American Perceptions of Iraq and Progress Through the Years

I’ve rummaged through the Polling Report archives to put together a few charts on Iraq. Specifically, I wanted to see, in one place how people have thought the war was going, from the beginning through now.

The question asked by the pollsters is thus: “How would you say things are going for the U.S. in its efforts to bring stability and order to Iraq? Would you say things are going very well, somewhat well, somewhat badly, or very badly?”

Here it is in graphical format.

Here, I’ve combined the four categories down to just two: well or badly.