Poll: Most Say U.S. Prepared For Attacks
As the nation marks the seventh anniversary of 9/11, most Americans believe the U.S. is adequately prepared to deal with another terrorist attack against the country, according to a new CBS News poll.
In the poll, 52 percent said they thought the U.S. was adequately prepared, compared to 39 percent who said the U.S. was not prepared. This is the first time since March 2003 - right after the U.S. invasion of Iraq - that a majority held that opinion. As recently as last September, after the revelations of a failed terrorist plot in London that summer, 56 percent said the U.S. was not adequately prepared.
However, only about a third of Americans think another terror attack against the U.S. is likely in the coming months - with 29 percent saying it is somewhat likely and just seven percent saying it was very likely, the lowest number recorded since CBS News started asking this question after September 11, 2001. Six in ten Americans think it is not very likely there will be another terrorist attack.
A majority of men, Republicans and Independents, conservatives and moderates and voters who support John McCain for president all think the U.S. is prepared, while women, Democrats, liberals, and Barack Obama supporters are divided.
Americans give some credit to the Bush administration for making the country safer. Fifty percent say the administration's policies have improved the country's safety, about the same rating as they have given the White House for the last two years. Twenty-one percent say the administration's policies have made the country less safe, and 23 percent say they have had no effect.
President Bush's approval rating is now at 29 percent, slightly above the low of 25 percent reached this past summer. His approval has not climbed above 30 percent since April 2007.
The poll also finds that Americans do not have much confidence that the U.S. will capture or kill al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. Only 36 percent think bin Laden's capture is even somewhat likely, and only six percent think it is very likely - the lowest numbers recorded so far. Confidence in bin Laden's capture has declined dramatically over the seven years since 9/11 - in October 2001, 70 percent thought it was at least somewhat likely that bin Laden would be captured or killed. Now, almost that many, 60 percent, have little or no confidence in that happening.
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This poll was conducted by telephone September 5-7, 2008 among 738 respondents first interviewed by CBS News and the New York Times August 15-19, 2008. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire could be plus or minus four percentage points.
Copyright 2010 CBS. All rights reserved. In the poll, 52 percent said they thought the U.S. was adequately prepared, compared to 39 percent who said the U.S. was not prepared. This is the first time since March 2003 - right after the U.S. invasion of Iraq - that a majority held that opinion. As recently as last September, after the revelations of a failed terrorist plot in London that summer, 56 percent said the U.S. was not adequately prepared.
However, only about a third of Americans think another terror attack against the U.S. is likely in the coming months - with 29 percent saying it is somewhat likely and just seven percent saying it was very likely, the lowest number recorded since CBS News started asking this question after September 11, 2001. Six in ten Americans think it is not very likely there will be another terrorist attack.
A majority of men, Republicans and Independents, conservatives and moderates and voters who support John McCain for president all think the U.S. is prepared, while women, Democrats, liberals, and Barack Obama supporters are divided.
Americans give some credit to the Bush administration for making the country safer. Fifty percent say the administration's policies have improved the country's safety, about the same rating as they have given the White House for the last two years. Twenty-one percent say the administration's policies have made the country less safe, and 23 percent say they have had no effect.
President Bush's approval rating is now at 29 percent, slightly above the low of 25 percent reached this past summer. His approval has not climbed above 30 percent since April 2007.
The poll also finds that Americans do not have much confidence that the U.S. will capture or kill al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. Only 36 percent think bin Laden's capture is even somewhat likely, and only six percent think it is very likely - the lowest numbers recorded so far. Confidence in bin Laden's capture has declined dramatically over the seven years since 9/11 - in October 2001, 70 percent thought it was at least somewhat likely that bin Laden would be captured or killed. Now, almost that many, 60 percent, have little or no confidence in that happening.
Click Here To Read The Complete Poll
This poll was conducted by telephone September 5-7, 2008 among 738 respondents first interviewed by CBS News and the New York Times August 15-19, 2008. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire could be plus or minus four percentage points.
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New evidence has emerged that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was closely associated as early as age 25 to a key adviser to a Saudi billionaire who had mentored the founding members of the Black Panthers.
In a videotaped interview this year on New York%u2019s all news cable channel NY1, a prominent African-American businessman and political figure made the curious disclosures about Obama. (See Video Clip Below)
Percy Sutton, the former borough president of Manhattan, off-handedly revealed the unusual circumstances about his first encounter with the young Obama.
%u201CI was introduced to (Obama) by a friend who was raising money for him,%u201D Sutton told NY1 city hall reporter Dominic Carter.
%u201CThe friend%u2019s name is Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, from Texas,%u201D Sutton said. %u201CHe is the principal adviser to one of the world%u2019s richest men. He told me about Obama.%u201D
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obama_sutton_saudi/2008/09/03/127490.html?CFID=1173319&CFTOKEN=52737457
HUSSEIN plans to GUT the MILITARY if he becomes PRESIDENT,,,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl32Y7wDVDs
he will basically disban our military and hault all new weapons programs,,,
and leave the usa defenseless to our enemies,,,
I would be curious to know how many of those polled lived along one of the nation''s borders, or observed the operations within a U.S. ocean port as part of their daily lives.
Looks like YOU''RE the one who ISN''T GETTING THE MESSAGE.
Posted by tootall10142 at 10:05 AM : Sep 11, 2008
Well, how nice. Our tax dollars at work, keeping the world safe for the druggies. Too bad the same effort isn''t being made to ensure a supply of JOBS FOR PEOPLE WHO WERE BORN HERE. Gotta have those priorities, don''t you.
So, what do you do if you find a BAD BATCH? Issue a public service warning to the druggies that their drugs JUST MIGHT be poisoned...?
Posted by listenupfool at 09:55 AM : Sep 11, 2008
Yah, keep telling yourself that, FOOL.
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