The NLRB Putsch
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 26th, 2011 5:31 am by HL
The Iowa Polling Guru Speaks
Molly Ball, The Atlantic
I came to the Des Moines Register in December of 1987. I was on their staff when it had a complete polling unit inside the newspaper. The '88 caucuses were in that February, and they had put in place a technique of trying to save some money by recontacting people from previous polls. And I said, well, let's take a look. We have fresh numbers here, we have recontacts here. We were publishing that George Bush was going to win the Republican caucuses, and I went to the editors and I said, 'I don't think that's true. I think Bob Dole is going to…
GOP Voters Placing Premium on Knowledge, Skills
Philip Klein, Examiner
Critics have accused the Republican electorate in recent years of putting a higher premium on ideological fervor than on policy knowledge.But the success of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the current presidential primary fight undercuts this charge.
The Tip of the Spear in Afghanistan
Jake Tapper, ABC News
On Nightline Thursday night, we looked at U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Here are the three stories:1) Tip of the Spear