As Congress considers President Bush’s request for another $100 billion for Iraq, 68% of Americans want Bush to bring U.S. troops home within 6 months, according to a Democrats.com telephone poll of 628 adults conducted from May 1-4, 2008 by ICR ( http://www.icrsurvey.com ).
The poll marks a 14% increase from 54% in September. Most of that increase (11%) came from those who want Congress to require Bush to use existing funds to bring our troops safely home, bringing that total to 51% – a majority of Americans.
Broken down by party, 85% of Democrats want our troops home within 6 months, as do 78% of Independents. By contrast, only 32% of Republicans want our troops home soon.
Democratic support grew by 15% since September, and Independent support grew by 20%. By contrast, Republican support was unchanged.
The new poll differs slightly from last September’s poll because Congressional Democrats have proposed giving President Bush $70 billion more than he requested in order to avoid another unpopular funding vote before the November election.
The new poll asked: “President Bush wants Congress to spend 100 billion dollars more in tax dollars this year to keep U.S. troops in Iraq.” The comparison data below is only for the identical questions, with last September’s data immediately below in italics.
HERE ARE THE RESULTS:
http://democrats.com/iraq-poll-2