Posted on 07/23/2007 1:09:44 PM PDT by tobyhill
American support for the war in Iraq has risen somewhat as the White House has continued to ask the public to reserve judgment about the war until General David Petraeus files his report in the fall. In a New York Times/CBS News poll conducted over the weekend, 42 percent of Americans said taking military action in Iraq was the right thing to do, while 51 percent said the United States should have stayed out of Iraq. Support had been at all time low in May, when only 35 percent of Americans said the United States’ involvement in Iraq was the right thing and 61 percent said the United States should have stayed out. Still, the latest poll made clear that a two-thirds majority of Americans continue to say the war is going badly. However, the number of people who say the war is going “very badly” has fallen from 45 percent earlier in July to a current reading of 35 percent, and of those who say it is going well, 29 percent now describe it as “somewhat well” compared to 23 percent just last week.
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Democrats are gonna have to surge to prevent an American victory.
Poll Americans who are in Iraq.
I'd love to see those numbers.
Imagine how painful it was for someone at the NYT to write that....
They’re going all out now, all the way to the impeachment talk again.
I also have a great idea:
Poll only the Americans who vote, and have a good idea what the war is all about.
When the US succeeds in Iraq, the Democrats are toast.
The White House and the rest of the administration have GOT to keep making the point that the war in Iraq is an essential front in the war on terror, and keep stressing all that is being accomplished with the “surge.” And it might help if they periodically remind the American people that the Iraqi legislature (parliment?) is not doing any worse than our very own morons in Congress when it comes to getting anything done.
The REAL sad part of this is that support comes and goes with the ups and downs of the battle. Its like cheering for BOTH teams in the Super Bowl depending on who is winning.
How about they poll the American media in Iraq?
Whadaya do, Nancy? Whadaya do?
When you base you’re entire agenda on polls instead of principles and the polls start to change?
Whadaya do, Harry? Whadaya do?
Expect a full court press from the MSM on “illegal immigration”.
That works every time to fracture support for the President, which in turn fractures support for the war.
And are just beginning to be exposed as faux journalists, and Dim party hacks.
Propping up the party is getting difficult, very difficult while lying about being reporters.
13 posts and I’m surprised I haven’t seen it right here.
“American support for the war in Iraq has risen somewhat”
If the public starts to see us actually fight to win, support for the war will go through the roof.
No surprise. The liberals are busy with their dog and pony show. Maybe it’s better this way, the less they do the less we have to clean up later.
I hate to say it, but where President Bush erred was mostly in the PR campaign post Election 2004. I firmly believed that he fell back into lazy mode because he won the election, and didn’t have to run again. He forgot that the battle with the media is a neverending 24/7 job to salvage public perception.
The damage done to the perception of Iraq was done in 2005, where the drip drip started, and all Bush did was repeat the same lines over and over without a lot of conviction.
I am surprised and heartened that there seems to be movement the other direction now. If you consider the usual 5% error in polls, it isn’t that far from getting back to the usual 40-40-20 split. Hardcore right hardcore left, middle.
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