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C — Current issues — opinions and perceptions

CD — Foreign affairs

CDb — Iraq

 

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Candidate who first advocated Iraq surge (wording #2)

 

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9/2/08 – 11/3/08

 

 

Which candidate or candidates running for president was the first to call for an increase in the number of troops as a way to make Iraq more stable, 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 CDb14a for don't know prompt; CDb13 for alternate wording.

 

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1 – 4, 998, 999

3