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| Rasmussen: 48% Say U.S. Winning War on Terror |
| 2005-12-02 |
| Survey of 1,000 Adults December 2, 2005--Confidence in the War on Terror is up sharply compared to a month ago. Forty-eight percent (48%) Americans now believe the U.S. and its Allies are winning. That's up nine points from 39% a month ago and represents the highest level of confidence measured in 2005. Just 28% now believe the terrorists are winning, down six points from 34% a month ago. The survey was conducted on Wednesday and Thursday night following the President's speech outlining his strategy in Iraq. Huge partisan divisions on questions dealing with Iraq remain. Seventy-four percent (74%) of Republicans believe the U.S. and its allies are winning. That's up from 64% a month ago. Just 28% of Democrats believe the U.S. is winning while 45% of Nancy Pelosi's party believe the terrorists are winning. Even that is a more optimistic assessment than last month when just 19% of Democrats said the U.S. was winning. Among those those not affiliated with either major party, 40% now say the U.S. and its allies are winning. Thirty percent (30%) take the opposite view. A month ago, unaffiliateds were evenly divided. Forty percent (40%) now believe that the U.S. is safer than it was before 9/11. That's up from 34% a month ago and 37% the month before. Forty-three percent (43%) take the opposite view and say the U.S. is not safer that it was before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. That figure is down from 50% a month ago. Thirty-eight percent (38%) give the President good or excellent ratings for handling the situation in Iraq. While still a low rating, it's up from 33% a month ago. Thirty-eight percent (38%) now say things will get better in Iraq over the next six months. That's up from 32% a month ago and 30% the month before.29%. Forty-one percent (41%) expect things to get worse, down from 45% the month before. At the beginning of 2005, just 28% of Americans thought the situation in Iraq would get better over the next six month. A Rasmussen Reports survey at the time found that 50% of Americans expected things to get worse. Forty percent (40%) of Americans believe that, in the long run, the U.S. mission in Iraq will be viewed as a success. Forty-five percent (45%) believe it will be viewed as a failure. Those figures also show increased optimism compared to last month. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #6 What Gremp said! |
| Posted by: Black Powa! 2005-12-02 23:00 |
| #5 No, but it's Friday and the bars are open and football season doesn't have all that long to go. Not sure about the phase of the moon but no doubt it's at work in bringing out the moonbats on both extremes too LOL. |
| Posted by: lotp 2005-12-02 21:03 |
| #4 Is LGF down again? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2005-12-02 18:53 |
| #3 Winning? BS! Bush chose to make alliances with Islamic tyrannies and pseudo democracies, and the result: the tyrannies hardened their positions while Islamofascist movements are poised to turf out the last remnants of Secularism in the Muslim gutter. Iraq? Shiite Iraq is effectively an Iranian colony. Iraqi Sunnis are at war with everybody. A recent Telegraph opinion poll reported 65% Iraqi support (more if Kurds are discounted) for attacks on US troops. Oil production is below 2003 levels. US troops now conduct few patrols, which explains the low number of IED deaths, while leaving huge areas of Iraq to genocidal militias. Where major attacks are made against terrorist strongholds, the enemy quickly fades into the harboring populace thereby squelching effective counter-terror. Culturally, the Shiites and Sunnis ape the same conspiracy garbage that comes out of the rest of those savage territories. When Bush first chose limited war measures against the only Secular government in Islamania,I wrote here that the US will face a hostile, burgeoning Islamofascist populace without effective means to neutralize the enemy. I also wrote that unless Bush resolves to liquidate Islamofascists on a mass scale the US will leave Iraq to the Iranian Mullatocracy, and will vacate same like the beaten dog simpering with its tail between its legs. Screw US party politics! If someone in office has to balls to properly define the mortal Islamofascist menace, then the necessary annihilation can begin. Characterizing redundant Bush folly as victory is pure denial. The best case scenario that I can see is: massive public support for Israel when that sole bright light in the stangnant Middle East swamp, starts nuking Iran by February. Americans will come to realize that Kandahar whould have been turned to charcoal within a week of 9-11. Bush blew counter-terror. Only the American people can save that war. Islamofascist hearts and minds are for bullets. |
| Posted by: Gremp Whomoth5716 2005-12-02 18:04 |
| #2 Well, I could certainly believe the terrorists are winning. I mean, listen to their stated goals: "I am prepared to die for Allah!" "We love death as you love life." "I will martyr myself for jihad!" And they have given 110% in achieving these goals. In fact, I would call the War on Terror a win-win situation. Keep up the good work, guys! |
| Posted by: BH 2005-12-02 13:49 |
| #1 And in other news: Democrats have given Saddam Hussein a shocking vote of confidence in the latest Fox News Opinion Dynamics survey, with a solid plurality saying the world would be better off if the Butcher of Baghdad was still in power. Forty-one percent of Democrats gave Saddam a thumbs up, while just 34 percent said Iraq is better served with the murderous dictator gone, reports the New York Post. In stark contrast, 78 percent of Republicans said toppling the mass-murdering leader left everyone better off. Just 10 percent said they wished Saddam still ruled Iraq. On the question of whether President Bush lied to the American people about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, 72 percent of Democrats say he did. Seventy-nine percent of Republicans disagreed, however -- saying that Bush gave the American people the best intelligence he had at the time. |
| Posted by: Steve 2005-12-02 13:29 |