More Americans say the US is losing battle against terrorism

The latest CNN/ORC poll shows 75 percent of the country is dissatisfied with how the fight against terrorism is going.

Americans’ high dissatisfaction with how things are going cuts across political party lines, as the poll found that 59 percent of Democrats were not happy with the United States government’s execution of the war on the terrorists, with 79 percent of independents and 86 percent of Republicans saying the same.

Then, 42 percent said the US was winning the war on terror, while 11 percent said the terrorists were dominating the fight.

A Republican majority of 55 percent believe terrorists are winning, while 52 percent of Democrats feel neither side has an advantage. The poll was conducted Dec.17-21 and has 3 percent margin of error.

The Associated Press-GfK survey found that only 40 percent of Americans approved of the president’s handling of foreign policy.

The majority of people polled lay the blame at the feet of President Barack Obama.

Breaking down those numbers, 20 percent said not much, which was similar to the 19 percent who gave that response the last time the question was asked, in January 2010, a year into the current president’s administration.

Despite expanding America’s global military and surveillance efforts since taking office in 2009, Obama received only a 38-percent approval rating for the way he is “handling” terrorism, with 60 percent disapproving.

Fifty-one percent have at least a moderate amount of confidence in the White House’s ability to protect citizens from terrorism or more.

Approximately 27 percent said they are “not too anxious”, followed by 28 percent responding they are “not anxious at all”.

Still, 45 percent believe “the terrorists will always find a way to launch major attacks no matter what the US government does”.

Forty-nine percent said they favor sending ground troops into battle against Islamic State extremists occupying large swaths of Syria and nearby northern and western Iraq.