Mondo Times Terrorism Poll Archive

This poll ran from June 11 to 20, 2007.

Mondo Stars Poll Results

"America is safer now than before 9/11." True 665/32% False 1427/68%

Votes: 2092

Senator Hillary Clinton, speaking during a televised debate on June 3, 2007 with John Edwards and Senator Barack Obama, two of her rivals for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. Writing in the New York Times, Michael Cooper and Patrick Healy wrote that "Mrs. Clinton, who has tried to minimize her differences with her rivals on commander-in-chief issues, bluntly disagreed with a main rival, former Senator John Edwards, who had just said that the administration's so-called war on terror was little more than a slogan."

The campaign of Senator Barack Obama sent supporters and reporters a memorandum on June 4 titled "America Is Not Safer Since 9/11," which cited research from the State Department and other groups that described terrorism as an accelerating threat.

Cooper and Healy added that "The question of whether the nation is safer than it was before the Sept. 11 attacks is debated passionately among policy makers and security experts. A survey of more than 100 foreign policy experts, conducted in February by Foreign Policy magazine, for instance, found that three-quarters believed that the United States was losing the war on terror."

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