Poll: Americans Flat Out Disagree With Obama And Democrats On Guantanamo Bay
It’s a near across the board disagreement. Americans overwhelmingly oppose closing the detention center. They oppose bringing the detainees to America. And they feel that the detention center has made our country safer, not less safe as so many on the left have claimed.
Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to closing the detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and moving some of the detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds.
By more than 2-1, those surveyed say Guantanamo shouldn’t be closed. By more than 3-1, they oppose moving some of the accused terrorists housed there to prisons in their own states. [...]
In the survey, Americans were inclined to accept the argument by Cheney and former president George W. Bush that the detention center had made the United States safer. By 40%-18%, they said the prison had strengthened national security rather than weakened it.
Those who want the prison to remain open feel more strongly on the subject that those who want to close it. A 54% majority of those polled say the prison shouldn’t be closed, and that they’ll be upset if the administration moves forward to close it.
Guantanamo Bay was a handy issue for liberals like Obama to use to fire up far-left liberal base in the Democrat party. But mainstream Americans are not far-left liberals. And ultimately it’s to those Americans that Obama has to answer.
Once again, Obama is learning that it’s a lot easier to be a candidate complaining about Gitmo. It’s a lot harder to be the President in charge of Gitmo.
