We're winning

Rasmussen says it's beginning to sink in.  We're winning the war on terror.

Over the past several months, confidence in the War on Terror has grown to the highest levels since the President was re-elected. The 47% who say the U.S. and its allies are winning is a sharp increase from the 33% who held that view at the beginning of 2007.

The 20% of voters who believe the terrorists are winning marks the lowest level of pessimism every measured by this poll since tracking began in January 2004.

In the meantime, the "Iraq is a distraction" theory is dying a very slow death. 

In a tape first aired by al-Jazeera Thursday, bin Laden said that “Iraq is the Jihad theater that would lead to the liberation of Palestine. The Jihad in Iraq should be supported in order to liberate Palestine.”

While the Democratic leadership remains in denial, voters are finding it harder and harder to toe that party line.