Americans watched in horror as the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, left nearly 3,000 people dead in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Nearly 20 years later, they watched in sorrow as the nation’s military mission in Afghanistan – which began less than a month after 9/11 […] Read more »
Biden approval tumbles even though most Americans support Afghanistan exit
Nearly three-quarters of Americans agree that the United States’ involvement in Afghanistan was a failure, according to a new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll. No matter their politics, generation, gender, race or income, most agreed it was time to end U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. While a majority disapproved of President Joe Biden’s […] Read more »
Biden’s Approval Rating Hits A New Low After The Afghanistan Withdrawal
Amid the chaos of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Biden’s approval rating slid to just 43% in the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. That is down 6 percentage points from a survey conducted in July and is the lowest mark for Biden in the poll since taking office. The decline […] Read more »
Biden approval falls to all-time low as Americans turn against his handling of Afghanistan withdrawal
Now that the last U.S. troops have left Afghanistan after two decades of war, an increasing number of Americans say they support the decision to withdraw — yet more say they disapprove of the way the withdrawal was handled, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. As a result, President […] Read more »
Everyone has an opinion on Afghanistan — Do voters care?
… We tend to associate wars with “rally-around-the-flag” effects, in which conflicts lead to popularity bumps for presidents and their parties. Such effects may have been true during WWII, but 21st century military interventions are long, drawn out affairs — and political losers. This is due to what I’ve identified […] Read more »
Americans back end to Afghanistan war but fault Biden’s execution
When President Joe Biden formally announced the end of America’s longest war on Tuesday, he did so with a majority of voters supporting its conclusion, polls show. But those same polls suggest his execution of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is broadly unpopular, which has forced him to absorb a […] Read more »