The media have been obsessed by all the polling going on during the health care debate, but seem not to mention this one very much.
A new national poll indicates that support among Americans for the war in Afghanistan has hit a new low.
Forty-one percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday say they favor the war in Afghanistan -- down 9 points from May, when CNN polling suggested that half of the public supported the war.
Fifty-four percent say they oppose the war in Afghanistan, up 6 points from May.
"Afghanistan is almost certainly the Obama policy that Republicans like the most," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said. "Nearly two-thirds of Republicans support the war in Afghanistan. Three-quarters of Democrats oppose the war."
A record 44 United States troops were killed in Afghanistan in July, and 11 have been killed this month.
It's interesting that David Gregory suddenly is interested in a time table for the end of the war.
MR. GREGORY: At least a decade, though? I mean...
GEN. JONES: No, no, no. No.
MR. GREGORY: ...should Americans really settle--it's less than a decade, you think, in terms of...
GEN. JONES: Yeah, I think, I think, I...
MR. GREGORY: ...our commitment.
GEN. JONES: You can't predict here where the tipping point is, just like we couldn't really predict it in Iraq. But it will--if it's done right and if it's done cohesively, the tipping point will be much, much quicker, much sooner than that. We will know whether this strategy is working in--within, within the--by the, by the end of the next year, and we'll be able to make some prediction--maybe some predictions at that time. But not before.
I mean, all progressives want it over, but since a Democratic president has been elected, Gregory suddenly has an interest in these things like never before. And maybe I missed it, but Gregory never brought up any polling either.
