… Americans still see terrorism as a high-stakes public policy issue, though it has almost disappeared altogether from their list of the nation’s top problems. A Gallup poll released Monday — which was conducted in early April — found zero percent of Americans volunteering “terrorism” as the country’s most important problem. …
Part of this stems from the fact that most Americans believe the country is safer since Sept. 11; two-thirds of respondents held that view in a Washington Post-ABC News poll in 2011. [cont.]
Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post
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