Support for FDR Didn't Drop During the Battle of the Bulge
On Monday I took note of, and exception with, White House press secretary Tony Snow's assertion that polls would have shown a drop in support for FDR during the Battle of the Bulge:
If somebody had taken a poll in the Battle of the Bulge, I dare say people would have said, wow, my goodness, what are we doing here?Josh Marshall at TPM managed to get his hands on some polling from WW2, which shows that Snow hadn't done his homework:
As you can see, there was no downtick in public support for the war around the time of the Battle of the Bulge. Approval for President Roosevelt's conduct of the war continued at around 70% where it had been for years. The number of people who said they had a clear idea of what the war was about was at about the same level and appears to have been rising.
posted by Tom Noyes at 4:19 PM
2 Comments:
Tommy,
One of those questions is "percent who think the government hasnt asked people to make enough sacrifices."
I'd like to see the responses to that question today.
FDR had virtual universal support from the media at that time.
Think back to the begining of the invasion of Iraq. You think Bush was lacking in media support?
The problem is he squandered it - and public support by underfunding, undermanning, and under planning the occupation. it is no tthe media, it is the incompetence.
For Bush, the war was all about winning the mid-terms and it worked. He won the mid-terms.
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