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Public's Attitudes Towards Iraq Little Changed Over Last Several Weeks: Majority still say situation in Iraq worth going to war over (Frank Newport, July 23, 2003, GALLUP NEWS SERVICE)

Much attention has been focused on President George W. Bush's problems relating to Iraq, including the controversy over the origins of the now famous statement included in Bush's State of the Union Address about Iraq's possession of uranium from Africa.

But recent Gallup polling data indicate that many Americans are not as concerned about this and other aspects of the Iraqi situation as media coverage might suggest. Gallup's latest assessment of the public's views of the most important problem facing the country, completed July 7-9, shows that concerns about the economy are much more prevalent than concerns about war or Iraq. Perhaps as a result, the polling finds that public views of the Iraqi situation and how Bush has handled it have remained relatively stable over the last few weeks, even in the face of the heightened news coverage.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 24, 2003 7:51 PM