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How Quickly They Forget: Support for Offshore Drilling Increases in Key States

The news cycles can be measured in milliseconds these days, therefore this result is not surprising: In Louisiana, despite being at the heart of the spill, voters never showed much ambivalence about...

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Public Opinion Matters When Helping Homeowners, But Not When Helping Banks?

I wanted to address this complaint, a feature of discussions about the housing crisis from the very beginning, actually the source of Rick Santelli’s proto-tea party rant. The only other thing I can...

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Poll: Country Doesn’t Believe Government Can Do Anything

by infomatique What we learn from this polling is that when you spend almost three years with unemployment at an elevated level, the public tends to get the message that government isn’t able to help...

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Obama Jobs Bill Faces Hurdles with Public, Fellow Democrats

The political theory behind the American Jobs Act is that the President would offer a popular series of job creation measures, get his party and then the public behind them, and pressure Republicans to...

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Public Wants Deeper Cuts to Defense Budget Than Even the Trigger

Lost in yesterday’s House vote to replace the defense trigger cuts is that the public actually wants to cut the defense budget by even more than what’s contemplated in those cuts. Ask your average...

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Obama Attacks Romney on Size of Military Budget

Observers have expressed surprise at this Obama campaign ad hitting Mitt Romney for supporting increased military spending: Mitt Romney’s plan? A new $250,000 tax cut for millionaires. Increase...

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Obama’s Plans for a Second Term Include Rallying Public Opinion

There’s been little or no bounce for Romney/Ryan from the GOP convention, on the eve of the Democratic convention. The race is static and has been static for the last several months, because in...

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Obama Plans to Hit Road With Oh-So-Popular Message of Cutting Social Security...

Obama hits the road to sell "grand bargain" President Obama plans to meet with business, labor and civic leaders early this week about the fiscal slope, according to Reuters. Congressional leaders will...

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Poll: Public Will Blame Republicans If Country Starts Down the Fiscal Slope

Republicans have enough problems dealing with their own internal insurgencies, but it should be explained that their biggest problem in the fiscal slope negotiations is that the public is poised to...

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As Gun Safety Debate Heats Up, Danger in Trying to Solve Wrong Problem

Gun violence protesters march on NRA lobbying offices in Washington DC The President has asked his cabinet for proposals on how to curb gun violence, suggesting that there’s no actual set of...

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