Of the three swing states (OH, FL and PA) polled by Quinnipiac University, Pennsylvanians offer the most support for nuclear negotiations with Iran, opposed to military intervention, by the sizable margin of 76-15.
For Pennsylvanian men, the margin was 74-18, and with women 77-12, leaving virtually no gender gap.
The poll also asked citizens if they agreed with the practice of lifting economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for restricting the country’s nuclear program. Pennsylvanians favored this by an almost-as-overwhelming margin of 65% to 24%.
Democrats (86/10) and Independents (64/29) in Pennsylvania both disagreed with the Republicans’ letter to Iran’s leaders drafted by Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton and signed by PA’s Sen. Pat Toomey. 64% of Republicans, however, agreed with the decision to send the letter.
Overall, 42% of Pennsylvanians say the letter will hurt peace talks rather than help them. Just 7% feel it will help rather than hurt. 45% say it won’t make a difference.
This Quinnipiac survey was conducted from March 17th to March 28th. 1,036 Pennsylvania registered voters were interviewed live through land lines and cell phones. The margin of error is plus or minus 3%.
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Here we go again. PoliticsPA promoting a leftist message that in no way reflects the actual survey results it cites. It’s this kind of “journalism” that makes so many Americans disgusted with media altogether. Iran is a known dangerous country. With nukes it’ll be only a matter of years until several American cities are reduced to blackened ghost towns by the same bombs. Anyone promoting Obama’s pro-Iran policies are essentially at war with America.
Mr. Beck’s misleading summary of the Quinnipiac poll would have you believe that 2/3 of the public supports the Obama administration’s approach on Iran.
To the extent it would actually “[restrict Iran’s] nuclear program in a way that makes it harder for it to produce nuclear weapons,” polled Pennsylvanians support an agreement “in which the United States and other countries would lift some of their economic sanctions against Iran” by a 65-24 margin. Fair enough.
But in responding to the VERY NEXT question – which the author unbelievably fails to touch on here – Pennsylvanians view Iran as being NOT CAPABLE of negotiating in good faith by an almost identical 64-24 margin. What gives?
Furthermore, Pennsylvanians support legislation that would make any Iran agreement subject to congressional approval by a still similar 66-25 margin.
Lastly, by a familiar 66-28 margin, Pennsylvanians want the next President to generally change direction from President Obama’s policies.
Granted, 58% of Pennsylvanians indeed thought Senator Cotton’s letter was inappropriate. And 76% prefer a negotiated settlement over military intervention in an “either-or” scenario. I might even consider myself part of those majorities. But neither Quinnipiac’s line of questioning nor Mr. Beck’s one-sided recitation of this poll’s results reflects the reality on the ground: (1) the “bomb or negotiate” scenario is a false question that ignores other approaches, and (2) a substantial majority of Pennsylvanians, Floridians and Ohioans are very wary of the Obama administration’s approach here and doubt that it will advance our national interest.
“If we believe that the spread of nuclear weapons is inevitable, then in some ways we are admitting to ourselves that the use of a nuclear weapon is inevitable.” -BHO