McClatchy: More GOP voters keen to exit Iraq; could shape '08 race

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GOP voters keen to exit Iraq; could shape '08 race
By Margaret Talev | McClatchy Newspapers

* Posted on Wed, June 27, 2007

WASHINGTON — One in three Republican voters favors withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, according to a new survey, a growing trend that could shape the 2008 presidential contest and lead more Republican lawmakers in Congress to abandon support for President Bush's troop buildup.

While only 7 percent of Republican voters want troops withdrawn immediately, 27 percent think that the Bush administration needs to set some "timeline" for withdrawal, once a taboo word in party circles. Still, 63 percent remain opposed to any timeline. Fabrizio, McLaughlin and Associates, a Republican research firm, conducted the survey of 2,000 self-described Republicans from May 28 to June 3.

The survey also found that Republican voters are most concerned with national security and foreign affairs (28 percent), while morality issues fell to second place (24 percent).

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1. The majority of candidates will go for the 63%

But it will fall by next year and an antiwar candidate could sneak in.