Look at Some Results from CNN/'USA Today'/Gallup Poll
CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: A CNN/"USA Today"/Gallup poll taken from December 14-16 shows Giuliani as the third most admired man in America, right after President Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell, and that same Gallup poll shows that about 3/4 of Americans think it is OK for women to fly combat aircraft and to do submarine duty. About half think the ground troops should include women. Here is Gallup poll editor-in-chief Frank Newport.</s>FRANK NEWPORT, GALLUP POLL: Yes, majority support in general for women in various combat roles, but interestingly not quite majority support for including women in a draft, if there is going to be another draft at some point in the future. Let's show you the data from our latest CNN/"USA Today"/Gallup poll. We asked about four specific types of combat roles. You can see the results here. Should women be allowed to be in these roles? Flying combat gets the highest support. Women do that currently. Women are not in submarines at this point. But 3/4 of Americans say they should be. Special forces, 63 percent. And ground combat troops, that last one there, just a bare majority, think women should be in combat on the ground. Now the draft -- there is no draft currently, at least no active draft. If there is one, should women be included as well as men. This goes back to 1979, when we asked that question after Vietnam was already over. You can see it was 43 percent then. The other times we asked it, it was above 50 percent a couple of times. Now most recently back down a little under a majority, 46 percent support. Are there differences between men and women in terms of the issue of whether women should be drafted? This is very interesting. Depending on where you come from the question, some suspect women should be higher in thinking women should be drafted, or really lower, but really there is no difference between men and women whatsoever, absolutely the same in terms of thinking women should be drafted along with men, if there is a draft. By the way, the highest opposition to women being drafted is among young people of both gender. It's way down just in the 30 percent range. They're most likely to be affected. They don't like the idea of anybody being drafted. That's an update for you on American public opinion in women in combat in the U.S. Military. Now back to you.</s>CALLAWAY: Thank you. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com