NW Arkansas : "Bring Home the Troops, Majority Says"

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http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/10738.htm


FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - According to a new poll, Northwest Arkansans - who have tended to be conservative and vote Republican - reflect the sentiments of Americans as a whole about the war in Iraq.

These and other findings were released Tuesday, May 15, as part of the 2007 Northwest Arkansas Omnibus Survey, conducted by the University of Arkansas Survey Research Center. The survey, taken between March 28 and April 12, gauged sentiments of 602 residents of Benton, Washington, Carroll and Madison counties.


The researchers also broke down results by county and gender. Interestingly, 54 percent of residents from Benton and Washington counties believed the United States made a mistake in sending troops to Iraq, while 70 percent of Carroll- and Madison-county residents thought the United States made a mistake. Only a slim majority of men (51.5 percent) in the four-county area thought the United States made a mistake, but almost 60 percent of women thought the same.