Posted on 07/15/2008 10:50:42 AM PDT by tobyhill
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds the country split down the middle between those backing Sen. Barack Obama's 16-month timeline for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and those agreeing with Sen. John McCain's position that events, not timetables, should dictate when forces come home.
Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, will deliver what his campaign is billing as a "major address" on Iraq today in Washington, part of an effort to convince voters that he could serve effectively as commander in chief. The public is also evenly divided on that question, with 48 percent saying he would be an effective leader of the military and 48 percent saying he would not.
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All he is proving is that he would be a national shame as an incompetent Coward in Chief.
Ugh. You were right that we have big problems. 52% are clueless or worse.
Just a black version of Jimmy Carter.
Reality is, the majority of the American public are seeing victory....They are seeing success.....the constant MSM spin and lies is being washed out by reality......slowly but surely...
This poll bodes very badly for Obama (for starters) and shows history is already not being kind to those who were against victory in Iraq....
If they had gotten behind the effort instead of running a 5th column offense, the war might have been over by now and a lot of good American soldiers would be alive. The MSM and democrats have a lot of innocent blood on their hands.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/postpoll_071408.html
Washington Post-ABC News Poll This Washington Post-ABC News poll was conducted by telephone July 10-13, 2008, among a random national sample of 1,119 adults, including additional interviews with randomly selected African Americans, for a total of 209 black respondents. The additional interviews (commonly referred to as an "oversample") were completed to ensure there were enough African American respondents for separate analysis; the group was not over-represented in the reported results from the full sample. The results from the full survey have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points. Sampling, data collection and tabulation by TNS of Horsham, Pa.
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