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Democrats Drawing Even on Security, Obama Favored Over Bush

It seems likely that part of the right-wing’s thinking in pushing a lot of talk about Nancy Pelosi is that conservatives think that any time the country is talking about national security, the Republicans are winning. But a new GQRR survey shows that the parties have drawn even on the Democrats’ historic weak point:

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It also seems that voters feel Barack Obama’s national security policies are change they can believe in:

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Of course it’s still possible that relative to other issues this is good terrain for Republicans.

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