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Survey of 1,000 Adults September 14-15, 2005
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September 17, 2005--Forty percent (40%) of Americans now believe the U.S. and its Allies are winning the War on Terror. That's up slightly from a month ago when just 38% thought the allies were winning. Last month's assessment was by far the most pessimistic ever recorded. During Election 2004, roughly half of all voters believed the U.S. and its allies were winning. The latest Rasmussen Reports survey also found that 36% believe the terrorists are winning. That's unchanged from a month ago and the highest level ever recorded. Huge partisan divisions on questions dealing with Iraq remain. Republicans by 68% to 16% margin overwhelmingly believe that the U.S. and its allies are winning. However, 54% of Democrats believe the terrorists are winning and 22% believe the U.S. is winning. Thirty-nine percent (39%) of those not affiliated with either major party say the terrorists are winning. Twenty-six percent (26%) take the opposite view. [More Below] Thirty-seven percent (37%) now believe that the U.S. is safer than it was before 9/11. That's down a point from last month. Thirty-six percent (36%) give the President good or excellent ratings for handling the situation in Iraq. That is unchanged from a month ago. Thirty percent (30%) now say things will get better in Iraq over the next six months. That's up from 29% a month ago but down from 33% two months ago. Forty-eight percent (48%) expect things to get worse. At the beginning of 2005, just 28% of Americans thought the situation in Iraq would get better over the next six month. A Rasmussen Reports survey at the time found that 50% of Americans expected things to get worse. Thirty-six percent (36%) of Americans believe that, in the long run, the U.S. mission in Iraq will be viewed as a success. Forty-eight percent (48%) believe it will be viewed as a failure. Those figures are also little changed from last month. Current results are not precisely comparable to 2004 survey results. Our 2004 data was based upon Interviews with Likely Voters. In 2005, our data is based upon a sample of American Adults. It is likely that this change could have a 2-3 percentage point impact on the reported results. National Security issues were the most important voting issues of Election 2004. Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information. Rasmussen Reports was the nation's most accurate polling firm during the Presidential election and the only one to project both Bush and Kerry's vote total within half a percentage point of the actual outcome. During Election 2004, RasmussenReports.com was also the top-ranked public opinion research site on the web. We had twice as many visitors as our nearest competitor and nearly as many as all competitors combined. Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, has been an independent pollster for more than a decade. To keep up with our latest releases, be sure to visit the Rasmussen Reports Home Page.
The national telephone survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports September 14-15, 2005. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. (see Methodology) |
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