{"id":9320,"date":"2006-12-12T16:15:22","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T21:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9320.html"},"modified":"2006-12-12T16:15:22","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T21:15:22","slug":"support-for-the-war-falls-below-well-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/support-for-the-war-falls-below-well-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Support for the war falls below, well, everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Josh Marshall&#8217;s readers raises <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/011523.php\">a really good point<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just to put things in perspective&#8230; with public approval solidly in the 20s, the war in Iraq is now less popular than a bevy of social issues that have long been considered political poison for Democrats. Imagine if a Democratic president and Congress had made any of these issues their #1 priority, as Bush has with Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>And they wonder why they lost the election?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wish I had thought of that. Three new national polls out today &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2006\/12\/11\/opinion\/polls\/main2247797.shtml\">CBS News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/12\/AR2006121200278.html\">WaPo\/ABC<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2006-12-11-iraq-poll_x.htm\">USAT\/Gallup<\/a> &#8212; all show support for the war completely bottoming out. Americans turned on the war quite a while ago, but now we&#8217;re looking at numbers in which a genuine national consensus emerges &#8212; 75% of Americans disapprove of Bush&#8217;s handling of the war; 62% believe it was not worth the costs, and a combined 61% believe we either cannot or will not win the war.<\/p>\n<p>And as Josh&#8217;s reader noted, the result is a political dynamic in which the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollingreport.com\/iraq.htm\">war in Iraq <\/a> is &#8220;less popular than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollingreport.com\/civil.htm\">gay marriage<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollingreport.com\/drugs.htm\">legalizing pot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollingreport.com\/guns.htm\">banning handguns<\/a>, and rescinding the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollingreport.com\/crime.htm\">death penalty<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, the next time you hear James Dobson saying, &#8220;The vast majority of Americans oppose gay marriage,&#8221; remember, gay marriage has stronger national support than the war in Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Josh Marshall&#8217;s readers raises a really good point. Just to put things in perspective&#8230; with public approval solidly in the 20s, the war in Iraq is now less popular than a bevy of social issues that have long been considered political poison for Democrats. Imagine if a Democratic president and Congress had made [&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-9320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320","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=9320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}