A new CNN poll shows that while only 4% of Americans think "terrorism" is the biggest issue facing the country, the number of people who think a terrorist attack is "somewhat" or "very" likely to occur in the United States "over the next several weeks" is at its highest level (55%) in five years. This is a big jump from the last time CNN asked this question in August, 2009, when just 34% said the same.

This suggests 1) a public lack of confidence in the ability of the Obama administration to keep America safe from terrorists, or 2) a general resignation on the part of the public, given the three terrorist attacks in the past year (with disaster narrowly averted on Christmas Day and in Times Square but not at Fort Hood), that we we are bound to be hit again no matter what we do, or 3) some combination of one and two.

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