Seven years after the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, United States remains highly vulnerable to terrorism. This is the conclusion it has come to a study published recently, however, Americans no longer afraid or say not feel directly affected.
According to a survey, while last July 47% of U.S. citizens expressed concern about the possibility that they or a family member were victims of a terrorist attack, the percentage has dropped to 38%. And the decline is even more pronounced when compared with 59% resulting from the polls in October 2001, barely a month after the attacks against the Twin Towers.
The study by the Society for americas Segura, published by Gallup, appears seven years after that September 11, 2001, and less than eight weeks of the election in the event that Americans will elect the next person in charge of continuing the war against terrorism. At this point the percentages have also changed in recent years.
If during the first year of the war in Afghanistan The level of satisfaction of the Americans regarding the management by his government in the fight against terrorism reached 75%, now stands at 52%. Faced with such a narrow majority, 47% of respondents were dissatisfied says (or very dissatisfied). With these results, the study urges the next president of the United States to increase efforts and improve the statistics. Moreover, terrorism does not appear as a decisive factor in choosing the next president, unlike the economy, which presents itself as the most decisive when it comes to picking a candidate.
In the event that increased attention to the terrorist threat, the greater would be benefited the Republican Party, with John McCain at the helm, who in the issue of national security excels at 17 percentage points to ru rival Barack Obama.
