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Support for Sendming More Troops to Afghanistan Rises Slightly
Politics Daily —
... As news reports surface that President Obama may send as 25,000 to 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, a Gallup poll conducted Nov. 20-22 has found a modest uptick during the last two weeks in the number of Americans who support such a move. ...
Increased Support for More Troops in Afghanistan
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
Gallup: "Americans over the last two weeks have become slightly more likely to favor sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, and slightly less likely to favor a reduction in forces. At this point, 47% of Americans would advise President Obama to increase the number of U.S. troops -- either by the roughly 40,000 recommended by the commanding general in Afghanistan or by a smaller amount -- while 39% would advise Obama to reduce the number of troops."
Increased Support for More Troops in Afghanistan
The Political Carnival —
... Gallup: "Americans over the last two weeks have become slightly more likely to favor sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, and slightly less likely to favor a reduction in forces. At this point, 47% of Americans would advise President Obama to increase the number of U.S. troops -- either by the roughly 40,000 recommended by the commanding general in Afghanistan or by a smaller amount -- while 39% would advise Obama to reduce the number of troops." ...
Townhall.com Staff: Past Two Weeks Has Seen Increased Support For More Troops In Afghanistan
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
47% of Americans want to increase troops in Afghanistan, with an additional 9% of Americans wanting the number of troops to stay the same. ...
Poll: Voters warming to Afghan troop increase
News —
... Almost half of those surveyed in Gallup's latest measure, released Wednesday, indicated they would support a troop boost of some kind -- either the addition of 40,000 service members, as Gen. Stanley McChrystal first requested, or a number slightly less than that. ...
Wednesday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
... from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. * In a bit of a surprise, support for additional troops in Afghanistan is growing , not shrinking. * Israeli officials today ...
Report: Obama to Expand Afghan War by 50 percent
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... The president might also have more support among the public. Gallup has found that roughly 47 percent of Americans would advise sending more troops, up from 42 percent two weeks ago—not that they have any greater insight into Afghanistan than Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who envisions 18-year-old American GIs learning Pashto and squatting in villages. —PZS ...
The Prescient Joe Biden
JustOneMinute —
The NY Times Magazine fawns over Joe Biden in their latest cover story . But for some reason they don't cite as an example of his political acumen his success in predicting the collapse of Obama in the polls. Here is Joe from October 2008 :It certainly appears that Obama's reported decision to send more troops to Afghanistan won't be popular with his base . Per Gallup, 57% of Democrats think we should be reducing our troop commitment there.
A different kind of war-time sacrifice
Political Animal —
... troops. Obey makes no secret of his motives. He knows that deficits need to be reduced at some point and this will put pressure on spending programs he supports. "If we don't address the cost of this war, we will continue shoving billions of dollars in taxes off on future generations and will devour money that could be used to rebuild our economy," Obey explained in a press statement. It's also a test for the public. Support for escalation in Afghanistan appears, by some measures, to be growing . The question then becomes fairly straightforward -- do Americans expect future ...
Yike! Does The NY Times Realize Its Readers Lean Left?
JustOneMinute —
... American opinion we can take from the blogs that have reached this Web site", (if anyone can find a trackback list to other blogs, help me out). Which means that he is walking around thinking that the Great Unwashed are solidly anti-war because of the comments he scrolled through at the NY Times. Whoa - wait until he discovers the Huffington Post or the Daily Kos. And we shudder to think that other Times reporters or editors are laboring under a similar misconception. Well. This recent Gallup Poll finds that Among Democrats, however, 57% support a withdrawal. The ...
Health Care or Troops Surge in Afghanistan? Dems, GOPs Disagree Over Spending Priorities
The Note —
... surge focused on its costs vis-a-vis health care reform, while Republicans argued national security spending should come before costly domestic initiatives.According to a recent Gallup poll, Americans are almost evenly divided over whether they support sending more troops to Afghanistan. ...
Will We Pay For The Escalation In Afghanistan?
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
... we've yet to send, but to pay for the soldiers we have
already sent, in addition to the entitlements we've already promised,
and the programs we've already committed to funding. But I can't
imagine Congress has the energy to pass both a gas tax and cap and
trade in an election year.
A final, broader point. It's interesting that Obama was overwhelmingly elected
on a platform that included universal health care reform and an
escalation in Afghanistan. Today both of those issues are polling under 50%. It's been a long year for the White House, and the road to 2010 ...
Afghanistan Escalation Will (and Should) Hurt Congressional Democrats in 2010
Firedoglake —
... escalation if they want to mitigate their losses in 2010. If they don’t, the Democratic base should (and likely will) sit this one out.
Democrats emphatically oppose the war in Afghanistan and the president’s latest escalation. Prior to the president’s announcement at West Point, 61 percent of Democrats opposed sending more troops to Afghanistan versus 27 who supported an escalation [FOX News/Opinion Dynamics Poll. Nov. 17-18, 2009]. A USA TODAY/Gallup poll on November 20-22 found that 57 percent of Democrats wanted to start bringing ...
Test file
Politics Daily —
... dips below the 50-percent mark, Obama seems oddly impervious to the do-something grumbles from congressional Democrats and the chortles from Republican leaders. A less self-contained president might be influenced by a recent Gallup Poll showing that 57 percent of Democrats want to reduce rather than increase troop levels in Afghanistan. A more naturally empathetic president might avoid even a hint of a self-congratulatory tone when talking about the moribund economy. But after a Cabinet meeting last week, Obama declared, "Our economy is growing for the first time in more ...
