Last night on Brit Hume, he showed some polling results indicating that Iraq was no longer the first news item that jumped to peoples’ minds when thinking of what was news:

The extent to which the success of the troop surge in Iraq has driven the war off the front pages is clearly illustrated in a new survey.

The Pew Research Center reports just 16 percent of respondents say Iraq is the first news story that comes to mind now. That’s down from 55 percent in mid-January.

In fact, 33 percent say there is now too little coverage of the war