Poll: Majority Believe Obama has it Right on Iran

Call this a belated followup to my morning post. Yet again, the GOP finds themselves on the wrong side of popular opinion.

CNN:

A new national poll suggests that that nearly three out of four Americans don't want the U.S. directly intervene in the election crisis in Iran even though most Americans are upset by how the Iranian government has dealt with protests over controversial election results.

More than eight in ten questioned in the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, released Monday, think the election results released by the Iranian government were a fraud, with just one in ten believing the results were accurate. But only three in ten respondents say they are personally outraged by the results, with another 55 percent upset by not outraged.

Most Americans approve of how President Obama's handled the situation. And 74 percent think the U.S. government should not directly intervene in the post-election crisis, with one out of four feeling that Washington should openly support the demonstrators who are protesting the election results.

"Some 56 percent say that Obama's criticism of the Iranian regime has been about right. Only a third say that he has not gone far enough in his comments about the situation in Iran," says CNN's polling guy Keating Holland. He also says that the number against Obama's position would be higher, but there aren't enough people who say they're "personally outraged by the results."

I don't know that outrage is the most reasonable reaction here, so there's really no reason for that percentage to be higher. It is Iran we're talking about. Being freaked out that the mullahs threw some political weight around to democracy's despite would suggest you just haven't been paying attention. When all is said and done, the secular side of the government runs Iran in the same way that Mickey Mouse runs Disneyland.

Still, the GOP tried to milk this in their own favor and once again they failed. They might consider actually governing for a little bit, instead of playing these transparent and silly political games, because this whole "use every situation to embarrass Obama" thing just plain ain't workin'.