(Fox News Poll) More Voters Blame Bush For Failure to Catch Bin Laden

[sabra]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,216299,00.html

More Voters Blame Bush For Failure to Catch Bin Laden

NEW YORK — By an 11-point margin, voters would give the edge to Democrats over Republicans if the congressional election were held today, yet slightly more Americans think the country would be safer from terrorism if Republicans keep control of Congress. And President George W. Bush’s approval rating is up a couple of points this week, although more voters blame the Bush administration than blame the Clinton administration for failing to capture Usama bin Laden.

These are just some of the findings from the latest FOX News poll.

There has been considerable finger pointing recently between former President Bill Clinton and members of the Bush administration about whose fault it is that Usama bin Laden is still at large.

By a 10-percentage point margin, the poll finds that more Americans blame the Bush administration than the Clinton administration for failing to capture bin Laden (32 percent-22 percent), while quite a few say either that both are to blame (21 percent) or neither is (17 percent).

More Democrats blame Bush for not capturing bin Laden than Republicans blame Clinton. A 57-percent majority of Democrats says Bush is more to blame; 47 percent of Republicans say Clinton is. Independents are almost twice as likely to say Bush is more to blame (32 percent Bush -- 17 percent Clinton).

[Mz Pip]

1. A particular political party

cannot protect us from a terrorist attack. It's a bogus argument.

What protects us is good intelligence and diligent law enforcement. That should not be a Repug or Democratic position. No one wants a terrorist attack and for the Repugs to claim they have some innate right to protecting the American people is just arrogant.

Mz Pip
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[bluestateguy]

2. Ooh. That's going to ruin Brit Hume's day

What is Fox going to do, stick it on the bottom right hand corner of their website, and let it drop into the Archives in three hours?

[Orsino]

3. This is a success story for FOX.

They've been able to convince 36% of those polled that Clinton is responsible. I wonder what percentage would have blamed Carter?

[Nostradammit]

4. Why does all this feel like a setup to me?

Is all this comparison between Clinton and Bush about "Osama Bin Laden" just the scaffolding for the moment
when they break out the body of some dead guy and say, "We got him, We got him!" ?

All a littttle fishy to me.

[Vogon_Glory]

5. But With This Bunch of Bunglers, They'd Blow It

Perhaps the politicos of Team Shrub would turn up a corpse of some tall guy who looks like everybody's favorite Saudi. But what would happen is that the bin Ladens would like some sort of DNA sample to see if this is their black sheep run amok, the tests would be performed, and lo and behold, the American boob-oisie would find they'd been scammed again by Team Shrub.