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C — Current issues — opinions and perceptions

CD — Foreign affairs

CDb — Iraq

 

CDb11

 

Republican candidate who first advocated Iraq surge (wording #1)

 

Schedule

Nat RCS

 

 

Date bar

 

 

 

1/14/08 – 2/6/08

 

 

Which Republican candidate running for president was the first to criticize former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for conduct of the Iraq War and the first to advocate the increase in troops known as the surge: {1/14/08 – 1/29/08 : Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, or Mitt Romney | 1/30/08 – 2/6/08 : Mike Huckabee, John McCain, or Mitt Romney}?

[Probe if don't know:] Anything come to mind?

 

Multiple answers accepted:

CDb11rA

{1/14/08 – 1/29/08 : Giuliani}

CDb11rB

Huckabee

CDb11rC

McCain

CDb11rD

Romney

 

1

Yes

2

No

998

Don't know

999

No answer

 

Correct answer: McCain. See also CDb11a for don't know prompt; CDb12 for alternate wording.

 

Data columns

Name

Codes

Width

CDb11rA

1, 2, 998, 999

3

CDb11rB

1, 2, 998, 999

3

CDb11rC

1, 2, 998, 999

3

CDb11rD

1, 2, 998, 999

3