Biggest U.S. threat?
With so many dangers lurking in the world today we wanted to know your views on some of them. In a Poll Position national scientific telephone survey we asked, among the Iranian nuclear program, North Korean computer hacking or the Mexican drug cartels, which do you consider a bigger threat to the United States? It was very close but the Iranian nuclear program was choice number one with 37%, Mexican drug cartels was a close second with 35%, the hacking of computers by North Korea was third with 12%. Five percent did not consider any of these a threat and 11% did not have an opinion.
The Iranian nuclear program was the biggest concern for Republicans and Democrats with 50% of Republicans choosing Iran and 34% of Democrats picking the Islamic state. Independents, by a wide margin, picked the Mexican drug cartels as the biggest threat with 47% opting for Mexico versus 28% of Independents who chose the Iranian nuclear program.
Poll Position’s scientific telephone survey of 1,184 registered voters nationwide was conducted November 10, 2011 and has a margin of error of ±3%. Poll results are weighted to be a representative sampling of all American adults.
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