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CNN Poll: More Americans Are Saying The Terrorists Are Winning
Townhall.com ^ | December 28, 2015 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 12/28/2015 12:09:03 PM PST by Kaslin

Concerning the war on terror, or as the Obama administration calls it, "overseas contingency operations," Americans don't feel it's going well. In fact, a new CNN/ORC poll found that more Americans "are more likely to say that terrorists are winning the war against the United States than they have been at any point since the September 11 attacks." Moreover, 74 percent are not satisfied by how the war on terror is going, with three percent saying they're very satisfied (who are these people?). Sixty percent disapprove of the way Obama's been handling the issue of terrorism, while 52 percent disapprove of his job performance overall. Yet, regarding the war on terror, the dissatisfaction crosses party lines:

While less than half of Americans say the terrorists are winning, the current 40% who do believe that is 17 points above the previous high of 23% reached in August 2005. Another 40% say neither side has an advantage, and just 18% say today that the U.S. and its allies have the upper hand -- 10 points off the previous low for that measure, reached in January 2007.

Majority dissatisfaction with the war on terrorism crosses party lines, with even a majority of Democrats, 59%, expressing unease with the case prosecuted by the Obama White House. Seventy-nine percent of independents and 86% of Republicans also say they are dissatisfied with how it has fared.

A majority of Republicans, 55%, say they think the terrorists are winning, while most Democrats, 52%, feel neither side has an edge.

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Yet worries that a terrorist attack could hit home are at their highest level since 2005. Only about half express confidence that the Obama administration can protect U.S. citizens from future acts of terrorism. Overall, 45% say they are very or somewhat worried that they or someone in their family will become a victim of terrorism.

Don't be shocked if terrorism becomes one of the main issues on the 2016 trail next year.


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1 posted on 12/28/2015 12:09:03 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The Muslim in the White House guarantees it.


2 posted on 12/28/2015 12:10:05 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Kaslin

These days it’s hard to see the difference between the terrorists and the politicians.


3 posted on 12/28/2015 12:11:24 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Kaslin

One cannot have a war on a tactic. Terrorism is a tactic.

Islam is at war with us.


4 posted on 12/28/2015 12:12:18 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Kaslin

I know someone who passed out when she heard this shocking news.


5 posted on 12/28/2015 12:12:59 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (I don't know what Claire Wolfe is thinking but I know what I am thinking.)
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To: Brilliant

Our politicians are bringing terrorists into the country, and few of them speak out against it. Even some churches claiming to be Christian think it is a good idea to support radical Muslims.


6 posted on 12/28/2015 12:17:59 PM PST by Dante3
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To: Kaslin
Been to an airport lately?


7 posted on 12/28/2015 12:20:46 PM PST by GregoTX (Autonomous terrorism calls for autonomous defense)
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To: Kaslin

I see all of these pictures of ISIS soldiers and I’m thinking to myself...

Why in the hell don’t we just kill them right then and there?


8 posted on 12/28/2015 12:21:25 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Kaslin
with three percent saying they're very satisfied (who are these people?).

Muslims.

9 posted on 12/28/2015 12:26:44 PM PST by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Kaslin

It takes a popularity poll to know Islam is winning? They went from taking over one country to 17 countries in just two years. We been watching and helping where we can.


10 posted on 12/28/2015 12:33:51 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: unixfox

There is video’s on Apache helicopter flying back and fourth over one of those long Toyota caravans of ISIS. I’m talking about an altitude of 1000 about feet. It was almost as though he was escorting them. They had no fear they didn’t stop or do anything about the helicopter.


11 posted on 12/28/2015 12:40:01 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Sunday last, I was in a coffee shop, across from me was a traditional American family...a man a woman, and a 8 year old girl.

The girl was showing her mother how to wear the scarf of red and white, similar to what the Arabs wear....she covered her hair in the Muslim style with scarf, and modeled for her mother, who appeared to approve...
I thought, it is over if young girls embrace the Muslim dress at such an early age....

12 posted on 12/28/2015 1:06:10 PM PST by B212
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To: Kaslin

The terrorists won when the first American got strip searched at an airport, when the first American had to submit to a full body scanner that takes nude shots, or when the first American had to throw away his camera case at the entrance to a football game.

These wouldn’t be a win for the terrorists if we were killing them by the thousands on the other side of the world, but since our government is protecting them while inflicting this one us, then the terrorists have won.


13 posted on 12/28/2015 1:31:17 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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"It All Depends on
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Death to America!"


14 posted on 12/28/2015 2:16:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Kaslin

The Sissy Traitor in the WH says we’re doing fine, not to worry.


15 posted on 12/28/2015 3:29:54 PM PST by Calpublican (A.G. Lynch: The intent of this statement is to incite violence against radical Islam)
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To: Kaslin

Feminists are equating gang rape with civilized men questioning the 1 in 4 girls are raped narrative.

But they ignore actual rape of brown women, because, multi-culturalism excuses it and stopping it requires actual effort.

Harrowing footage released by Yazidi group shows terrified families scream as ISIS gunmen surround them and drag away their wives and daughters to become sex slaves

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3365871/Harrowing-footage-released-Yazidi-group-shows-terrified-families-scream-ISIS-gunmen-surround-drag-away-wives-daughters-sex-slaves.html#ixzz3vf0pyTCh


16 posted on 12/28/2015 3:36:44 PM PST by tbw2
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To: B212

Sickening.


17 posted on 12/28/2015 6:17:47 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Kaslin

Muslims are winning the culture wars thanks to the Leftists.


18 posted on 12/28/2015 8:01:29 PM PST by Crucial (At the heart all leftistshttps://terri0729.fil is the fear that the truth is bigger than themselves.)
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To: Kaslin

Yet yesterday the Iraqi army took back the city of Riamadi from ISIS.


19 posted on 12/29/2015 3:09:51 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

No. There are at least 13 mooslums in different departments of Zero’s caliphate in the white hut. There’s a lot of them, even at DHS.


20 posted on 12/29/2015 8:29:27 AM PST by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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