Surge Up, Peace Prize Down in Polling

Well, it looks like Obama had the politics of the Afghanistan surge right.  But he also might have been wise to turn down the Nobel Peace Prize, from the looks of it.

Approval for the Afghanistan escalation is up by nine points in the past month -- voters now think the war is a good idea by a 57-to-35 percent margin.

A healthy 60 percent favor his new troop surge, according to the Quinnipiac survey, which has a two percent margin of error.

But only 26 percent think the president, who has been in office for less than a year, deserves to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.