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Elon, N.C. — About 65 percent of North Carolina residents disapprove of the way President George W. Bush is handling the war in Iraq, according to the latest Elon University poll.
But the number is a slight improvement for the president since April, when 70 percent of respondents expressed unhappiness with his management of the conflict.
The increase in support for the president’s war-handling coincides with a small increase in the number of people who approve of the president’s overall job performance.
Thirty-eight percent of those surveyed either approve or strongly approve of Bush’s performance, compared with 36 percent of respondents from the Elon University Poll conducted April 16-19, 2007.
The poll, conducted Sept. 24-27 by the Elon University Institute for Politics and Public Affairs, surveyed 664 North Carolina residents. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percent.
Poll: Local Approval of Bush's Handling of Iraq Up Slightly
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If you go to this web site, www.LetsSayThanks.com you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq . You can't pick out who gets it, but it will go to some member of the armed services.
October 2, 2007 6:03 p.m.
Alas, my brain is clearinghouse of useless quotes and other trivia. (Which I sometimes get wrong, but refuse to check on google because I put my trust in good ol' fashioned books - not this new fangled technology.)
October 1, 2007 6:32 p.m.
Come on, fess up."
Of course I did. Who in their right mind keeps things like that in their head?
October 1, 2007 6:25 p.m.
You googled it didn't you.
Come on, fess up.
October 1, 2007 6:20 p.m.
I wouldn't make that assumption. We have a professional military and, though the young Marine lugging a SAW might not know much about the culture (an assumption I would not make), I assure you his platoon commander does. It's his job to know that stuff.
Whether we really understand it is a different issue. As westerners, I don't think you can truly appreciate a culture that would do the things that are being done over there. And may God have mercy on us if we ever do truly understand it.
October 1, 2007 6:19 p.m.