"Gallup: 74% Support Women in Combat"

"Gallup: 74% Support Women in Combat"

By Matthew Auerbach

"According to a Gallup poll released Friday, an overwhelming number of Americans are in favor of women serving in combat. Seventy-four percent of those polled said they would vote yes if the issue were on the ballot, while only 20 percent said they would vote against such a measure. Responses among the 513 adults surveyed showed strong support for the proposal among both sexes, with 76 percent of women and 73 percent of men claiming to be in favor of the idea. The biggest disparity fell along party lines. Eighty-three percent of Democrats would support women in combat, while 70 percent of Republicans look upon the proposal favorably. The poll, conducted on January 24th, has a margin of error of plus or minus 6 percentage points.

Those who are younger are more likely to favor the policy than are those who are older. Among those aged 18 to 49, 84% favor the policy, compared with 63% of those aged 50 and older- a difference of 21 percentage points.

Gallup noted that it has asked Americans over the years about their support of women in battleground roles, and the majority have supported it. Gallup has found at least a majority of Americans in favor of it since 1992, including 74 percent in 2007.

Since Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced Thursday that the Pentagon would open as many as 230,000 positions in combat lines to women, the reviews have been mixed. Some have expressed concern about how women in combat would affect the core mission of the military and some soldiers have worried whether they can reach the fitness levels required to do the job. But change will be implemented slowly,  Panetta said, because he urged America to "get it right." The Army and the Marines will present plans to open most jobs to women by May 15, and each service will have until January 2016 to make the case for why some positions should remain closed.”

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Well, what have we here? "Equality" you say? Yes, now women have the same right to die in wars based on lies as men, and- oh my- if they reinstitute the draft, can they be drafted? Why not? I say draft them the same as men- why not? "Equality!" How very inconvenient getting drafted might be. I wonder how much they'll like being in a firefight with folks seriously trying to kill them? "Equality!" Oh yeah... like the old saying warns, be careful what you ask for, you just might get it. They've just gotten a lot more than they know, but they'll find out... - CP

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