Wednesday, December 10, 2014

81 % Americans feel ISIS could attack the US – when captured they should be sent to Gitmo


A poll carried by a media house has revealed that a majority of American voters expect the ISIS to attack the US and want the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba to be the place where the captured terrorists should be sent instead of to a federal prison.
President Obama is keen to close Gitmo in order to fulfill a 2008 campaign promise, but 56 percent of voters want to keep it open. Although that is an increase from 52 percent in June, it is actually a decrease from a record 63 percent in 2013.
Party wise, the Democrats want Gitmo closed by a 12-point margin – in 2013 they favored to keep it open by 7 points. On the other hand, seven in 10 Republicans still want it open (71 percent), as do two-thirds of independents (66 percent).
A large 81-percent majority of Americans expect the Islamic extremist group ISIS to attempt a U.S. attack in the near future, including 48 percent who think it is “very” likely.
As to the priorities of President Obama, the poll put ISIS second only to the economy on the president’s list of priorities. The breakdown is - 38 percent say working on the economy should be Obama’s first priority followed by 21 percent who say ISIS. Another 12 percent say health care, 10 percent immigration and 9 percent race relations.
The poll is based on landline and cell phone interviews with 1,043 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R) from December 7-9, 2014. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.

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