By a dramatic margin, a majority of the country opposes the construction of the so-called “Ground Zero mosque,” a new CNN poll finds. According to the new survey, 68% of Americans are against building the Cordoba House, a Muslim community center planned to be constructed two blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center. Twenty-nine percent favor the plan.
As The New Yorker‘s Hendrik Hertzberg has written, opposition to the Islamic center seems “roughly proportional to distance.” While 68% of Americans disapprove of the plan, a recent Marist poll found that 53% of New York City residents disapprove, including only 31% of Manhattan residents.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has come out in favor of the plan, while a number of Republicans nationwide have vocally opposed it.
The CNN poll, which surveyed 1,009 adults, has a margin of error of ±3.0 percentage points.
(h/t The Hill)
