Stanley Feldman, "Going to War in Iraq: When Citizens and the Press Matter"
English | ISBN: 022630423X | 2015 | 248 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 022630423X | 2015 | 248 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Conventional wisdom holds that the Bush administration was able to convince the American public to support a war in Iraq on the basis of specious claims and a shifting rationale because Democratic politicians decided not to voice opposition and the press simply failed to do its job.
Drawing on the most comprehensive survey of public reactions to the war, Stanley Feldman, Leonie Huddy, and George E. Marcus revisit this critical period and come back with a very different story. Polling data from that critical period shows that the Bush administration’s carefully orchestrated campaign not only failed to raise Republican support for the war but, surprisingly, led Democrats and political independents to increasingly
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