As expected, Democrats are more likely to say Obama has the authority to assassinate an American with no due process.

Via HuffPo:

After an uproar this week when Attorney General Eric Holder wrote that technically speaking, the president might have the authority to kill an American citizen on U.S. soil using a drone in an “extraordinary circumstance,” a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds that Americans are deeply uncomfortable with the idea of drone strikes in the U.S., with half saying that ordering one would be unjustified even if it would prevent a terrorist attack.

Only 33 percent of respondents to the new survey believe there should be circumstances in which it is legal for the president to order a drone strike against an American citizen within the U.S., while 47 percent said it should be legal under no circumstances. Majorities of both Republicans and independents said that there were no circumstances under which ordering a drone strike against an American citizen on American soil should be legal, but Democrats were more likely to say that it should be legal under extraordinary circumstances, 43 percent to 32 percent.

Asked specifically about using drones to prevent a terrorist attack, 50 percent of respondents said there would be no legal justification for doing so if it means killing citizens within the United States, while 20 percent said it should be legal.