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Poll: Iraq War Could Wound GOP at Polls

by Pamela Leavey
September 7th, 2006 @ 3:52 am

According to a new CNN Poll released on Wednesday, Bush’s unpopularity — “due largely to the war in Iraq — seems likely to affect GOP candidates in congressional midterm elections in November.”

Fifty-five percent of 1,004 Americans said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who has supported Bush administration policies, according to the poll conducted by Opinion Research Corporation on behalf of CNN. Forty percent said they would be more likely.

The war in Iraq appears to be a main factor in Republican opposition, poll results show. Fifty-eight percent of poll respondents said they are opposed to the war, compared with 39 percent who approve of it.

Other results from the poll include:

  • Sixty-two percent said they believe no one is winning the war; 25 percent said the United States is winning and 12 percent said the insurgents are winning.
  • Asked whether former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 52 percent said he was not, but 43 percent said they believe he was. The White House has denied Hussein’s 9/11 involvement — most recently in a news conference August 21, when President Bush said Hussein had “nothing” to do with the attacks.
  • Asked whether the Iraq war is part of the U.S.-led war on terror, 53 percent said they believe it is a separate action, while 45 percent said they believe it is connected, as the Bush administration has repeatedly insisted.


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    One Response to “Poll: Iraq War Could Wound GOP at Polls”

    1. Ginny in CO Said: on September 7th, 2006 at 10:17 am

      It’s the war, it’s the economy, it’s the war…

      Methinks it’s BOTH

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