Fox News Poll: Voters say US should not intervene in Syria
By Dana Blanton
Published May 22, 2013
FoxNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/22/fox-news-poll-voters-say-us-should-not-intervene-in-syria/
Most Americans do not want the United States to get more involved in
Syria.
A new Fox News poll finds that nearly a quarter of voters (23 percent)
thinks the U.S. should get more involved because it's a humanitarian
crisis and Syria is a strategically important country. However,
nearly three times as many, 68 percent, say the U.S. should stay out
because it's a civil war and the U.S. could actually end up helping
anti-American extremist groups.
Syria is a rare instance of agreement across the political spectrum:
majorities of independents (65 percent), Democrats (69 percent) and
Republicans (70 percent) agree the United States should stay out of
Syria.
Voters who have served in the military also say the U.S. should not
intervene (67 percent).
CLICK TO VIEW THE FOX NEWS POLL
Overall, 37 percent of voters approve of the job President Obama is
doing handling Syria, while 40 percent disapprove. Another 22 percent
have no opinion.
The Fox News poll is based on landline and cell phone interviews with
1,013 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted
under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw &
Company Research (R) from May 18 to May 20. The full poll has a
margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.