So, Al Franken is officially a senator, but given his long and bitter battle with rival Norm Coleman, not to mention his pronounced unpopularity among Republicans, it’s not entirely surprising that a Rasmussen Reports poll released Thursday registered substantial voter displeasure at the prospect of Franken’s arrival on Capitol Hill. Politico: Less than a week before Senator-elect Al Franken...
BELLEVUE, Wash. /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new Rasmussen poll reveals that 57 percent of American citizens believe gun sales are up over the past several months because of widespread fears that the government will tighten restrictions on gun ownership."The poll results confirm what we've been saying," noted Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear...
Green nonsense To combat a problem which probably doesn't exist , the House narrowly passed last week a bill to restrict emissions of carbon dioxide (to 83 percent of 2005 levels by 2020 and to 17 percent by 2050). If the Waxman-Markey bill, named after its Democratic sponsors, Rep. Henry Waxman of California and Edward Markey of Massachusetts, were to work exactly as its sponsors claim, global temperatures...
It was a remarkably muddled speech, full of that combination of folksy charm - and embarrassingly cutesy references to fridge magnets - which has marked her every public utterance. And it says a lot about her astonishing ego that we are left wondering whether or not this is her preparing to run in 2012. Though, why someone throwing in the towel should show us that they are ready to lead the free world...
I was busy most of the day, but I heard that something might have happened with regard to the 2010 elections. Some sort of a candidate announcement. Might have been a governors race? Perhaps someone here can fill me in.... :) MN-Gov: Apparently, Norm Coleman IS Serious About This Norm Coleman is obviously trying to resemble one of those sandy-bottomed childrens toys that you keep knocking over, only...
It's by sheer coincidence that we'd happened to have a Sarah Palin item running earlier this afternoon at the time she announced that she was leaving Alaska's governorship. I've been on a plane for the past six hours (the flight that I was supposed to take last night got cancelled). Fortunately, it was JetBlue, so I was able to watch a lot of TV. There seem to be three* basic theories to explain why...
• Rivals believe she wants a shot at the White House • Republican opinion split on timing of move Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice-presidential candidate who electrified her party's campaign last year, has resigned as Alaska's governor in a decision that has fuelled speculation she is positioning herself to run for president. After a sometimes rambling speech in which she compared...
• Republicans disagree on wisdom of move • Former McCain running mate hints at political ambition Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice-presidential candidate who electrified her party's campaign last year, has resigned as Alaska's governor in a dramatic decision that has fuelled speculation she is positioning herself to run for president. But after an at times rambling speech in which...
In a certain sign that she is first looking to cash in, and then run for President in 2012, Sarah Palin will not seek re-election in 2010 . A Republican source close to her political team told CNN's John King that it was a "calculation" she made that "it was time to move on." The governor's "book deal and other issues" were "causing a lot of friction" in her...
Hot Air's Allahpundit : Jim Geraghty [theorizes] why it is that the left despises [Palin] so. He’s certainly got part of the answer — happy, successful pro-life conservative women are a grievous offense to leftist feminism — but I think he misses the element of sheer contempt they have for her intellect. To the left, I think, she embodies a sort of comfort with ignorance that they...
Obama, eat your heart out.From Rasmussen Reports:Netanyahu's numbers may not compare with Obama's in terms of personal ratings, and no one is making fancy graphics about how Netanyahu is doing--yet unlike Obama, a poll shows that Bibi's approval ratings are going up:A public-opinion survey commissioned by Haaretz to gauge Netanyahu's popularity as he approaches 100 days shows favorable results, despite...
Ir still manages to amaze me to watch Barack Obama carefully craft his words about the murder and execution of Iranian citizens protesting a rigged election claiming he doesn't want to "meddle", yet sticks his nose in Honduras affairs, coming down against the Government, the rule of law, and people that ousted Honduras former president, Manuel Zelaya, for blatantly flaunting the law and breaking...
From Manufacturing & Technology: Poll Shows Clean Energy Act Could Force Nearly 20 Percent of Manufacturers to Close The cap-and-trade based system, pushed by the Obama administration and passed by the U.S. House, could cause energy costs to skyrocket and fuel more unemployment Critics of the Waxman-Markey climate change legislation that narrowly passed the U.S. House [...]
by Mark Silva Despite a roughly 10-point decline in public job-approval since the high start of his presidency in January, President Barack Obama is "arguably'' still enjoying a "honeymoon'' with the American public, the Gallup Poll's historical review suggests. Obama, whose job ratings started in the high 60s, have dipped to the high 50s in recent surveys but have "generally been above...
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