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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....

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To: Sully- who wrote (34526)8/4/2010 1:46:16 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Obama Hits New Low in Gallup

Daniel Foster
The Corner
August 03, 2010 12:12 PM

The latest USAToday/Gallup poll shows President Obama’s job approval rating at 41 percent, a historic low. The down-tick is driven in large measure by decreased support for the president’s handling of the war in Iraq, and especially the war in Afghanistan:

<<< Public support for President Obama’s Afghanistan war policy has plummeted amid a rising U.S. death toll and the unauthorized release of classified military documents, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows.

Support for Obama’s management of the war fell to 36%, down from 48% in a February poll. Now, a record 43% also say it was a mistake to go to war there after the terrorist attacks in 2001.

The decline in support contributed to the lowest approval ratings of Obama’s presidency. Amid a lengthy recession, more Americans support his handling of the economy (39%) than the war.

Even Obama’s handling of the war in Iraq received record-low approval, despite a drawdown of 90,000 troops and the planned, on-schedule end of U.S. combat operations there this month. >>>

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