CNN reports that a recently conducted poll has found that support for the war in Iraq is at an all time low:
the latest CNN-Opinion Research Corporation poll released Tuesday, 69 percent of those polled believe things are going badly in Iraq. Seventeen percent think the situation is improving.
Thirty percent of Americans polled say they favor the war, the lowest level of support on record. Two-thirds are opposed.
But there is more – not only are Americans as a whole more negative about the war, support for the war among Republicans is dropping as well:
Anti-war sentiment among Republican poll respondents has suddenly increased with 38 percent of Republicans now saying they oppose the war.
Moreover, 63 percent of Americans are ready to withdraw at least some troops from Iraq. Forty-two percent of Republicans agree.
Although those numbers speak in the advantage of the Democrats, there is a ‘but’: 54% believe that the war in Iraq is not morally justified. That is, of course, a majority, but it is not an overwhelming majority. It seems to me that Democrats are wise not to talk about the moral aspect of the war too much, but to, instead, focus on how badly the war has been handled and how much it has increased extremism, etc. Focus not on the moral aspects of the war, focus on the pragmatical aspects of the war, on how it has hurt American interests (in the region) etc.
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