NY Times: Poll 'Reminiscent of Vietnam'
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Saturday, March 22, 2003
The New York Times reported Friday that a nationwide poll conducted Thursday evening found that more than two-thirds of Americans support President Bush’s handling of the Iraq crisis.
The Times said “support for President Bush's policy in Iraq has surged” – jumping more than 10 points from a week ago to 70 percent support today.
But the paper noted strong partisan divisions in the nation and claimed the situation is “reminiscent of the partisan divide that marked the later years of the Vietnam War.”
“While 93 percent of Republicans said they approved of Mr. Bush's handling of Iraq, just 50 percent of Democrats did. By contrast, President George Bush enjoyed overwhelming support, from Democrats and Republicans alike, for his Iraq policy at an equivalent point in the 1991 conflict: 94 percent of Republicans and 81 percent of Democrats said they supported that war, in which an allied coalition drove Iraq out of Kuwait after Saddam Hussein's forces invaded that country.”
Also, President Bush has not received the approval ratings his father received during the Gulf War, the paper claimed.
President Bush’s current job performance rating is 67 percent, while his father enjoyed a rating of 86 percent at similar point in the Gulf War.
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