President Obama announced as one of his first acts in office that he planned to close the Guantanamo prison camp for terrorists in Cuba, but political and legal complications have brought that effort to a halt. The president announced recently that the facility will remain open indefinitely and that trials of the inmates by military tribunals will resume there. Voters continue to support both decisions.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 21% of Likely U.S. Voters think the prison at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba should be closed, down 15 points from last June and the lowest level of support ever. Fifty-eight percent (58%) say the prison camp should not be closed, while another 21% are not sure what should be done about it….

Sixty percent (60%) of voters say suspected terrorists should be tried before military tribunals rather than in U.S. courts. Twenty-seven percent (27%) disagree and favor court trials instead. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided.