CNN 12/1/05 POLL: Most doubt Bush has plan for Iraq victory

Poll: Most doubt Bush has plan for Iraq victory

Thursday, December 1, 2005; Posted: 1:35 p.m. EST (18:35 GMT)


CNN) -- As President Bush launched a new effort Wednesday to gain public support for the Iraq war, a new poll found most Americans do not believe he has a plan that will achieve victory.

Will Bush's plan for Iraq work?

Question: Do you think President Bush does -- or does not -- have a plan that will achieve victory for the United States in Iraq?



SAMPLE: Interviews conducted by telephone November 30, 2005, with 606 adults in the United States. SAMPLING ERROR: +/- 4% pts.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/30/iraq.poll/index.html

The poll conducted Wednesday does not directly reflect how Americans are reacting to Bush's speech, because only 10 percent of the 606 adult Americans polled had seen it live and two-thirds had not even heard or read news coverage about it.

But it does indicate the scope of the battle ahead as the Bush administration seeks to regain support for the war among an increasingly skeptical public. (Watch a fact check on Bush's speech -- 2:28 )

Among poll respondents, 55 percent said they did not believe Bush has a plan that will achieve victory for the United States in Iraq; 41 percent thought he did.

They've already seen his speech more times than that episode of "I Love Lucy" where she acts like a clay statue.

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the question wasn't clear enough.