Showing posts with label Jennifer Agiesta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jennifer Agiesta. Show all posts

Monday, September 14, 2015

Obama's Iran Nuclear Deal "Victory": Flouting the American Electorate



As reported yesterday by CNN in an article entitled "Poll: Americans skeptical Iran will stick to nuclear deal" by Jennifer Agiesta:

"A new CNN/ORC poll finds 59% disapprove of the way Obama is handling the U.S. relationship with Iran, and about half would have preferred Congress reject the deal. Few believe Iran will abide by its terms, and a growing number consider the country a serious threat to the U.S.

 
Most Americans think Iran will ultimately violate the terms of the agreement, with 37% calling that extremely likely and 23% saying very likely. Just 10% think it's not at all likely that Iran would break the agreement. Republicans (83% likely) and independents (58% likely) are more apt to believe Iran would violate the agreement than are Democrats (44% likely).
 
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Perceptions of threats from North Korea, Russia and Iran have all grown since April, but the biggest increase lies with Iran.
 
Nearly half (49%) now say they consider Iran a 'very serious' threat to the United States, up 10 points since April. [According to this poll, another 33% consider Iran a 'moderately serious threat.'] That shift came across party lines with double-digit increases in the percentage viewing Iran as a very serious threat among both Democrats (up 14 points to 43%) and Republicans (up 15 points to 68%)."

On Thursday, Senate Democrats filibustered a vote on Obama's nuclear deal with Iran.

Flouting the beliefs of a majority of Americans amounts to a foreign policy "victory"? Obama and his henchmen clearly regards voters, who twice elected him president, as bovine fools.