{"id":720132,"date":"2010-04-20T11:47:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T15:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82780"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:21:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:21:56","slug":"military-less-republican-split-on-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/720132","title":{"rendered":"Military Less Republican, Split on Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via<a href=\"http:\/\/shadow.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2010\/04\/19\/a_wise_commander_minds_morale_in_the_ranks\"> Peter Feaver<\/a>, this year&#8217;s annual Military Times poll &#8212; valuable not for any individual year&#8217;s findings, since it solicits responses and therefore isn&#8217;t scientific, but for measuring trends among career military folks &#8212; finds a largely conservative officer corps that <a href=\"http:\/\/militarytimes.com\/news\/2010\/04\/military_poll_advance_041110w\/\">isn&#8217;t buying what the GOP is selling<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An exclusive survey of some 1,800 active-duty troops shows the percentage of self-identified Republicans has decreased by one-third since 2004, from 60 percent to 41 percent, while the percentage of self-identified independents has nearly doubled to 32 percent during the same period.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"more-82780\"><\/span>The big drop appears to have occurred in 2008 and 2009, indicative of broader political sentiments in the country during that period. But that doesn&#8217;t translate into increased warmness for the Democrats or for President Obama. While uniformed sentiment on Obama will probably take another year to track as a poll trend, this year finds them &#8220;virtually divided&#8221; on the president. Yes, the guy who ordered two big troop increases to Afghanistan. Yet, somewhat surprisingly, the respondents are &#8220;more pessimistic about the mission in Afghanistan&#8221; than in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, the crosstabs are for subscribers and I am not a subscriber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Peter Feaver, this year&#8217;s annual Military Times poll &#8212; valuable not for any individual year&#8217;s findings, since it solicits responses and therefore isn&#8217;t scientific, but for measuring trends among career military folks &#8212; finds a largely conservative officer corps that isn&#8217;t buying what the GOP is selling: An exclusive survey of some 1,800 active-duty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-31l2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821747,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720132\/revisions\/821747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}