48% Say U.S. Winning War on Terror

[ECH1969]

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.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/
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Can one speech really change public opinion this much? I doubt it. I happen to bet it is mostly from gas prices going down.

[goddess40]

1. 48% are stupid

or maybe the report is a lie, they wouldn't do that would they? ;)

[electropop]

2. I was puzzled for a minute, then noticed the source: Rasmussen.

That's "Rah-Rah-Reeps" Rasmussen. Whutever. The real number is probably more like 38% think we are "winning."

[ECH1969]

4. He had the number at

39% a month ago.

[electropop]

5. When it was more like 28%, I'm sure.

[ECH1969]

8. I often seem to notice some cherry picking

when it comes to polls.

Polls are what they are. They might be right, they might be wrong.

I simply watch a pollsters numbers and compaire them with past numbers from the same pollster to find movement in one way or the other and look for a trend. And, then I compire them with other polls.

That is the best way to read the polls. A poll isn't right because it has the number you want to see and it isn't wrong because it doesn't.

[electropop]

9. Rasmussen is consistently pro-Bush compared to all the major polls.

I just don't consider them mainstream.

[ECH1969]

11. That is because how he calculates

the numbers of Republicans and Democrats as locked in place from the numbers from the last election.

That doesn't mean his trend is any less important to watch then any other poll.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Define winning, someone.

in 25 words or less.

Just once, can anyone do it?

[dennis4868]

7. bombing a whole.....

bunch of people with White Phospherus.....

[Teaser]

6. "45% of Nancy Pelosi's Party?"

What the fuck kind of descriptor is that?

[electropop]

10. A Republican's description

of the "enemy" Party.

[porphyrian]

12. This only represents "Likely Voters" who answered by phone.

"The national telephone survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports November 30- December 1, 2005. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence."

[Don Claybrook]

13. What could've possibly changed in a month?

I know that this moronic repackaging of tired talking points labelled as a major speech didn't do it. I sure as hell don't think that news from Iraq would be causing the numbers to go up. Biased polling seems to be the only reasonable answer thus far.

[driver8]

14. In other news, 48% have their heads up their asses. n/t