White Republicans Largely Alone Support Iraq War --Gallupp Poll

This poll is over a month old and support for the war is still going down. It it too bad that they didn't further break down support for the war by income as it is the lower middle class and poor who are doing the fighting.
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Gallup Finds 53% Feel Iraq War Not Worth It; Will Media Probe Why?

By Greg Mitchell

Published: April 20, 2005 10:20 AM ET

NEW YORK With the conflict in Iraq seemingly stabilizing, a new government elected and American deaths declining, media coverage has dropped considerably. Perhaps that is partly based on feeling the public now has a more favorable view of U.S. involvement there. But a new Gallup poll, released Wednesday, firmly disputes that.

It found that only 45% of all Americans now feel the Iraq invasion was “worth it,” with 53% saying it wasn't. Nearly 8 in 10 Republicans, 79%, say it was worth going to war, while just 19% say it was not worth it. Among Democrats, only 17% say it was worth it and 82% say it was not. The divide among political independents is not as wide: a third, 36%, say it was worth going to war, while 61% say it was not.”

Yet there has been very little press coverage of why, in light of some positive developments in Iraq, this is true.

Gallup reported: “Levels of support vary by political party, race, and age. Democrats are much less likely than Republicans to say it was worth going to war in Iraq. .....

Other breakdowns: Whites say it was worth it by a 50%-to-48% margin, while non-whites rate it 26% OK and 72% not. The youngest segment polled, and the oldest, were most opposed. A majority of 18- to 29-year-olds, and a majority of Americans aged 65 and older, think it was not worth going to war. Americans between the ages of 30 and 64 are more evenly split



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