Plurality in poll agrees with HRC that the US is safer now than on 9/10

[draft_mario_cuomo]

Hmm...I wonder if Mark Penn's polling for HRC showed the same result?

==Thursday, June 07, 2007

Forty-eight percent (48%) of Americans say the U.S. is safer today than it was before 9/11. That's up nine percentage points from 39% a month ago.

Seventy-five percent (75%) of Republicans believe the U.S. is safer today. Only 29% of Democrats share that view.

Overall, 38% disagree and say that the U.S. is not safer today than before 9/11.

Voters have grown slightly more confident in the long-term prospects of the War on Terror. Forty percent (40%) of Americans now believe that the United States and its allies are winning the War on Terror. That's up from 36% a month ago and the highest level of optimism since November. ==

Read the rest at http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/war_on_terror_update

This is damning for the Democrats. We have failed to explain to the American people how unsafe George Bush has made us. I am glad Edwards is stepping up to the plate today to make the case that we are less safe now than before * took office. I hope other leading Democrats follow his lead. We need a chorus of leading Democrats to sing out this case if we are to have any shot to get through the CMSM's bias and convince the public that we are less safe now due to *'s failed policies.

[napi21]

1. That's such a broad question, you can't rely on the results!

is: I believe we are safer in airplanes due to the hardened cocpit doors and more security personnel. I do believe we are safer because of the changes to certain items being banned from carryon bags.

However, I think we are LESS SAFE Globally because we have far fewer allies, and many more enemies.

So IMO, the question as aked can't realistically be answered with a one or two word answer!

[beachmom]

2. This is probably in regards to homeland security, where law enforcement

is well aware of the risks. I watched that pathetic focus group last week on CSPAN, and terrorism was way down their list because "everything was under control". They base things being safer on the fact that there hasn't been another attack. But as Bill Maher said once, the Arabs operate on a different clock. Based on THEIR clock, we're not due for another attack until 2009.

Put me in the 38% who think we're LESS safe. There are more terrorists now than ever on account of the Iraq War, and by law of averages, the more of them there are, the more likely some have gotten into the country (or are already here), and will attack again.