Poll: Americans feel Obama is losing to ISIS, want domestic focus from government

A new poll released Monday by Quinnipiac University shows that a solid majority of Americans believe that President Barack Obama is causing the U.S. and its allies to lose the fight against the growing Islamic State terror threat.

According to the poll’s results, 56 percent of Americans disprove of how the president is handling his foreign policy duties, compared to 38 percent who approve.

When asked whether the United States and its allies are winning or losing the fight against ISIS, 64 percent of respondents said the U.S. is losing ground in the fight. That’s compared to just 17 percent who feel the U.S. is winning and 19 percent who weren’t sure.

“Republicans, Democrats and independent voters, and men and women, all agree the U.S. is losing,” a Quinnipiac summary of the poll results said.

And according to Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, Americans believe part of the reason that the U.S. is failing to contain ISIS is that the country is overextended in its foreign obligations.

“Americans, by a huge margin, believe the fight against ISIS is being lost,” Malloy said.

“By a 2-1 margin, voters think the United States is too overextended and should focus on domestic issues.”

Sixty-four percent of respondents to the Quinnipiac poll said that the U.S. should dial down its overseas activities and “focus more on our own problems here at home.” Thirty-two percent, meanwhile, told pollsters that they want the U.S. to “continue to push forward to promote democracy and freedom in other countries” because they believe it makes Americans safer.

If the president and Congress did attempt to focus on fixing domestic problems they’d have their work cut out for them , according to the poll’s results.

Just 2 percent of respondents said they were “very satisfied” with the way things are going in the country today, compared to 26 percent who are “somewhat satisfied,” 32 percent “somewhat dissatisfied,” and 39 percent who are “very dissatisfied.

View the full poll here.

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