Elon poll: 52 percent oppose military presence in Iraq

[supernova]

Source: Greensboro News-Record

Friday, Nov. 16, 2007 11:00 am

RALEIGH (AP) — More than half of adults in five Southern Atlantic states say the United States should no longer be in Iraq.

A poll released Friday by Elon University shows that 52 percent no longer support a military presence in Iraq. The same percentage of respondents also say they feel the war in Iraq was not worth fighting, compared with 40 percent who say it was worth it.

The survey involved 1,374 adults from households in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. It was conducted over the past two weeks and has a sampling error of plus or minus 2.7 percentage points.

The survey also found that 42 percent of adults say the war in Iraq has made the nation less safe, while more than 38 percent think the war has made the nation safer from terrorism.

Mods: The story is only four paragraphs long anyway.


Read more: http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071116/NRSTAFF/71116018

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Click the story to see a link for the poll data at Elon College.

I hereby officially dump the unofficial DU meme that southerners are stupid and need to get with the rest of the national program. They do. In spades. Even the ones who wouldn't be caught dead posting on DU.

edit: To clarify, this is a poll of Southerners by a well-known Southern University .. and a Quaker one at that.

[0007]

1. I wanna vote! nt

[ryanmuegge]

2. Only 52 percent, and only five years later.

Who cares?

[supernova]

3. I care because I live here. It's my home.

[Brrrp]

4. Because it's Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

Even the Southerners are against the war.

[supernova]

5. Thanks, Brrrp!

And Welcome to DU! :hi:

I added that clarification to the OP.

[ryanmuegge]

6. I doubt that it'll affect the presidential map, but who knows?

It's within the margin of error. It doesn't necessarily mean that these people are going to vote for the Democrats. Plus, I have a feeling these same people will be swayed by the Republicans' "the surge is working" PR campaign when they really turn it on after the primaries. These states are already inclined to vote for the Republicans anyway, at least in the national races. It probably won't take much to win them back.

[supernova]

7. Not if they keep harming veterans

and cutting veterans services.

* and Co forget that we have to live with these people when they come home, in whatver shape they are in. (If they come home alive.)

And if the bad treatement at WR and waits for treatment and services at VA hospitals keeps getting airplay, then yes, even staunchly Repub families will support the Dems because they know their own relatives need treatment and long term services. That is the one way we can get people who wouldn't traditionally vote Democratic to do so. We need to be making better use of that logic than we are now.

[defendandprotect]

9. Shouldn't that be 152% ---- ???? Not believable . . . !!!

[Tunkamerica]

8. Elon's not quaker, Guilford college is

Elon's United Church of Christ