{"id":11679,"date":"2007-08-02T12:48:49","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T16:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11679.html"},"modified":"2007-08-02T12:48:49","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T16:48:49","slug":"gop-loses-its-advantage-on-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/gop-loses-its-advantage-on-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP loses its advantage on terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new NBC News\/Wall Street Journal <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/resources\/documents\/WSJ0707_poll.pdf\">poll<\/a> (.pdf) includes most of the predictable numbers &#8212; Bush is unpopular, Americans are uneasy about the economy, etc. &#8212; but respondents were also asked which party they trusted more to handle various policy issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Dems enjoy <i>huge<\/i>, double-digit advantages on every domestic issue (environment, health care, education, gas prices, budget deficit, taxes, energy policy, and immigration). Republicans still lead on &#8220;promoting a strong military&#8221; and &#8220;dealing with homeland security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But when asked which party is more trustworthy on dealing with the &#8220;war on terrorism,&#8221; it was the only question on which Americans were divided right down the middle &#8212; 29% said Dems, 29% said Republicans, 20% said both, and 18% said neither.<\/p>\n<p>In and of itself, that&#8217;s not particularly surprising, but the trend is noteworthy. In October 2002, the GOP enjoyed a 36-point advantage on this question. But end of 2003, it had slipped to a 26-point lead. In early 2004, it slipped a few more points, and in late 2004, a few more still. By last fall, the Republicans led Dems on the question by 10 points, and now the GOP advantage has <em>disappeared altogether<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>How long, do you suppose, will the media continue to report that Republicans still enjoy far more public trust on terrorism than Dems?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new NBC News\/Wall Street Journal poll (.pdf) includes most of the predictable numbers &#8212; Bush is unpopular, Americans are uneasy about the economy, etc. &#8212; but respondents were also asked which party they trusted more to handle various policy issues. The Dems enjoy huge, double-digit advantages on every domestic issue (environment, health care, education, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}