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Poll: GOP better against terrorism, Dems better on Iraq
cnn.com ^ | 24 August 2006

Posted on 08/23/2006 2:37:48 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Americans believe Democrats would do a better job of dealing with the situation in Iraq and handling the economy, but Republicans would do a better job against terrorism, according to a poll released Tuesday.

On terrorism, Republicans were favored by 48 percent of respondents, versus 38 percent for Democrats. Eleven percent said there would be no difference and 3 percent offered no opinion.

But on the war in Iraq, respondents favored Democrats over Republicans by 47 percent to 41 percent, with 8 percent saying there would be no difference, and 3 percent expressing no opinion.

That's a reversal of what national sentiment was in January 2003, when Republicans were favored over Democrats 53 to 29 percent in a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll.

The poll of 1,033 adult Americans was conducted by telephone for CNN by Opinion Research Corporation. It has a sampling error of plus-or-minus 3 percentage points.

Most Americans, according to the poll, seem to have separate opinions about the war in Iraq and terrorism, with more than half (52 percent) saying the war in Iraq is a distraction from the U.S. efforts against terrorists who want to attack targets inside the United States.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2006; 2006polls; 2008; democrats; economy; gop; hezbocrats; iraq; poll; rats; sorocrats; terrorism; wot
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Dems are better at handling the economy?

Bloody lunatics!!!

1 posted on 08/23/2006 2:37:51 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
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To: Aussie Dasher

The Democrats don't "handle" the economy, the "fondle" it.


2 posted on 08/23/2006 2:39:58 PM PDT by My2Cents (A pirate's life for me.)
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That's the Rat's solution to the war on terror and Iraq. Wake up sheeple!

3 posted on 08/23/2006 2:40:47 PM PDT by The South Texan (The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Aussie Dasher
on the war in Iraq, respondents favored Democrats over Republicans by 47 percent to 41 percent

But when the Republicans clearly pin the cut-and-run position on the Democrats, those poll numbers will flip.

4 posted on 08/23/2006 2:41:24 PM PDT by My2Cents (A pirate's life for me.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

... and both parties suck on border security.


5 posted on 08/23/2006 2:42:23 PM PDT by BW2221
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"That's a reversal of what national sentiment was in January 2003, when Republicans were favored over Democrats 53 to 29 percent in a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll."

Funny the article forgets to mention that during the Dubai Ports fiasco the Democrats actually led in the polls in this area and have since fell behind again.

Oh well, I suppose they just forgot.

6 posted on 08/23/2006 2:42:50 PM PDT by Eagles Talon IV
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We get these kind of idiotic polls now... anything to "create news" with skewed poll results. How can the Democrats be "better" on Iraq, when their only clear policy so far put forward would lead to a foreign policy and national security disaster? Idiocy.
7 posted on 08/23/2006 2:43:14 PM PDT by Richard Axtell
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Isn't this the poll that shows the Dems up only 2 points in the generic vote for Congress? Wonder why they failed to mention this?
8 posted on 08/23/2006 2:44:43 PM PDT by Eagles Talon IV
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Isn't this the poll that shows the Dems up only 2 points in the generic vote for Congress? Wonder why they failed to mention this?
9 posted on 08/23/2006 2:44:45 PM PDT by Eagles Talon IV
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Dems are better at handling the economy?

I think every poll always says Democrats are perceived as better on "domestic issues". Of course polls say a lot of things which are totally bogus.

10 posted on 08/23/2006 2:46:19 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
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The most important thing Congress did for the economy was tax cuts. The Democrats opposed. Idiots.


11 posted on 08/23/2006 2:46:30 PM PDT by Always Right
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It is not a coincidence that polls are coming out separating the War on Terror and the War in Iraq. This is what the Dems are trying to do. They are trying hard to make Americans think the two issues are separate. The media, of course, is a willing accomplice. This is so transparent and to be honest I believe these polls are all bogus
12 posted on 08/23/2006 2:47:09 PM PDT by slowhand520
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LMAO, the Democrats better at Iraq and GOP better against terrorism. My goodness my fellow Americans have devolved into a level of stupidity beyond comprehension if they can't see the two issues are one and the same. If we retreat from Iraq, as Dimwitcrats want to do, then we are handing terrorists a win. Who do dunce Americans think we're fighting in Iraq?? The Salvation Army?? God this country is done for.


13 posted on 08/23/2006 2:50:14 PM PDT by MikeA (Not voting out of anger in November is a vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House)
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And what precisely have Democrats done with the economy to make these dunces think they're better at handling it?? It's the Dems. that tried to obstruct the Bush tax cuts that have produced 4% economic growth this year and full employment. And it is the Dims who helped produce $3.00 a gallon gas by obstructing drilling and the building of refineries, to say nothing of the Clinton-era boutique fuel blends that created 30 different fuel blends nationally. Gawd Americans need to turn off the TV news, Desperate Housewives and America's Got Talent and get the f--k informed!!!!


14 posted on 08/23/2006 2:52:44 PM PDT by MikeA (Not voting out of anger in November is a vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House)
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This shows how effective the liberal media is, and how stupid a huge block of our people are.

Liberalism is a mental illness, and that is for certain.


15 posted on 08/23/2006 2:53:14 PM PDT by Idaho Whacko
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To: My2Cents

The only things that Democrats handle better are giving up, spending our tax money and taking away our economic freedom.


16 posted on 08/23/2006 3:01:00 PM PDT by GeorgefromGeorgia
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The Demwits plan:

The Democrat's Plan for Iraq (Click Here.)

17 posted on 08/23/2006 3:02:48 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Aussie Dasher

<< .... (some carefully selected for their stupidity) Americans (feel) "Democrats" would "do a better job" of "dealing with the situation in Iraq" and handling "the economy" but Republicans would do a better job against terrorism .... >>

The answers offered prove only the absolute par-for-CNN's-agenda-driven-course dishonesty of the questions.


18 posted on 08/23/2006 3:05:39 PM PDT by Brian Allen ("Moral issues are always terribly complex, for someone without principles." - G K Chesterton)
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To: Richard Axtell

I am always amazed that people take polls seriously. They pick the questions, they pick the responders.


19 posted on 08/23/2006 3:12:54 PM PDT by rocksblues (Liberals will stop at nothing.)
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Poll: GOP better against terrorism, Dems better on Iraq

I believe that George Orwell had a name for this sort of thing.

20 posted on 08/23/2006 3:14:23 PM PDT by George Smiley (This tagline has been Reutered. (Can you tell?))
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