Obama’s Job Approval Suffers Amid Economic and ISIS Worries

Persistent economic anxiety at home and the advance of Islamic extremists in Iraq and Syria are complicating life for Barack Obama, helping push his job approval rating back under water, to its lowest of the year. Forty-five percent of Americans in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll approve of Obama’s […] Read more »

ISIS campaign as unpopular as Iraq offensive before 2007 surge

Americans are as dissatisfied with the U.S. military campaign against ISIS as they were during the Iraq War’s least popular days, according to a new CNN/ORC poll released Monday. And nearly the same percent of people blame President Barack Obama’s policies for the current situation in Iraq as those who […] Read more »

Echoes of Iraq war sound in 2016 presidential race

Every war casts a long shadow, from the heroism of the Greatest Generation to the dark ambiguities of Vietnam. It was inevitable, then, that the 2016 presidential candidates would be confronted with the war in Iraq. Twelve years on, the broad questions raised by the invasion — about trust in […] Read more »

Republicans want to make Iraq a winning issue in 2016 — and it just might work

Republican presidential hopefuls are actively angling to turn Iraq — an unpopular war that sent George W. Bush’s approval ratings to record lows — into a winning issue for their party in 2016. And there’s reason to believe it just might work. While the Iraq war continues to be unpopular, […] Read more »