Posted on 11/29/2007 10:16:59 AM PST by FocusNexus
Confidence in the War on Terror increased for the fourth straight month in November and is now near the highest level of President Bush's second term in office.
The latest Rasmussen Reports tracking poll finds that 47% of Americans now say the U.S. and its allies are winning the War on Terror (see crosstabs). That's up from 43% a month ago and reflects is the highest level of confidence measured since December 2005. Over the past 35 months, confidence in the War on Terror has been higher than today only twice, in November and December 2005.
The 47% who believe the U.S. and its allies are winning is up significantly from earlier in the year. During the first nine months of 2007, the number believing that the U.S. fell as low as 33% and reached the 40% level just once. During calendar year 2006, an average of 40% believed the U.S. and its allies were winning. That average was 45% in 2005.
In what may be just as significant a finding, only 24% of voters now believe the terrorists are winning. That's down from 30% a month ago and represents the lowest level of pessimism recorded since 2004.
The Rasmussen Reports telephone survey also found that 35% of all American voters expect things to get better in Iraq over the next six months while 32% expect the situation to get worse. That's the first time in years that a plurality has given a positive assessment on the situation in Iraq. The recent increase in optimism is substantial. Just four months ago, in July, 49% of American voters offered a pessimistic assessment of the situation in Iraq and only 23% expected things to get better.
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“There is also a significant difference in partisan perceptions. Seventy-three percent (73%) believe the U.S. and its allies are winning the War on Terror. That view is shared by 24% of Democrats and 47% of those not affiliated with either major political party. “
Democrats are the party of defeatism.
Reid and Pelosi deeply saddened
with the msm ignoring the positives in iraq, i wonder why the change in opinion?
Let’s SURGE “the Surge” BUMP
p.s. anyone ever hear about what happened to portraitofamerica.com ? they were fairly reliable pollsters.
Interesting. 24% of Democrats aren't traitors to our country.
Until I see the internals this poll (spit) is, as usual, worthless.
I want to know what the numbers on Congress are.
The Democrats are committed to the policy of nonintervention in the Middle East. God help Israel and Lebanon if they win the Presidency.
People noticed that it suddenly got quiet over there. Obviously, despite their best efforts, the MSM could not keep people from noticing from June on—when the “surge” really began,” that we were suceeding. If a year from now, the place has really settled down and the economy hasn’t gone south, , the Democratic candidate won’t be picking a cabinet.
What’s good for America is bad for the DemocRATs. They are fully vested in American defeat.
The Democratic base, apart from the blacks and Hispanics, is fully European in outlook. Social Democrats.
Lucky for the Dhimmicrats that GWB is a Lame Duck. I mean, how much worse can it get for those losers?
Bush to Dems: Approve Iraq war funding before Christmas
(Pentagon planning layoffs)
cnn.com | Nov 29, 2007 | AP
Posted on 11/29/2007 6:24:43 PM EST by RDTF
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Don’t tell them. Let them campaign against Bush, as if he’ll still matter after the 2008 election.
Ditto! Last I heard was 11%. Knowing how skewed these so- called polls (spit) are, my guess is that they are in the single digits--mid.
You can’t script this any better. As we entered the 2008 election year, the Democrats own rhetoric is going to kill them come November if Iraq continues to regain stability.
Had Reid, Pelosi, Murth, Hoyer, Durbin, etc kept their mouths shut, the coming election cycle would have been theirs to control via legislative gambits the Majority can produce from thin air.
1984On the sixth day of Hate Week... Winston was taking part in a demonstration in one of the central London squares... On a scarlet-draped platform an orator of the Inner Party, a small lean man with disproportionately long arms and a large bald skull over which a few lank locks straggled, was haranguing the crowd. A little Rumpelstiltskin figure, contorted with hatred, he gripped the neck of the microphone with one hand while the other, enormous at the end of a bony arm, clawed the air menacingly above his head. His voice, made metallic by the amplifiers, boomed forth an endless catalogue of atrocities, massacres, deportations, lootings, rapings, torture of prisoners, bombing of civilians, lying propaganda, unjust aggressions, broken treaties. It was almost impossible to listen to him without being first convinced and then maddened. At every few moments the fury of the crowd boiled over and the voice of the speaker was drowned by a wild beast-like roaring that rose uncontrollably from thousands of throats. The most savage yells of all came from the schoolchildren. The speech had been proceeding for perhaps twenty minutes when a messenger hurried on to the platform and a scrap of paper was slipped into the speaker's hand. He unrolled and read it without pausing in his speech. Nothing altered in his voice or manner, or in the content of what he was saying, but suddenly the names were different. Without words said, a wave of understanding rippled through the crowd. Oceania was at war with Eastasia! The next moment there was a tremendous commotion. The banners and posters with which the square was decorated were all wrong! ...The Hate continued exactly as before, except that the target had been changed. The thing that impressed Winston in looking back was that the speaker had switched from one line to the other actually in midsentence, not only without a pause, but without even breaking the syntax... Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. A large part of the political literature of five years was now completely obsolete.
by George Orwell
“You can’t script this any better. As we entered the 2008 election year, the Democrats own rhetoric is going to kill them come November if Iraq continues to regain stability.”
That’s why they are still trying to sabotage it, by not funding it and insisting that the language for withdrawal to be included. Dems are the enemy within.
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