Poll watcher: Almost half say Iran is “enemy,” and more of today’s top polls
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 15th, 2011 4:35 am by HL
Poll watcher: Almost half say Iran is “enemy,” and more of today’s top polls
President Obama’s hard stance against Iran meets an American public with extraordinarily low opinions of the Persian nation; top GOP candidates trail a “generic Republican” against Obama; Republicans are most enthusiastic about backing Herman Cain in a general election despite his less competitive standing against Obama; and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s presidential flirtations may be paying dividends at home.
Who had the worst week in Washington? BlackBerrys.
Hell, the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre said, is other people.
Washingtonians learned that the hard way this past week when — horror of horrors — their beloved BlackBerrys stopped working.
The problem — or so our overlords at Research in Motion, BlackBerry’s parent company, told us — began in Europe (no surprise there) and spread to Africa, the Middle East, India and, finally and most important, Washington.
Gingrich’s claim that ‘Washington bureaucrats’ ruled on the prostate cancer screening
“I was just swapping emails today with Andy von Eschenbach, who was the head of the National Cancer Institute, the head of the Food and Drug Administration. …He wrote me to point out that the most recent U.S. government intervention on whether or not to have prostate testing is basically going to kill people. So if you ask me, do I want some Washington bureaucrat to create a class action decision which affects every American’s last two years of life, not ever. I think it is a disaster. I think, candidly, Governor Palin got attacked unfairly for describing what would, in fact, be death panels. And what von Eschenbach will tell you if you call him is: The decision to suggest that we not test men for — with PSA will mean that a number of people who are susceptible to a very rapid prostate cancer will die unnecessarily. And there was not a single urologist — not a single specialist — on the board that looked at it.”
Obama plans to turn anti-Wall Street anger on Mitt Romney, Republicans
President Obama and his team have decided to turn public anger at Wall Street into a central tenet of their reelection strategy.
The move comes as the Occupy Wall Street protests gain momentum across the country and as polls show deep public distrust of the nation’s major financial institutions.
And it sets up what strategists see as a potent line of attack against Republican front-runner Mitt Romney, a former investment executive whom Obama aides plan to portray as a wealthy Wall Street sympathizer.