Poll: Narrow Majority Support Obama's Afghan Strategy -- USA Today
WASHINGTON — A narrow majority of Americans support President Obama's revamped strategy on Afghanistan, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Wednesday, but there are broad concerns that the costs of the war will sap the government's ability to address problems facing the nation at home.
Though the results underscore a significant selling job ahead for the White House, they also show a willingness by Democratic voters to back Obama despite their reservations about the war.
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My Comment: When you read the details of this poll, I quickly realized that there is no narrow majority support for Obama's Afghan strategy. USA Today cherry picked the results that they wanted to publicize, ignoring the results of questions in which it is clear that the majority of respondents were not in favor of the President's policy.
For example .... 80% are against the President's timetable for withdrawing, and only 40% are in favor of the number that is being deployed. How this can be construed as favoring the President's strategy is beyond me.
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