Gallup: Iraq War is 'not necessarily a winning issue' for Democrats

[RamboLiberal]

Source: USA Today

Americans trust the "five best-known 2008 presidential candidates" (two Republicans, three Democrats) about equally to "recommend the right thing" to do about the war in Iraq, Jeffrey Jones and Joseph Carroll of the Gallup Poll write this morning.

They think that means that "despite public dissatisfaction with the war, it is not necessarily a winning issue for Democratic candidates."

In a July 23-26 national poll of 1,011 adults, Gallup asked this question: "Please tell me how much confidence you have in each of the following to do or to recommend the right thing for the war in Iraq -- a great deal, a fair amount, only a little, or almost none?"

Combining the answers "great deal" and "fair amount" produced these results:

• Republican Rudy Giuliani: 55%.
• Republican Sen. John McCain: 55%.
• Democratic Sen. Barack Obama: 54%.
• Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton: 51%.
• Democrat John Edwards: 50%.



Read more: http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/07/gallup-iraq-war.html

[tularetom]

1. It would be if they quit pussyfooting around it and expressed a sincere

opinion in favor of getting the hell out. The percentages are very close because the Dems have been pulling their punches since they are scared shitless of the Faux Noise channel and talk radio. The first Dem who makes a strong statement that the whole thing is a clusterfuck and needs to have the plug pulled right now will see their ratings rise dramatically.

[AndyTiedye]

11. Dems Are Scared of Faux Noose Because of What Faux Noose Always Manages to Do To Them

[OHdem10]

2. When you look at who the five candidates are

and the responses---I get the feeling TRUST was the
operative word. It looks like the people answering poll
identified whose judgement they trusted.

Certainly not what to do--Some candidates wish to end the
war some want to go on for some kind of success.

If you look at 5 candidates, I can see people showed
the candidates with the best judgemnt on how to deal with
Iraq.

[FreedomRain]

3. Just reflects the fact that

anyone could do better than what we got right now. My cat could probably poll 30% on this question!
:)

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. Whiskers '08!

[sandnsea]

8. That is so fucking not true at all

Giuliani and McCain wouldn't do a goddamn thing different than Bush. Is anybody listening to these dumbasses??

[supernova]

4. Why Guiliani?

Whatever has ever done to show expertise with military issues?

[sandnsea]

9. Why McCain - the war supporter?

What has he done to indicate he understands we have to get our troops off the front lines to have a chance of quelling the uprising. He still thinks we can "win".

[dfgrbac]

5. It's a winning issue -IF- they end the war!

That's the only way it is a winning issue for them. It is what they were elected to do by the people.

[sandnsea]

7. See what we're up against

Some dumbasses still think the right President can "win". If we don't stop worrying about Bush and start sticking ALL these policies on REPUBLICANS, we could lose again.

:argh:

[pschoeb]

10. The biggest reason for this, from this poll results, is that Democratic party members

Seem to trust Republican candidates more than Republican Party members trust Democratic candidates

If you look at the poll results broken down by party
http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=28252

you'll notice that Republicans trust Giuliani(75%) and McCain(67%) less than Democratic Party members trust Obama(78%) and Clinton(80%). But unfortunately Democratic Party members have a much higher trust in Giuliani(41%) and McCain(47%) than Republicans have for Obama(28%) and Clinton(15%). Independents are fairly equal in regards to all 4 of these candidates. I would say that Democratic Party people tend to err on the side of kindness in polls, and Republicans tend err on the side of vindictiveness. Therefore if you look at the "a fair amount" answers for Republicans candidates, my guess is that many of these were Democratic Party people, who answered "a great deal" towards the Democratic candidates. Whereas the Republicans tended to vote "almost none" when they answered about Democratic candidates, when they voted "a great deal" for their own. The upshot is that Democratic Party people who voted "a great deal" to Democratic Party candidates, but voted "a fair amount" for some Republicans, aren't going to vote for Republicans on this point. When you compare against their own parties trust Clinton(80%) and Obama(78%), beat Giuliani(75%) and McCain(67%). So Republicans who trust Obama and Clinton are more likely to vote for them in the General, than Democratic members who voted that they trust McCain and Giuliani.

[NuttyFluffers]

12. hasn't Gallup been a crack-smokin' poll for a while now?

or was it just Rasmussen?

i think so much of this stuff is just "Because My Employer Says So, Here's the Numbers to Back Him Up."