Conservatives, and the few remaining neoconservatives specifically, have not liked Barack Obama's response to the situation in Iran, beseeching the President to take a stronger role in trying to undermine the Iranian regime under the assumption that American involvement would help rather than hinder the opposition. (They might want to go back and read Stephen Kinzer's "All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror" to get a sense of the how Iranians perceptions of American involvement in their internal politics changed when the U.S. helped overthrow the Democratic leader of the country more than a half century ago.) But almost as amazing as the strained logic used by those on the right to hit President Obama is the fact that the American people just aren't buying it.

More than eight in ten questioned in the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, released Monday, think the election results released by the Iranian government were a fraud, with just one in ten believing the results were accurate. But only three in ten respondents say they are personally outraged by the results, with another 55 percent upset by not outraged.

Most Americans approve of how President Obama's handled the situation. And 74 percent think the U.S. government should not directly intervene in the post-election crisis, with one out of four feeling that Washington should openly support the demonstrators who are protesting the election results.

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Even though nearly eight in ten consider Iran a serious or moderate threat, the poll suggests that a vast majority of Americans, 82 percent, don't think the government should take military action against Iran.

Following the coverage of the administration's response to the situation in Iran, one might come away with the sense that the public is evenly divided, or at least closely divided, on the topic. Not so much. Though it may not bear out in the news, neoconservatism simply is not an ideology in which Americans put faith anymore. Instead, wide majorities of the country stand firmly along with Barack Obama in the more realist camp -- a group that includes more than a 4-in-5 majority opposing military action against Iran.