Poll: Majority Believe Obama Should Have Been More Involved in Benghazi Response

By Duane Lester
Published: April 25, 2013

But, he had a fundraiser the next day.

Priorities:

Clint Eastwood was right.

A Fox News poll asked voters about their reaction to former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s testimony to Congress in February on the Benghazi attack. Panetta testified that after the initial 5:00 PM briefing with the president, he didn’t hear from the President Obama or anyone at the White House again that night.

While almost a third of voters (29 percent) think there was “probably a good reason” for the president not to be personally involved, most voters — 61 percent — say Obama should have been directly involved “no matter what.”

Most Republicans (82 percent) and over half of independents (57 percent) feel the president should have been more engaged in responding to the assault. Among Democrats views are split: 43 percent say Obama had a good reason not to be involved, while 45 percent say there’s no excuse.
Oof.

That last number, 45 percent of Democrats saying there’s no excuse, it more powerful than the 61 percent.
It’s a number they can’t dismiss with a simple, “What difference does it make?”

http://www.libertynews.com/2013/04/p...hazi-response/