got to admit it’s getting better

Pew reports that Americans are feeling more positive about Iraq:

For the first time in a long time, nearly half of Americans express positive opinions about the situation in Iraq. A growing number says the U.S. war effort is going well, while greater percentages also believe the United States is making progress in reducing the number of Iraqi casualties, defeating the insurgents and preventing a civil war in Iraq.

Roughly half of the public (48%) believes the U.S. military effort in Iraq is going very or fairly well. Judgments about the overall situation in Iraq have been improving steadily since the summer. As recently as June, only about a third of Americans (34%) said things were going well in Iraq.

No doubt people are expressing more positive opinions because Iraq is hardly ever in the news anymore—they’re not seeing it on their TV screens—as I mentioned here the other day. Americans are figuring out that things are better in Iraq simply by the absence of MSM coverage.

So it goes. As for what all this means—well, I think it spells bad news for rabidly antiwar Democrats.