58% of US voters feel waterboarding should be used on the terrorist that tried to blow up a US airliner

The disapproval for President Obama’s actions and decisions continues to grow, seemingly on a daily basis.

The newest Rasmussen Reports poll shows a clear disconnect between the American voters and Obama and the liberal elites.

Fifty-eight percent (58%) of U.S. voters say waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques should be used to gain information from the terrorist who attempted to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 30% oppose the use of such techniques, and another 12% are not sure.

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Seventy-one percent (71%) of all voters think the attempt by the Nigerian Muslim to blow up the airliner as it landed in Detroit should be investigated by military authorities as a terrorist act. Only 22% say it should be handled by civilian authorities as a criminal act, as is currently the case.

Unlike the President and Pelosi and her gang of liberals outraged by the use of ‘advanced interogation’ techniques, the majority of Americans believe the government should use agressive interogation techniques on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and attempt to stop future terrorist attacks from killing American citizens.  The citizens of this country want the government to use all means to stop a future 9/11, which Obama and Janet Napolitano would simply call another ‘man-made natural disaster’.

Further, the poll shows a reaction consistant with the outrage over Obama’s decision to try the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks in NYC, with an overwhelming majority of voters believing that the failed Christmas day terrorist attack should be investigated by the military and not civilian authorities.

Ed Morrissey of Hot Air provides a further break down of the poll numbers:

Let’s look inside the numbers, where the responses get very, very interesting.  Rasmussen’s analysis says men are more likely than women to break out the waterboard, but a majority of women (54%) favor its use on Abdulmutallab, too.  Older voters may be less likely to approve of its use, but it still wins a plurality among 50-64 year olds (49%) and senior citizens (48%), outstripping opposition by double digits in both cases.  Democrats give waterboarding a thin plurality (43/41), while 60% of independents favor its use.  A majority of self-described moderates (51%) favor it as well.

So far, the response to using the criminal system is almost uniformly negative, with 71% saying that the military should be handling the issue.  Women are more likely than men (75/66) to have that reaction.  Among age demographics, the lowest percentage agreeing was 67% among the 50-64 demo.  Sixty percent of Democrats want it handled by the military, with only 30% agreeing with the Obama administration.  Even 50% of self-described liberals want the military handling Abdulmutallab, not the FBI.  Only among the political class does Obama gain majority support, 60/33 in favor of civilian handling of the terrorist.

The more time passes, the more it is clear that President Obama and his merry gang of liberals in his cabinet and in Congress simply are out of touch with what the American people want and believe in.  Or, a more likely scenario is that they fully understand what the American voters want, but simply don’t care, believing their liberal ‘dream’ for America is worth destroying the America we now know and love.