Democrats and Afghanistan

In the Pew Research Center’s new poll, 94 percent of Democrats approved of President Obama’s plans to withdraw most U.S. combat troops from Iraq before September 2010. Seventy-six percent nationally gave that response. But Obama may have more trouble with his troops when it comes to Afghanistan.  Democrats are less likely than Republicans or independents to approve of his plan to send 17,000 more troops there. Other more recent polls show continued resistance by Democrats to the president's plans.

Source: Pew Research Center, March 2009.