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What Do Americans Think About Libya Now?

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A damaged poster of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is seen in Tripoli September 7, 2011. Picture taken September 7, 2011. REUTERS/Anis Mili
A damaged poster of ousted Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi is seen in Tripoli on September 7, 2011. (Anis Mili/courtesy Reuters)

The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press just released the results of a new survey asking Americans what they think of the military intervention in Libya. The upshot is that Muammar al-Qaddafi’s ouster hasn’t made the public more enthusiastic about the mission.

The specifics:

The Pew survey doesn’t suggest any reason to believe that Operation Odyssey Dawn has hurt Obama politically. But it also doesn’t suggest that toppling Qaddafi has helped him either.