A new Wall Street Journal and NBC poll suggests that a majority Americans want to send more troops to the Middle East to fight ISIS.
Sixty percent of all respondents believe that troops should be sent to fight ISIS. Only 47% of Democrats want to send troops, while a whopping 80% of Republicans are in favor of troops being sent.
A mere 28% think that the troops should be sent indefinitely until the job is done and ISIS is destroyed. Compare that to the 32% who think that troops should be sent on a short-term basis to help the Iraqi military.
While the majority of the respondents are in favor, 52% of Democrats and 19% of Republicans oppose the idea of sending troops back to Iraq to fight ISIS.
The fight against ISIS will also play into how the presidential primaries will be decided.
Republican respondents overwhelmingly, at 80%, would support a candidate who vows to send troops to fight ISIS. Meanwhile, only 35% of Democratic respondents would support a candidate, with 47% saying that they would not support a candidate who said they would send support to the region in the form of boots on the ground.
H/T Reddit and The Wall Street Journal