Polls: Uncle Sam Keeps Us Safe

Longtime polling expert Karlyn Bowman, of the American Enterprise Institute, just delivered a pat on the back for the federal employees who toil to keep the country safe from another terrorist attack.

In her new compendium of opinion data going back 10 years, Bowman writes:

"At a time when criticism of government is widespread, Americans believe the country is safer due to the government's efforts. They also believe George W. Bush made us safer and that Barack Obama has kept us safe. 69 percent told Pew that the government was doing very or fairly well in reducing the threat of terror. 50 percent in 2008 told CBS that George W. Bush had made the country safer; 21 percent said less safe. 63 percent approved of the job President Obama was doing handling terrorism in a June 2011 Quinnipiac poll."