Dogs Still Bite MenA new poll shows a dramatic shift of opinion about the Iraq war, the Associated Press reports:

People are evenly split over how well the military effort in Iraq is going, with 48 percent saying it is going well and the same number saying it isn't, according to a survey by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. In February, shortly after [President] Bush announced he would send additional troops to the country, only 30 percent said things were going well. . . .
While 16 percent of Democrats said in February that things were going well, that figure has grown to 33 percent. . . .

Overall, 43 percent said the U.S. is making gains against the insurgents, up 13 percentage points from February. The percentage of people seeing progress reducing civilian casualties has more than doubled to 43 percent, while the number seeing results in preventing civil war is 32 percent, almost double the February level.

But the headline reads "Poll: Public Still Favors Iraq Pullout," and the AP leads with this non-news:

The public increasingly believes the U.S. is making military progress in Iraq but still wants President Bush to remove American troops from the country as quickly as possible, a poll showed Tuesday.

The "narrative" is everything, isn't it?