truth doesn't count !!
Hahaha...the economy is strong, jobs are up, unemployment down, many have made killing in real estate, but
WE'RE DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!
Yes, that's just what I was thinking. What a stupid, stupid sentence! Good Lord, what was this, some kind of push poll?
People are trying to kill us and we worry about how we treat them? What madness is this?
Unemployment stands at approximately 5% which, since the end of WW2, is considered to be full employment.
Nearly 70% of America lives in a privately owned home - a record high not only for the US but also FOR THE WHOLE WORLD.
Are we that addled that we cannot see the good because there is always some bad?
Good Lord Almighty, we are turning into a nation of whiners and sissies.
Why the disconnect - "news organizations don't care to report good news, they'd rather take polls from anyone sitting in his/her living room watching the boob tube/playing video games/doing drugs or getting over last night's drunk, and shazaam - everyone is in a funk and it's W's fault. Now there is some "real" news we can print.
Ignorance is bliss.
You got it! Good work, Tulane!
Happily, I hang out on FR so I'm happy as a freakin' clam!
It's Bush's fault.
one of the people depressed by the lack of terrorist attacks in the USA?
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