Previous War on Terror survey
| National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Conducted November 4-5, 2006 by Rasmussen Reports | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Winning War on Terror | Vote for Control of Senate | Iraq | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| LV | Men | Women | 18-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | GOP | Dem | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | Not Sure | U.S. and Allies | Terrorists | Neither | Not Sure | GOP | Democrat | Not Sure | Very Important | Somewhat Important | Not Very Important | Not at All Important | Not Sure | ||
| Winning War on Terror | U.S. and Allies | 40% | 44% | 36% | 41% | 39% | 43% | 39% | 38% | 41% | 31% | 47% | 72% | 21% | 29% | 63% | 30% | 18% | 37% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 81% | 13% | 22% | 34% | 47% | 63% | 60% | 34% |
| Terrorists | 32% | 30% | 34% | 31% | 27% | 31% | 36% | 33% | 31% | 43% | 25% | 12% | 53% | 28% | 16% | 35% | 53% | 37% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 5% | 52% | 21% | 42% | 21% | 8% | 15% | 10% | |
| Neither | 23% | 23% | 23% | 21% | 33% | 21% | 19% | 22% | 24% | 21% | 18% | 12% | 23% | 36% | 15% | 29% | 26% | 25% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 10% | 28% | 53% | 20% | 26% | 26% | 26% | 47% | |
| Not Sure | 5% | 3% | 7% | 7% | 1% | 5% | 5% | 7% | 4% | 5% | 10% | 5% | 4% | 7% | 6% | 6% | 3% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 3% | 7% | 3% | 4% | 7% | 3% | 0% | 9% | |
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Winning War on Terror | Vote for Control of Senate | Iraq | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| LV | Men | Women | 18-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | GOP | Dem | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | Not Sure | U.S. and Allies | Terrorists | Neither | Not Sure | GOP | Democrat | Not Sure | Very Important | Somewhat Important | Not Very Important | Not at All Important | Not Sure | ||
| Iraq--Next Six Months | Better | 26% | 29% | 23% | 24% | 28% | 27% | 24% | 28% | 26% | 29% | 27% | 50% | 11% | 17% | 45% | 18% | 7% | 23% | 58% | 2% | 7% | 3% | 57% | 6% | 11% | 22% | 29% | 52% | 46% | 8% |
| Worse | 51% | 49% | 53% | 54% | 46% | 47% | 55% | 51% | 51% | 55% | 45% | 25% | 74% | 50% | 28% | 58% | 76% | 58% | 19% | 91% | 51% | 45% | 16% | 78% | 35% | 63% | 39% | 17% | 30% | 14% | |
| About the Same | 15% | 16% | 14% | 17% | 16% | 16% | 14% | 13% | 16% | 10% | 12% | 16% | 10% | 21% | 15% | 19% | 10% | 10% | 14% | 5% | 33% | 12% | 17% | 11% | 40% | 10% | 21% | 24% | 23% | 42% | |
| Not Sure | 8% | 6% | 9% | 6% | 10% | 10% | 7% | 8% | 7% | 7% | 16% | 9% | 5% | 12% | 11% | 5% | 6% | 9% | 9% | 1% | 9% | 40% | 10% | 6% | 14% | 6% | 12% | 7% | 0% | 36% | |
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Winning War on Terror | Vote for Control of Senate | Iraq | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| LV | Men | Women | 18-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | GOP | Dem | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | Not Sure | U.S. and Allies | Terrorists | Neither | Not Sure | GOP | Democrat | Not Sure | Very Important | Somewhat Important | Not Very Important | Not at All Important | Not Sure | ||
| Long-Term--Iraq Seen As | Success | 34% | 36% | 32% | 38% | 36% | 33% | 32% | 31% | 33% | 37% | 35% | 65% | 14% | 23% | 59% | 22% | 10% | 27% | 72% | 4% | 11% | 16% | 71% | 8% | 23% | 30% | 36% | 55% | 54% | 16% |
| Failure | 50% | 49% | 52% | 47% | 48% | 50% | 54% | 52% | 52% | 48% | 43% | 20% | 75% | 55% | 25% | 56% | 82% | 51% | 11% | 93% | 60% | 53% | 10% | 81% | 43% | 60% | 41% | 17% | 37% | 52% | |
| Not Sure | 16% | 15% | 16% | 16% | 16% | 18% | 14% | 17% | 15% | 15% | 22% | 15% | 11% | 23% | 16% | 22% | 7% | 22% | 16% | 3% | 29% | 31% | 19% | 11% | 34% | 10% | 23% | 28% | 9% | 33% | |
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Winning War on Terror | Vote for Control of Senate | Iraq | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| LV | Men | Women | 18-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | GOP | Dem | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | Not Sure | U.S. and Allies | Terrorists | Neither | Not Sure | GOP | Democrat | Not Sure | Very Important | Somewhat Important | Not Very Important | Not at All Important | Not Sure | ||
| Bush on Iraq | Excellent | 11% | 11% | 11% | 14% | 15% | 10% | 10% | 9% | 11% | 8% | 14% | 25% | 3% | 6% | 22% | 5% | 5% | 9% | 25% | 2% | 2% | 0% | 28% | 1% | 1% | 13% | 6% | 14% | 33% | 4% |
| Good | 20% | 22% | 18% | 11% | 21% | 25% | 20% | 25% | 22% | 11% | 18% | 37% | 7% | 18% | 36% | 13% | 4% | 30% | 41% | 2% | 9% | 15% | 46% | 2% | 14% | 12% | 30% | 42% | 30% | 19% | |
| Fair | 15% | 15% | 14% | 15% | 11% | 18% | 13% | 18% | 16% | 9% | 10% | 17% | 13% | 14% | 15% | 19% | 9% | 3% | 19% | 7% | 19% | 12% | 18% | 10% | 33% | 11% | 21% | 28% | 0% | 13% | |
| Poor | 54% | 52% | 56% | 60% | 53% | 47% | 57% | 49% | 50% | 73% | 57% | 21% | 78% | 60% | 28% | 62% | 82% | 58% | 15% | 89% | 69% | 72% | 8% | 87% | 50% | 64% | 43% | 16% | 30% | 62% | |
| Not Sure | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 7% | 2% | |
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Winning War on Terror | Vote for Control of Senate | Iraq | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| LV | Men | Women | 18-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | GOP | Dem | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | Not Sure | U.S. and Allies | Terrorists | Neither | Not Sure | GOP | Democrat | Not Sure | Very Important | Somewhat Important | Not Very Important | Not at All Important | Not Sure | ||
| US--Safer Today Than Before 9/11 | Yes | 42% | 46% | 37% | 43% | 42% | 44% | 41% | 38% | 42% | 37% | 41% | 74% | 19% | 33% | 68% | 28% | 19% | 34% | 79% | 12% | 21% | 26% | 84% | 15% | 15% | 34% | 52% | 62% | 60% | 31% |
| No | 45% | 45% | 46% | 45% | 50% | 42% | 47% | 45% | 45% | 50% | 42% | 19% | 67% | 48% | 21% | 57% | 68% | 46% | 14% | 79% | 56% | 41% | 8% | 71% | 53% | 56% | 33% | 16% | 35% | 37% | |
| Not Sure | 13% | 9% | 16% | 12% | 8% | 14% | 13% | 17% | 12% | 13% | 17% | 7% | 14% | 18% | 10% | 15% | 13% | 20% | 8% | 9% | 23% | 33% | 7% | 14% | 32% | 10% | 15% | 22% | 5% | 32% | |
