The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 43% of voters believe the United States and its allies are winning the war on terror. That’s little changed from a month ago but down 12 points from 55% the week President Obama took office in January.

Twenty-five percent (25%) say the terrorists are winning, and 24% say neither is ahead.

There is virtually no partisan disagreement on this question.

Forty-four percent (44%) say the United States is safer today than it was before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Fifty-one percent (51%) felt that way at the time Obama became president. Thirty-seven percent (37%) say the country is not safer now, and 19% aren’t sure.

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Fifty-six percent (56%) of Republicans think America is safer today. Democrats and unaffiliated voters are more closely divided on the question.

Forty-nine percent (49%) of Americans believe that most of their fellow countrymen have already forgotten the impact of the 9/11 attacks in which 3,000 died.

Thirty-one percent (31%) of voters say the situation in Iraq will get better over the next six months, while 34% believe it will get worse. Twenty-seven percent (27%) say it will stay about the same. Confidence in the situation in Iraq also has eroded since late January.

Americans are more pessimistic about the situation in Afghanistan and consider Iran the biggest threat to U.S. national security.

Forty-two percent (42%) give the president good or excellent marks for his handling of national security matters.

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