Posted on 06/24/2005 12:23:24 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Just over half of Americans, 53 percent, now say the war in Iraq was a mistake - the highest percentage to say that in AP-Ipsos polling since December 2003, when two-thirds said the war in Iraq was the right thing to do.
The poll taken earlier this week also found that almost six in 10 disapprove of the Bush administration's conduct of the war, but about the same number say they would prefer keeping troops until the situation is stable instead of immediately withdrawing them from Iraq. Some other findings:
-Who most favors the war: Suburban men, Republicans.
-Who is most opposed: Those 65 and older, people living in urban areas, unmarried women, those who make less than $25,000 a year, Catholics and Democrats.
-War's conduct: Almost six in 10, 56 percent, said they don't approve of the way the Bush administration has conducted the war in Iraq, with 41 percent approving. Four of five Republicans, 79 percent, approved, while more than four of five Democrats, 84 percent disapprove.
-No hasty retreat: Given the choice of keeping troops in until the situation has stabilized or bringing troops home immediately, six in 10 said they want troops to stay and help stabilize Iraq. The percentage of people who want troops to come home immediately has increased to 37 percent, up from 28 percent in November.
The findings on the Iraq war come from a poll of 1,000 adults conducted June 20-22 for The Associated Press by Ipsos, an international polling firm. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points, larger for subgroups.
Keep pushing those polls, undermining the military and our commander in chief, media fifth-columnists.
Meanwhile, you keep selling fewer and fewer smaller papers. Maybe that's the real poll result you should be thinking about.
The MSM is doing a great job at helping the terrorists defeat America at home.
Maybe if they actually reported rather than state opinion...
Polls..... ppphhhttt
Majority put Clinton in office for two terms.
DTogo: suburban, male Republican.
All the polls agree with this one.
As I've said elsewhere, the war is tipping. It can go over the edge of the jihadis launch a Tetlike offensive and show the world they are more than just a scattered bunch of killers.
I too would be more in favor of Bush's handling of the war if he took the gloves off a bit more.
Over half of Americans? Nobody asked me....
Breakdown is:
50% Democrat
"Given the choice of keeping troops in until the situation has stabilized or bringing troops home immediately, six in 10 said they want troops to stay and help stabilize Iraq. "
Why isn't this the headline?
sample percentage:
"50% Democrat
40% Republican"
So in otherwords the MSM pumped propaganda of doubt but STILL they don't want to cut and run? So they STILL support the President's policy and not kennedy's?
Even with the nice rigging of party I.D. AP/IPSOS they pulled off here?
Clinton never had a majority thanks to Perot!!!
Clinton never won a majority of the popular vote in the 1992 (43%) and 1996 (49%) presidential elections.
I'm a realist. Television rules the world, and television is telling the boobs that the war is already lost.
I realize that it's being slowly won in Iraq proper, but it's the "slowly" that's important. Americans are notorious for being impatient, and unless certain steps are taken, the war will be lost here at home. It's gone on too long. Unfortunately, those "steps" require amplification of the military effort, which will NEVER go over well here at home, not with the media concentrating on losses and not gains.
History teaches that all war is psychology, bending the will of your enemy to match your own. The killing of terrorists is secondary. Body counts don't count. Television coverage does. That's the lesson of Viet Nam. (Oops! I used the VN term!)
lol
maybe we can call thse polls that pop up all the time something like..
pollamity.. as in ..
A new pollamity was loosed by the MSM'Polls'R'our news today and every day/'Coalition of the witless' on the public in an attempt to suborn support for the War in Iraq
The only important response is the majority opposing a pullout. That pertains to the current decision at hand.
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