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New Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows Americans view Obama as 'more effective' than Trump on Iran
https://news.yahoo.com/new-yahoo-news-you-gov-poll-shows-americans-view-obama-as-more-effective-than-trump-on-iran-211824219.html?.tsrc=bell-brknews
According to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll, Americans are evenly divided over President Trumps decision to kill Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani, but a plurality of the public opposes Trumps overall approach to the Islamic Republic and believes his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama was more effective in dealing with Tehran.
Conducted from Jan. 8 to 10 after Iranian ballistic missiles struck Iraqi bases in retaliation without causing American casualties and Trump declared that Iran appears to be standing down the poll found that 42 percent of Americans oppose Trumps approach to Iran (versus 36 percent who support it). Forty percent say Trump was wrong to withdraw from the Obama administrations nuclear treaty with Tehran (versus 35 percent who say he was right), while 41 percent say Trump has been less effective on Iran than Obama (versus 34 percent who say the current president has been more effective). On all three questions, about a quarter of respondents said they were either not sure or neutral.
The percentage of the public (38 percent) that approves of Trumps decision to kill Soleimani, which his campaign has been touting in fundraising emails and Facebook ads, is statistically indistinguishable from the percentage that disapproves (37 percent) a divide that may stem from the fact that only a third of Americans believe the administrations claim that Soleimani was planning an imminent attack on the U.S. (A slightly smaller proportion 29 percent disbelieved the claim; the rest were unsure.)
More Americans also said Trumps handling of recent events in the Middle East made them less likely to support him in the 2020 election (35 percent) than said they were more likely to support him as a result (29 percent). A plurality (36 percent) said Trumps approach would have no effect on their vote.
Not great numbers, given how incredibly uninformed people are. But I'll take it......
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And you gave it to him.