Democrats and the liberal media have been trying to turn the NSA domestic spying story into a Watergate-sized catastrophe for the Bush administration, but if this Rasmussen poll is to be belived it would appear as though most Americans aren't biting:

December 28, 2005--Sixty-four percent (64%) of Americans believe the National Security Agency (NSA) should be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States. A Rasmussen Reports survey found that just 23% disagree.

Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Americans say they are following the NSA story somewhat or very closely.

Just 26% believe President Bush is the first to authorize a program like the one currently in the news. Forty-eight percent (48%) say he is not while 26% are not sure.

Eighty-one percent (81%) of Republicans believe the NSA should be allowed to listen in on conversations between terror suspects and people living in the United States. That view is shared by 51% of Democrats and 57% of those not affiliated with either major political party.

What is amazing to me is that not only do a majority of Republicans agree with the NSA spying but a slight majority of Democrats do as well. Considering that overall approval of the Bush administration by Democrats from numerous different polls hovers in the 20 - 30% range, the fact that over half of them approve of this spying program that the media and Democrat party leaders have been boisterous in decrying is remarkable.

Of course, this is just one poll, but still.