As President Obama and Mitt Romney prepare to square off in their third and final presidential debate tonight, a new poll from CBS News shows the president leading Romney on foreign policy, the focus of the debate, by a nine-point margin. According to the poll, conducted from October 17-20, the […] Read more »
Post-ABC poll: Romney now rivals Obama on dealing with int’l affairs, terrorism
President Obama and Mitt Romney head into the final debate still deadlocked among likely voters nationally: 49 percent side with the Democratic president, 48 percent with the Republican challenger, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. But Romney now rivals Obama when it comes to dealing with international affairs […] Read more »
Debate Ahead, Romney Gains on Int’l Affairs – But Continues to Lag on Economic Priorities
Mitt Romney carries newfound competitiveness in trust to handle international issues into the final presidential debate, combined with his highest personal popularity of the 2012 campaign. But continued weakness in his perceived economic priorities is keeping the race a close one. Among other shifts, after last week’s second debate, which […] Read more »
FL & OH: Poll Shows Voters Have Strong Interest in Global Affairs
Voters in the pivotal battleground states of Ohio and Florida show strong interest in global security issues, and want to hear the candidates’ views on defense, Iran and terrorism in the final presidential debate, according to a new poll conducted jointly by leading Democratic and Republican pollsters for Harvard Kennedy […] Read more »
What Kind of Foreign Policy Do Americans Want?
… One of the clearest ways to differentiate the foreign policy views of Democrats and Republicans is to identify which foreign policy goals they see as very important. Democrats are more apt to see limiting climate change, combating world hunger, strengthening the United Nations, and defending human rights as “very […] Read more »
8 crazy things Americans believe about foreign policy
… Americans have some astonishing misconceptions about international affairs. … As the Washington Post’s Dylan Matthews explained last month, the baffling fact that 15 percent of Ohio Republicans believe Mitt Romney deserves more credit than Barack Obama for killing Osama bin Laden may have as much to do with polling psychology […] Read more »