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Florida International University

The FIU/Florida Poll is a statewide survey of 1,200 Florida residents done by SJMC’s Institute for Public Opinion Research (IPOR) every year from 1988 to 2004. The 2004 Poll was done in December 2004 and January 2005, and the 2006 Poll was done in July 2006.

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What do you think now about the U.S. decision to go to war in Iraq? Do you think the U.S. should have gone to war when it did, should it have waited and not gone to war unless other proposed solutions did not work, or should the US not have gone to war in any case?

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results by ethnic groups


What do you think now about US. decision to go to war in Iraq * Florida poll conducted in year Crosstabulation
% within Florida poll conducted in year


Florida poll conducted in year Total
03 04 06
What do you think now about US. decision to go to war in Iraq 1 SHOULD HAVE GONE TO WAR WHEN IT DID 46.2% 37.2% 35.5% 39.6%
2 SHOULD HAVE WAITED 31.5% 34.2% 33.0% 32.9%
3 SHOULD NOT HAVE GONE TO WAR IN ANY CASE 22.2% 28.7% 31.5% 27.5%
Total 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%

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