Iraq war top problem for Americans
Washington DC, 2008 Jan 12, IRIB
The faltering American economy has caught the Iraq war as Americans' top worry, a national poll suggests, with the rapid turnabout already showing up on the presidential campaign trail and in maneuvering between President George W. Bush and congress.
Twenty percent of those polled named the economy as the foremost problem in an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Friday, virtually tying the 21 percent who cited the war.
In October, the last time the survey posed the open-ended question about the country's top issue, the war came out on top by a 2-1 majority.
About equal proportions of Republicans, Democrats and independents in the new poll said the economy was their major worry, suggesting the issue looms as a potent one in both parties' presidential contests.
