CNN Poll: Obama not making U.S. less safe

[Nonno]

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"WASHINGTON (CNN) – A new poll indicates Americans don't agree with former Vice President Dick Cheney's recent assertion that President Barack Obama's actions have increased the chances of a terrorist attack against the United States.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey also suggests that most people support the president's plans in Afghanistan — up to a point.

Seventy-two percent of those questioned in the poll released Monday disagree with Cheney's view that some of Obama's actions have put the country at greater risk, with 26 percent agreeing with the former vice president.

In a March 15 interview on CNN's "State of the Union with John King," Cheney said the Bush administration's anti-terror strategies "were absolutely essential to the success we enjoyed of being able to collect the intelligence that led us to defeat all further attempts to launch attacks against the United States since 9/11."

"I think that's a great success story," Cheney said. "President Obama campaigned against it all across the country. And now he is making some choices that, in my mind, that will in fact raise the risk to the American people of another attack."

Vice President Joe Biden, in an interview last week with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, fired back, calling Cheney "dead wrong."

On CNN's "The Situation Room," Biden also said that the previous administration left the United States in a "weaker posture than we've been any time since World War II: less regarded in the world, stretched more thinly than we ever have been in the past, two wars under way, virtually no respect in certain parts of the world."

"We are more safe. We are more secure," he added. "Our interests are more secure, not just at home, but around the world. We are rebuilding America's ability to lead."

CNN Polling Director Keating Holland pointed out the partisan divide evident in the results. "By a 53 percent to 46 percent margin, Republicans agree with Dick Cheney," he said. "But more than nine in 10 Democrats believe that Obama has not made the country less safe from terrorism. They are joined by more than seven in 10 independents who don't see an increase in the threat from terrorism since Obama took office.""

[ylexot (Premo)]

Less than 1% of the population have a clue about what threats are out there and if that threat has grown or shrunk over the past several months. That poll is worth less than the electrons being used to store it on the hard drive.

[Pete (Premo)]

Originally Posted by ylexot

Less than 1% of the population have a clue about what threats are out there and if that threat has grown or shrunk over the past several months. That poll is worth less than the electrons being used to store it on the hard drive.

75% of the population think Paris Hilton is an interesting and influential person.

[MMDad (Premo)]

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Originally Posted by Pete

75% of the population think Paris Hilton is an interesting and influential person.

Her home movie influenced me!

[ImnoMensa]

I guess it's just too bad that polls dont run the world? Oh they just run the Dems world? Now I understand.

[depechemode]

I am a moderate leaning to the left and I rolled my eyes at this...seriously a poll? from CNN? How biased can one be.

[cwo_ghwebb]

I wonder what the internal metrics of this poll look like. If they are as in the past, CNN has skewed the numbers, polling twice as many Liberals as Conservatives.

[otter (Premo)]

Originally Posted by cwo_ghwebb

I wonder what the internal metrics of this poll look like. If they are as in the past, CNN has skewed the numbers, polling twice as many Liberals as Conservatives.

But thats what CNN is spewing now, Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1..

[SamSpade]

The electorate is somewhat evenly divided among Democrat, Republican and Independent, with everyone else statistically too small to reach a percentage point.

Right now the distribution is about 39, 33 and 28 (D,R,I). The only significant change in these numbers over the past few years is that more people are identifying as Independent.

[cwo_ghwebb]

Cheney's words outraged Team Obama. But the Bush sources I spoke to not only supported Cheney but wondered what the fuss was about. Didn't Obama and other Democrats spend years accusing Bush, the sitting president, of making America less safe? (Indeed they did; you can look it up.)

www.washingtonexaminer.com >> Politics

The current president and his team are being "gratuitous, slightly petty, and slightly obsessive in blaming Bush for things," one former White House adviser told me.

Agree with the second quote. Amazing how thin-skinned Donks appear.