Poll details: Majority in US oppose both wars

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Poll details: Majority in US oppose both wars

By The Associated Press (AP) – 1 day ago

A majority of Americans oppose both the war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq, though the war in Afghanistan is a little more popular. Here are details:

OVERALL RESULTS: 34 percent favor the war in Iraq and 63 percent are opposed; 44 percent favor the war in Afghanistan and 53 percent are opposed.

PARTISAN DIFFERENCES: 64 percent of Republicans are in favor of the war in Iraq and just 10 percent of Democrats are; 66 percent of Republicans favor the war in Afghanistan, as do 26 percent of Democrats.

PRESIDENT'S RATING: 56 percent of Americans approve of President Barack Obama's handling of the situation in Iraq, and 55 percent approve of his handling of Afghanistan. Both numbers are down just slightly since April.

THE FUTURE: 68 percent think it is likely that Obama will be able to pull most troops out of Iraq in the next four years, but that's down from 83 percent before his inauguration.

METHODOLOGY: The AP-GfK Poll was conducted July 16-20 and involved landline and cell phone interviews with 1,006 adults nationwide. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. ... http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ilEurPdCgm_t5kD1mnU3rYmSwQsAD99K7VL01

[FiveGoodMen]

1. America wakes up? Our only hope.

[kenny blankenship]

2. That's too bad.

If this country was one of those pinko majority rules countries they might have a leg to stand on. And if this country wasn't so crazy for landmines, other people might have a leg to stand on.
But it's not like that. We don't do body counts and we don't care what majorities think.

They were just born in the wrong country if they don't like war.

[Curtland1015]

3. To be FAIR... sometimes we don't want the majority to rule.

Certainly we do in THIS case, I'm not going to argue there!

[TexasObserver]

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