Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterPoll: Majority approve of Obama's new troop plan
Published 2/26/2009 at CNN.com - Politics
A new national poll indicates that a majority of Americans support President Barack Obama's plan to send 17,000 more U.S. troops to the war in Afghanistan.
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