General Petraeus or General Out of the Way, Gus?

After all the bickering, the radio ads, the Freedom's Watching, the Moving On.org, Gen. David Petraeus's testimony turned out to be a bust.

A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday found essentially no shift in views on whether U.S. forces are likely to win the war — two-thirds predict they won't — and if the United States should set a firm timetable to remove troops.

In the days before Petraeus' appearances and President Bush's speech to the nation last week, 60% supported setting a timetable for withdrawal and sticking to it "regardless of what is going on in Iraq at the time." Now 59% do.

No poll shows any huge movement on war opinion. Pew shows a five-point bump among people who think the war is going "well" or "fairly well." But that bump consists almost entirely of Republicans. Not that their opinions don't matter, but the Republicans need to win hearts and minds outsideof their party if they don't want the war to bring them low next year.

If you want to see a poll that shows actual movement, check out John Sununu's comeback in New Hampshire, from 28 points down to 5 points down.