The allegation are allotment of a Bloomberg Politics civic poll appear Wednesday that aswell shows the nation disconnected on whether to forward U.S. troops to Iraq and Syria to action the Islamic State, an abstraction President Barack Obama opposes, and whether the U.S. government is accomplishing abundant to assure the citizenry from a commensurable attack.
Fifty-three percent of U.S. adults in the survey, conducted in the canicule anon afterward the attacks, say the nation should not abide a affairs to displace up to 10,000 Syrian refugees. Just 28 percent would accumulate the affairs with the screening action as it now exists, while 11 percent said they would favor a bound affairs to acquire abandoned Syrian Christians while excluding Muslims, a angle Obama has absolved as “shameful” and un-American.
More broadly, agitation and the Islamic State accumulation surged to the top of Americans’ apropos anon afterward the baleful attacks, even as Republicans and Democrats abide disconnected over how best to abode threats. The allotment of those appraisement agitation or the Islamic State as top apropos has about angled back the poll endure was taken in September. At the aforementioned time, those who anticipate the U.S. is on the appropriate clue fell to 23 percent, the everyman appraisement in added than three years. Obama’s disapproval appraisement rose to 51 percent, up 4 allotment credibility back September.
These trends may action drive to the Republican leaders of Congress as they activate hearings and accede aggressive a government abeyance over Obama’s Syria policies, even as 64 percent of Americans say Islam is an inherently peaceful religion.
Terror in general, and accurately ISIS, the accumulation that claimed albatross for endure week’s attacks, are cited by a accumulated 35 percent of Americans as the top affair in the analysis conducted Nov. 15-17. That’s about the aforementioned as apropos about jobs, immigration, bloom affliction and the federal arrears combined. ISIS abandoned is the top affair for 21 percent of Americans, up from 11 percent in September. Agitation is the top affair for 14 percent, up from 7 percent two months ago.
Despite advancing tensions amid the U.S. and Russia, 53 percent of Americans favor a U.S.-Russia aggressive affiliation to action Islamic terrorism.
That award is a absorption of the “any-friend-in-a-storm” psychology, said J. Ann Selzer, who conducted the poll. “Vladmir Putin is not a accepted personality in this country,” she said of the Russian leader. “However, we're adverse a accepted threat. Here's an befalling to align. both Republicans and Democrats assume to say, 'Let's go.'”
There is no accord about whether to forward U.S. troops to Iraq and Syria to action ISIS, with 44 percent for the abstraction and 45 percent adjoin it, or whether the U.S. has done abundant to assure the citizenry from a Paris-style attack.
Differences breach acutely forth accessory lines; 64 percent of Republicans abutment sending U.S. troops, and 59 percent of Democrats argue the idea, while Democrats are about alert as assured as Republicans that the U.S. is accomplishing abundant to assure Americans at home. On the refugee question, abandoned 12 percent of Republicans wish to accumulate the accepted affairs compared with 46 percent of Democrats.
While majorities in both parties accede that Islam is inherently a peaceful religion, evangelicals are split, with 46 adage Islam is inherently violent. On the added side, 45 percent of evangelicals alarm Islam an inherently peaceful adoration with some adherents who aberration its article to absolve violence.
The civic poll of 1,002 adults was conducted Nov. 15-17 for Bloomberg Politics by Selzer & Co. of Des Moines, Iowa. It includes a abate sample of 628 adults who were asked questions about the Paris attacks on Nov. 16 and 17. The all-embracing sample has a allowance of absurdity of additional or bare 3.1 allotment points. The abate sample has a allowance of absurdity of additional or bare 3.9 allotment points.
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