Last May, Gallup asked poll respondents, “Do you think the Unites States should — or should not — close [Guantanamo] and move some of the prisoners to U.S. prisons?” At the time, 65 percent of respondents opposed the plan to close Guantanamo, while 32 percent supported it.
Fast forward seven months. The Obama administration has decided to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York and has just announced it will bring other Guantanamo inmates to a souped-up prison in Illinois. So Gallup has taken another poll. And the results are…virtually the same as in May.
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