56% of Iowa Republicans & 86% of Iowa Democrats Want Troops Withdrawn Within 6 Months

Strategic Vision did a poll of Iowa voters and found this interesting result:

4. Do you favor a withdrawal of all United States military from Iraq within the next six months? (Republicans Only)
Yes 53%
No 36%
Undecided 11%
What is interesting is that none of the Republican candidates for president are talking to this group of Republicans EXCEPT for Congressman Ron Paul. Congressman Paul, by the way, has raised over eight million of a 12 million dollar goal that his campaign has set for the fourth quarter of 2007.

By the way, when Democrats in Iowa were asked the same question, this is how they responded:

6. Do you favor a withdrawal of all United States military from Iraq within the next six months? (Democrats Only)
Yes 86%
No 6%
Undecided 8%

Interestingly enough, no Democratic candidate is speaking to this group of Iowa Democratic voters, even though, according to this poll, they make up 86% of the Democratic vote in Iowa. The closest is New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who, according to his website is the only Democratic candidate calling for a withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq by the end of 2009. So here we have a majority of both Iowa Democrats and Republicans favoring a troop withdrawal from Iraq within six months, and the major candidates for both parties' nomination aren't reflecting their wishes.

Why is that? Because in politics name recognition trumps everything, including issues of war and peace, and name recognition can be bought with advertising. If Paul and Richardson were as well known as Giuliani and Clinton, this would be a much more interesting race. They are not, though, and more is the pity.