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low preference guy
03-07-2011, 03:34 PM
HotAir commentary:


The erosion goes across partisan lines. In September 2009, only 19% of Republicans and 28% of independents wanted troops brought home immediately or within a one-year fixed timetable. Eighteen months later, it’s now 37% of Republicans and 45% of independents. Democrats have also shifted from 61% in September 2009 to 73% in March 2011.

Link (http://hotair.com/archives/2011/03/07/rasmussen-majority-wants-out-of-afghanistan-within-a-year/)

specsaregood
03-07-2011, 03:51 PM
Well dang thats enough to win the primary with.

Thomas
03-07-2011, 05:02 PM
Politicians, Not Education and Not Public Opinion, Make Policy
http://training4liberty.org/facl/important_info.html

Feeding the Abscess
03-07-2011, 05:04 PM
I still think Ron should basically reprise his 2007/08 campaign. The audience for that material is now ripe for the picking.

low preference guy
03-07-2011, 05:06 PM
Politicians, Not Education and Not Public Opinion, Make Policy
http://training4liberty.org/facl/important_info.html

That doesn't mean it is equally easy for politicians to do what they want regardless of public opinion.

Also, public opinion sometimes changes who are the politicians. Rand Paul, for example, was elected when government debt became an important issue for an important number of voters.

Brett85
03-07-2011, 05:10 PM
Good news. Now it would be nice if our elected leaders would actually listen to public opinion.

emazur
03-07-2011, 05:21 PM
3/7/'11 Gates Says U.S. May Stay in Afghanistan Past 2014 Deadline (http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/in-surprise-afghanistan-visit-gates-says-u-s-may-stay-past-2014-deadline-20110307)

Lucille
03-07-2011, 05:36 PM
HotAir commentary:

Link (http://hotair.com/archives/2011/03/07/rasmussen-majority-wants-out-of-afghanistan-within-a-year/)

jp, RPDS sufferer and neocon fascist extraordinaire, linked to this in the comments:

Sarah Palin: America’s Foreign Policy Messiah? (http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/02/21/the-tea-party-and-u-s-foreign-policy/) (Published in the IHT under the headline "The Tea Party and US Foreign Policy")


The first is that the contest in the Tea Party between what might be called its Palinite and its Paulite wings will likely end in a victory for the Palinites. The Palinite wing of the Tea Party (after Sarah Palin) wants a vigorous, proactive approach to the problem of terrorism in the Middle East, one that rests on a close alliance between the United States and Israel. The Paulite wing (Rand Paul) would rather distance the United States from Israel as part of a general reduction of the United States’ profile in a part of the world from which little good can be expected.

The Paulites are likely to lose this contest because the commonsense reasoning of the American people now generally takes as axiomatic that security at home cannot be protected without substantial engagement overseas.

;P

nobody's_hero
03-07-2011, 06:27 PM
Majority wants out of Afghanistan within a year

Haven't they been saying this for the past few years?