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C — Current issues — opinions and perceptions

CD — Foreign affairs

CDb — Iraq

 

CDb13

 

Candidate who first advocated Iraq surge (wording #1)

 

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5/23/08 – 8/30/08

 

 

Which 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: John McCain, Barack Obama, both, or neither?

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

 

1

McCain

2

Obama

3

Both

4

Neither

998

Don't know

999

No answer

 

Correct answer: McCain. See also CDb13a for don't know prompt; CDb14 for alternate wording.

 

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