Confidence U.S. Winning War on Terror Jumps Following bin Laden Killing
A month ago, voter confidence in U.S. efforts in the War on Terror fell to its lowest level in over four years. Now, that confidence has soared following the weekend killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. Navy SEALs. Voters are also much more confident that the country is safer today than it was before the September 11, 2001 terror attacks that bin Laden orchestrated.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 55% of Likely U.S. Voters now believe the United States and its allies are winning the War on Terror. That’s up 13 points from last month and is the highest level of confidence measured since early February 2009. Voters have only rarely expressed this much confidence in seven years of surveying on the question.
Just 11% now believe the terrorists are winning the war on terror, down from 24% in April and the lowest result measured in surveys since April 2004. Twenty-four percent (24%) say neither side is winning. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters nationwide was conducted on May 3-4, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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