Empty Seat for Giffords
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 25th, 2011 5:38 am by HL
Empty Seat for Giffords
“The Arizona delegation will sit together Tuesday night during President Obama’s State of the Union address, leaving one seat empty to honor Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ),” The Hill reports.
Surge of Optimism About Country
A new CNN/Opinion Research poll finds 43% of the public feel that things are going well in the country, up 14 points since December. The survey indicates that a majority of Americans continue to think that things are going badly in the country today, but that figure has dropped from 71% at the end of last year to 56% now.
Said pollster Keating Holland: “We haven’t seen numbers this good since April of 2007. One likely reason for the change is the public’s growing optimism about the economy.”