While the favorable opinions of Americans about their commander-in-chief have dwindled since soon after Barack Obama took office last year, a new poll finds the country has a remarkably high — and steady — opinion of its military forces.
A new Rasmussen Reports survey of 1,000 adult Americans finds fully three-out-of-four have a favorable opinion of the military, almost exactly the same as the last two years. That number is all the more striking because only 41% believe the ongoing war in Afghanistan is winnable.
About 13% have no opinion about the U.S. military and 12% think unfavorably of American troops.
Republicans are more supportive of the military and slightly more likely to have served in it than members of the president’s Democratic party.
But here’s an interesting twist in the recent Rasmussen numbers: 67% of U.S. voters believe the country’s military should be used to halt illegal immigration on the border with Mexico. Only 18% oppose that idea.





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