Iran: Romney's Foreign Policy Ace?
New polls suggest Obama would win the national security debate against presidential hopeful Mitt Romney if elections were held today. While Afghanistan and Iraq are likely winners for the president and losers for Romney, Iran is still a toss up—and may prove to be the international issue that provokes the most consequential debate of the presidential campaign.
If the election between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were held today, purely on national security issues, the result would be a likely landslide for Obama.
In a Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted last week, Americans said they trusted Obama over Romney, the likely Republican presidential nominee, to do a better job handling international affairs by a margin of 53 percent to 36 percent.
Obama got a boost when United States Special Forces killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last year, but his policies in Iraq and Afghanistan have also been overwhelmingly popular.
With regard to Iraq, a CNN/ORC poll taken in December revealed that 66 percent of Americans opposed the war while 78 percent approved of the president’s decision to remove all U.S. combat troops from Iraq.
