The latest Harris Poll of public attitudes on the situation in Iraq shows that many U.S. adults hold the attitude of "we're not winning and we're not losing." However, while this suggests the U.S. adult public thinks that perhaps things aren't quite as negative in Iraq, other data within this same survey still paints a very negative picture.

Most of the numbers are nearly as low as they have ever been in the course of more than three years.

A slight majority (52%) believe that we are not winning, but we are not losing either. However, almost three times as many feel we are losing (29%) as compared to just 10 percent who think we are winning. There are significant differences by political party. Many Republicans (57%) agree that we are neither winning nor losing, though 23 percent of Republicans believe we are winning and 11 percent think we are losing. Conversely, about half of Democrats (49%) think we are losing and 43 percent think we are neither winning nor losing.

In this survey conducted just before the State of the Union address, seven in 10 (70%) U.S. adults give President George Bush a negative rating on his handling of Iraq, while only a quarter (26%) give him positive marks. These are virtually identical to a November 2006 assessment when the President also received a 71 to 26 percent negative rating.

These are some of the results of The Harris Poll(R) survey of 2,337 U.S. adults conducted online between January 11 and 18, 2007 by Harris Interactive(R).

In the past few weeks, the President has also embarked on a major campaign to see his new Iraq policy of sending in more troops. The "sell" may be working somewhat as more people (27%) now accept the premise of sending more troops to Iraq for a few months. In November, a lower 19 percent agreed with this. However, that being said, over four in 10 (44%) U.S. adults think a timetable should be set for the withdrawal of US troops. This is down from November, when 51 percent felt this way.

The public is split between those who believe that "it was a mistake to take military action in Iraq in the first place" (40%; down from November's 42%) and those who think it "was the right thing to do but that things have gotten off course" (41%; virtually unchanged from 40% in November). Only a small minority (12%; similar to November's 13 percent) believes that it "was the right thing to do and things are going reasonably well."

This survey finds that attitudes toward events in Iraq are still highly polarized by party. Fully 67 percent of Democrats and 44 percent of Independents think that taking military action in Iraq was "a mistake in the first place," but only 12 percent of Republicans feel this way. On the other hand, 57 percent of Republicans (compared to 24 percent of Democrats and 43 percent of Independents) believe invading Iraq "was the right thing to do, but things have gotten off course there." Further, 26 percent of Republicans, but only two percent of Democrats and nine percent of Independents, believe it was the right decision "and things are going reasonably well."

Finally, the question of whether the President listens to his generals when it comes to Iraq was asked and a majority says he does not. Almost two in five (39%) say the President has listened to them, but is not taking their advice and an additional 17 percent say he has not listened to the generals at all. Just one in five (19%) say the President has both listened to the generals and has followed their advice. Again, we see the partisan divide emerge. While 38 percent of Republicans believe the President has listened to generals and is following their advice on Iraq, just 5 percent of Democrats and 15 percent of Independents believe the same. Yet almost one in three Democrats (30%) say the President has not listened to the generals at all while just four percent of Republicans believe the same.