Voters still oppose moving Gitmo trials to US

Byron York:

Last May, Gallup asked poll respondents, "Do you think the Unites States should -- or should not -- close [Guantanamo] and move some of the prisoners to U.S. prisons?" At the time, 65 percent of respondents opposed the plan to close Guantanamo, while 32 percent supported it.

Fast forward seven months. The Obama administration has decided to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York and has just announced it will bring other Guantanamo inmates to a souped-up prison in Illinois. So Gallup has taken another poll. And the results are…virtually the same as in May.

In the new survey, 64 percent say they oppose bringing Guantanamo inmates here, while 30 percent support it.

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The majorities opposing Obama on the Guantanamo issue are even larger than those that oppose him on national health care. And that could be decisive. Gallup notes that Obama will need the approval of Congress to bring the Gitmo prisoners here....

Democrats have been walking in lock step off the cliff on health care and they do so with the trials, but they will pay a well deserved price for going against the will of the people in the 2010 election.

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