Here are some poll numbers released by Rasmussen Reports -- "an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information."
Just 38% of U.S. voters agree with former Vice President Dick Cheney that America is less safe now because of changes President Obama has made in national security.
Fifty-one percent (51%) disagree with Cheney, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
The partisan divided is predictable: 72% of Republicans agree with Cheney, while 80% of Democrats disagree. Among voters not affiliated with either party, 35% think Cheney is right, but 50% say he's wrong.
Thirty-nine percent (39%) of all voters attach some importance to Cheney's comments since he left office, but only 17% say his opinions are Very Important. Most (57%) rate the ex-vice president's views as not very important (26%) or not at all important (31%).
As for Cheney's former boss, 83% agree that former President George W. Bush has been right to stay out of the news. Just 10% disagree. Bush stated that Obama "deserves his silence" so that the new president could move ahead without criticism from his predecessor. Just 10% disagree with Bush.
Most voters (58%) shared Cheney's view on a related topic, that the release of CIA memos about the harsh interrogation methods used on terrorism suspects endangers U.S. national security.
Forty-one percent (41%) of voters have a favorable view of Cheney, with 15% very favorable. Most voters (53%) have an unfavorable opinion of President George W. Bush's number two, including 37% who view him very unfavorably.
While 70% of Republicans have a favorable regard for Cheney, 69% of Democrats and 58% of unaffiliated voters do not.
These findings are not surprising given the high level of unhappiness with both Bush and Cheney after their eight years in office. Cheney's favorables and unfavorables remain largely unchanged from last November. Just before Bush stepped down in January, 57% of Americans rated him as one of the five worst presidents in U.S. history.
At the same time, Republicans continue to maintain leads over Democrats in terms of voter trust on the handling of national security and the War on Terror.
Yet most Americans continue to give Obama good or excellent marks on national security .
Confidence in America's handling of the War on Terror rebounded slightly this week but remains near the lowest level of the past year. Still, nearly half (49%) of voters say the United States is safer now than it was before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and this level of confidence has remained relatively stable through the closing months of the Bush presidency and the early months of Obama's.
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