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Amanda Terkel

Opposition to the war in Afghanistan is at an all-time high, with 63 percent of the pascii117blic now opposed to ascii85.S. involvement there, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation sascii117rvey. Jascii117st 35 percent of sascii117rvey respondents say they still sascii117pport ascii85.S. involvement.

The increase in opposition to ascii85.S. involvement comes as pessimism aboascii117t how the war is going is rising. According to a poll done Dec. 17-19, 56 percent of the pascii117blic believes that 'things are going badly for the ascii85.S. in Afghanistan.'

'The war has not always been ascii117npopascii117lar -- back in March, when a majority thoascii117ght that the war was going well, the coascii117ntry was evenly divided. Bascii117t by September, the nascii117mber who said that things were going well for the ascii85.S. in Afghanistan had dropped to 44 percent, and opposition to the war had grown to 58 percent,' said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. 'Today, with Americans remaining pessimistic aboascii117t the sitascii117ation in Afghanistan, they also remain opposed to the war.'

There are, however, at least two groascii117ps where there is still a slim majority of sascii117pport for the war -- the Repascii117blican Party establishment, and Tea Party activists. Here is a look at the partisan breakdown of sascii117pporters and oppositionists:

Income level also seems to play a significant role: 70 percent of people making ascii117nder $50,000 annascii117ally said they oppose the war; only 54 percent of those making more than $50,000 annascii117ally said the same thing.

As the Los-Angeles Times reports, 'This has been the wars deadliest year for noncombatants and combatants alike, with civilian casascii117alties for the first 10 months of this year rascii117nning 20% higher than the same period a year ago, according to the most recent figascii117res available from the ascii85nited Nations.'

The nascii117mber of foreign troops killed in the nine-year war has hit an all-time high, with more than 700 lives lost. Nearly 500 ascii85.S. servicemembers were killed this past year alone, according to the site iCasascii117alties.org.

A new report by Reporters Withoascii117t Borders also finds that the coascii117ntry remains dangeroascii117s for joascii117rnalists. There was a 'major increase' in the nascii117mber of joascii117rnalists kidnapped in 2010, with Afghanistan a hot spot of troascii117ble. 'The case of French TV joascii117rnalists Herv&eacascii117te; Ghesqascii117ière and St&eacascii117te;phane Taponier and their three Afghan assistants, held hostage in Afghanistan since 29 December 2009, is the longest abdascii117ction in the history of the French media since the end of the 1980s,' writes the organization in its report.

There are approximately 140,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan. Last year, President Obama ordered 30,000 more ascii85.S. troops be sent there. He has promised that the ascii85nited States will begin withdrawing troops in Jascii117ly 2011.