POLL: Only 27% Say U.S. Will Remain Most Powerful Nation

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Just 27% of U.S. voters now think the United States will still be the most powerful nation in the world at the end of the 21st century, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

That's down eight points from the previous survey in February just after a highly-publicized U.S. military surge in Afghanistan

Thirty-nine percent (39%) say America will not be the most powerful nation at the end of the century, and another 35% are not sure.


[Basically the same sentiment as expressed by the end of the '70's.

Then we elected Reagan, who (with Thatcher and Pope John Paul) ended the cold war through strength and initiated a further widening of America's economic preiminence and the greatest constant expansion (25 years) in the history of the modern world.

Let's hope there's still enough Americans old enough to remember that and remember it fast (like this November and in 2012}].

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