Framing the Exit: Pollsters, Public Opinion, and the Politics of Military Withdrawal

In this data directory, we pair observational data of all public opinion polls with at least one question that asked Americans about their attitudes toward withdrawal from a military intervention in the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research Archive’s iPoll Databank with data from a representative survey experiment designed to measure support for withdrawal from the War in Afghanistan. The observational dataset includes 234 survey questions between 1946-2021 and the experiment dataset includes 1,501 responses that were collected between February 27th-March 4th, 2023. We use this data to examine what shapes public support for withdrawing from military interventions on foreign soil.