WASHINGTON, April 27 (UPI) -- A slim majority of UPI-Zogby International poll participants say the United States is less safe with George Bush as president.
A total of 51 percent of the 5,932 U.S. residents asked said they feel the country is less safe with Bush as president. Another 43.4 percent said they believed the United States was safer and 5.7 percent said they weren't sure.
There was the expected political split -- 86.1 percent of Republicans said the country was safer and 90.6 percent of Democrats said it was less safe -- but there was also a clear gender gap. Some 57 percent of female respondents said they felt less safe and 51.3 percent of males asked said the United States was safer.
While white respondents were split -- 47.7 percent safer, 46.5 percent not as safe -- minorities clearly feel less safe. Nearly three-quarters of African-Americans asked said the country was less safe with Bush as president, as did 66 percent of Asian-Americans and 57.8 percent of Hispanic-Americans.
Some 42.1 percent of participants said the United States was less safe since the invasion of Iraq while 35.1 percent said the country was safer.
The April 13-16 Zogby interactive poll has a margin of error of 1.3 percentage points.
