Public Trusts our Military

More election analysis, combined with recent polling. John McIntyre, RCP:

The military and defense department clearly has the most confidence among the public as 81% trust them to recommend the right thing.

The fact that Senator McCain (who has been pushing for more troops) outpolls Democratic leaders in Congress by 5 points coupled with the overwhelmingly strong support for the military and defense department is moderately encouraging results for Republicans and tends to confirm the thesis that the election results were more of a repudiation of Bush's Iraq policy rather than a broad embrace of Democratic leadership.

And recruitment is meeting or exceeding its goals.