Poll: Voters Eyeing National Security
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WASHINGTON - Concern about national security is dominating public attention in the final months of the presidential campaign because of continuing fears of terrorism and unhappiness about the war in Iraq, according to a poll released Wednesday.   "For the first time since the Vietnam era, national security issues are looming larger than economic issues in an election year," said Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press...
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The Iraq war and war on terror have helped push foreign policy to the top of voters' concerns, ahead of traditional election issues like unemployment and health services, according to a poll published by the Financial Times (FT).
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WASHINGTON As we enter the last days before the presidential election, Americans seem skeptical about the voting process. A new Associated Press Ipsos-Public Affairs poll finds that 60 percent of those asked
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Economic anxiety may be at least matching national security as a factor driving the 2008 presidential contest as the voting begins.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush has a slight lead over Democrat John Kerry in an Associated Press poll, but the president has a big advantage on protecting the country - the issue voters say they care about most.   "If we don't take care of the terrorists, we certainly won't have to worry about the economy," said Janet Cross, 57, of Portsmouth, Ohio, who switched from Democrat to Republican for the last election...
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The race for the White House has come down to one thing: who can best protect America. With just one week to go security and the war on terror continue to dominate the agenda.
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Unlike the past two elections, both Democrats and Republicans face potential headaches in the fall voting if terrorism is a major concern, a poll suggests.
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John F. Kerry and his supporters are adopting President Bush's strategy of playing on the public's security concerns as voters get a heavier-than-ever dose of speeches and television ads from both candidates designed to convince them the other ticket would make the world more dangerous.
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There are all sorts of statistics that track how the nation has changed since it last elected a president, perhaps none as telling as this: 98 percent of us remember exactly what we were doing when terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Americans are united on this but little else as Election Day nears.
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Prevention of terrorism cited as top priority but opponents claim vote is opening 'a pandora's box'.
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A new poll offered a conflicting portrait of the nation's view of President Bush that was evident during last year's election campaign.
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First and foremost, delegates to the Republican National Convention want their next president &#151; whoever that may be &#151; to focus on fighting terrorism, an Associated Press survey found.
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AUSTRALIA&#39;S involvement in Iraq and terrorism strikes in Southeast Asia have made defence and national security potentially decisive issues for voters as polling day nears.
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By Dick Meyer. By Dotty Lynch. By Tom Fenton. John Kerry attempted to refocus the election as a referendum on President Bushâs âmismanagementâ of the war in Iraq on Monday, in his most detailed address yet on national security.
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As the two parties brace for the coming debate over restructuring Social Security, polls and focus groups for both sides have shown that voters -- especially older ones, who vote in disproportionately heavy numbers -- distrust any change that has the word "private" attached to it.
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As Washington area residents head to the polls, months into a heated primary campaign, health care remains a top voter concern. A recent Washington Post-ABC national survey showed health care ranked third (after the economy and the war in Iraq) among Democratic voters; among Republicans, health c...
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LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo.  - Tammy Hough is a life-long  Republican, a socially conservative stay-at-home mother and a  woman who puts American security as a top priority, so many  pundits see her vote as an easy one for President Bush. But  she's not so sure.