Eighty-six percent (86%) of voters nationwide say there should be “limits on what the federal government can do.” A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only nine percent (9%) believe the federal government should be allowed to do most anything in this country.

These views are overwhelming shared across virtually all partisan and demographic lines.

54% of Americans say it was "a mistake" for the United States to send troops to Iraq, while 44% disagree. In most polls over the past five years, Gallup has found a majority calling the decision to send troops a mistake, with a high of 63% opposition in April 2008. Americans are about evenly divided as to whether things are going "well" or "badly" for the United States in Iraq.

Americans largely support President Obama's timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan beginning in July 2011, with 58% in favor and 38% opposed. Most who are opposed think no timetable should be set rather than favoring an earlier or later date.

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Looking at other aspects of Obama's job performance, American voters:

* Approve 48 - 43 percent of the way he is handling foreign policy;
* Approve 45 - 40 percent of his handling of Afghanistan;
* Approve 49 - 41 percent of his handling of terrorism.

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Obama's best marks continue to come on foreign policy, where 56 percent say they approve of his handling of the war in Afghanistan. This is his strongest rating on the matter since his major review of U.S. war policy, which resulted in his December decision to further increase troop levels there.

The poll was taken after Obama hosted a summit aimed at reducing nuclear weapons around the world. About half of those surveyed -- 49 percent -- say they approve of his handling of nuclear weapons policy; 37 percent disapprove.

American voters say 60 - 33 percent that the U.S. Senate should ratify the nuclear disarmament treaty President Barack Obama recently signed with Russia, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

Voters support 70 - 28 percent the U.S. and Russia working to eliminate all nuclear weapons in the world.

There is a difference between how the public evaluates the President on domestic versus international issues. More Americans approve of how President Obama is handling terrorism and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But when it comes to health care and the economy, majorities disapprove.

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Obama remains more popular than Congress (22% approval), Republicans (30%), or Democrats generally (36%). The president also got a boost on Iraq (55% approve) and Afghanistan (57% approve).

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Most people in the United States condemn the use of waterboarding by the American military and intelligence agencies, a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll has found.

In the online survey of a representative national sample of 1,010 American adults, 49 per cent of respondents disapprove of the practice known as waterboarding—33 per cent of them strongly.

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