Poll finds strong support for Iran negotiations

[mystery-ak]

http://thehill.com/policy/international/235901-poll-strong-support-for-iran-talks

By Ben Kamisar - 03/17/15 07:32 AM EDT
More than two-thirds of Americans back diplomatic negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program as congressional Republicans continue to call for a role in that outcome, according to a new CNNl/ORC poll.

Sixty eight percent of Americans favor direct diplomatic talks with Tehran, but that number has dropped 8 percentage points since September, 2013. Twenty nine percent of Americans oppose negotiations, up from 21 percent in September 2013.
The poll comes after a group of 47 Republican senators, led by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) addressed an open letter to Iranian leaders that characterized any agreement between the White House and Iran as temporary unless its approved by Congress. The senators said that any agreement could be easily voided by Congress or a future president unless it's codified into law.

Democrats have accused the senators of trying to sandbag negotiations ahead of an important March deadline. During a recent interview with VICE News, President Obama said that he was "embarrassed" for those who signed onto the letter.

"For them to address a letter to the ayatollah, who they claim is our mortal enemy, and their basic argument to them is, ‘Don’t deal with our president because you can’t trust him to follow through on an agreement,’ that’s close to unprecedented," he said.

While Iran's nuclear negotiations reportedly confronted American representatives about that letter during a recent round of talks, Americans are skeptical that the letter made a significant difference.

Forty four percent polled said that the letter had no impact on the negotiations, while 32 percent said it hurt America's efforts.

[Mrs. libsrevil]

I read a comment by a person who couldn't understand why the Republicans would not want there to be peace between Israel and Iran, why would they try to interfere?
That right there is the problem; too many people think this is about peace between Iran and Israel.
The population is so dumbed down at this point, I don't see how America ever recovers.

[240B]

Any "telephone poll" sponsored by CNN is worthless.

They have stock numbers which they call, and they know exactly how the person is going to answer before the phone starts ringing. They do this only as a formality to justify publishing a story that they want to publish anyway, with or without any faux 'poll'. The 'poll', from known respondents, is only intended to give the spin some kind of legitimacy.

[flowers]

BS poll.