Fifty-one percent (51%) of American adults say alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Just 19% disagree and say pot is worse.
But 25% say both are equally dangerous. Just two percent (2%) say neither is dangerous.
Younger adults are more likely than their elders to view alcohol as the more dangerous of the two.
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Boren refused to endorse Obama, called the Cap and trade bill the ‘worst bill he’s even seen‘ and opposes single payer health care. He is the only Democratic Congressman from Oklahoma.
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President Obama, who won the White House with an electoral college landslide and enjoyed soaring public approval in the weeks after his inauguration, has fallen to a 50% job approval rating in the newest daily tracking of the Gallup Poll released Thursday.
The new low for Obama compares with his peak public job approval rating of 69% after his inauguration in January.
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"I hope I can serve as an example to people who face a lot of struggles."
Demers was at an event with the prime minister Thursday, seated in the front row during a lunchtime announcement by Harper at Laval university.
He is the last man to coach a Canadian team to the Stanley Cup, a feat he achieved in his first year behind the Montreal Canadiens' bench in 1993.
He told interviewers that, as recently as 2005, he could only write his name and a few other words.
In November 2005, Demers released a biography, written by journalist Mario LeClerc, in which he revealed that he is functionally illiterate and had to hide it throughout his life.
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Democrats have consistently argued that Vitter is vulnerable for 2010, in part because of the scandal he faced after the 2007 revelation that his name was in the phone records of a Washington, D.C., escort service associated with prostitution. And Melancon — a leader of the Blue Dog Coalition of conservative-leaning House Democrats — provides the party with a formidable opponent for Vitter.
But the strongly conservative tendencies of Louisiana’s voters have given momentum to the state’s Republicans. Vitter, who won the seat with 51 percent of the vote in the strongly Republican year of 2004, led Melancon by 47 percent to 37 percent, in a poll done by the firm that Melancon uses, Anzalone Liszt Research, this according to a June 12 memo prepared for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
"These things are always done with the best of intentions but we have to think whether this will lead to any unintended consequences. When the child finds out they have two mummies, how will they feel?Daily Mail'We have to have a lot of sympathy for those with inherited conditions but we need to be very careful before we start interfering with nature.
'There's a thought that because scientists can do something they always want to do it and that's not necessarily the right way."
New Jersey Survey of 500 Likely Voters
August 25, 2009
| 2009 New Jersey Governor Race | |
|---|---|
Chris Christie (R) | 47% |
Jon Corzine (D) | 36% |
Some Other Candidate | 7% |
Not Sure | 11% |
Assemblyman Anthony Chiappone (D-Bayonne) and his wife, Diane, face a seven count indictment today on charges that they funneled legislative paychecks for aides into Chiappone’s 2005 campaign account and a personal account.
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The statewide poll found 44% of likely primary voters saying they favored [Scott] Walker vs. 43% for [Tom] Barrett, with 13% undecided, according to the poll. Walker is an announced Republican candidate for governor. Barrett, a Democrat, has not said whether he’s interested in running for governor.
In other hypothetical general election matchups, the poll found Walker with 48% to 40% over Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton and Walker over U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, 49% to 39%.
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Surprisingly enough, this brings things back full circle to Romney, who up to now has been busy laying the groundwork for another presidential bid in 2012. It would be an intriguing thing if, after waiting a day or two out of respect for the late senator, Romney were to downshift and announce he will be a candidate in the upcoming election to fill Kennedy's vacant Senate seat.
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Maybe he will, maybe he won't (run, that is) -- but Arkansas state Sen. Bob Johnson's announcement that he is mulling a Democratic primary challenge to U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln is an indication that even members of Lincoln's own party view her as a potential target in 2010.
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Montgomery Senator Richard Maldaleno (D-Dist. 18) is planning on re-introducing an internet sales tax, with the homes of bringing in an estimated $7.5 million to help the state’s budget woes…which is usually in the hundreds of millions.
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Nearly everyone seems to agree that President Obama is bleeding liberal support over his overly conciliatory approach to the GOP on health care reform and his apparent softening of support for the public option.
But is it true?
Yep, it certainly may be true, if you believe the new Research 2000 poll for DailyKos. The survey finds a surprisingly sharp drop in the favorability ratings of Obama and Congressional Dems — among Democrats.
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Survey of 500 Likely Voters
August 20, 2009
| Election 2010: Massachusetts Governor | |
|---|---|
Christy Mihos (R) | 40% |
Deval Patrick (D) | 35% |
Some other candidate | 11% |
Not sure | 15% |
| Election 2010: Massachusetts Governor | |
|---|---|
Charlie Baker (R) | 39% |
Deval Patrick (D) | 40% |
Some other candidate | 7% |
Not sure | 15% |
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"After failing to make good on his promises to be fully transparent with New Jersey's finances, Governor Corzine finds himself with his back to the wall in this campaign and has suddenly rediscovered his interest in disclosure,” [State Senator Jay] Webber said. “The governor should follow his own calls for disclosure and immediately release all of his activities in lobbying the Clinton Administration to change its position toward Monthly Income Preferred Shares (MIPS).”
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Tipsters inside Fox News tell us Glenn Beck's vacation this week from his Fox News show was not planned. We hear Beck was told to take this week off to let some of the heat surrounding him die down. That heat began July 28 on "Fox & Friends" when Beck said he thought Pres. Obama has "a deep-seated hatred for white people," adding, "This guy is, I believe, a racist."
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Annie Lennox opened the Edinburgh Festival of Politics yesterday with a stinging attack on the Pope’s approach to HIV/Aids prevention in Africa.
She said that the Pope’s denunciation of condoms on his recent tour of Africa had caused “tremendous harm” and criticised the Roman Catholic Church for causing widespread confusion on the continent.
She also condemned the media’s obessesion with “celebrity culture” for keeping the Aids pandemic off the front page.
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Push Poll: technique in which an individual or organization attempts to influence or alter the view of respondents under the guise of conducting a poll.By that definition, it sure seems that NBC is push polling on behalf of ObamaCare. On this morning's Today, NBC News Political Director and Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd reported on a new NBC poll that reflected the fact that, according to him, many Americans continue to believe "the myths" about ObamaCare. But Todd reported that the NBC pollsters also gave people "the facts" about ObamaCare. And after hearing those "facts," a majority supported the plan. Sounds like classic push polling.
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Although few Democratic officials have concluded that it's time to start panicking, there are disturbing political trends developing right at the time that members are starting to think seriously about the midterm elections.
The outlines of a significant political problem have emerged: the possibility that the White House simultaneously disillusions liberal Democrats and angers Republicans.
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According to the results of the poll conducted by Washington, D.C.-based Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, Inc., 17 percent of Republican voters would support Gibbons in the primary, well behind 33 percent for Sandoval.
In a Democratic primary that includes Goodman, Reid got support from 13 percent of voters, trailing Buckley's 25 percent and Goodman's 34 percent.
Sandoval was the respondents' favorite candidate in every general election scenario, leading Goodman by 7 percentage points, Buckley by 8 and Reid by 17.
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“I’ve never been to his place. I hear it’s beautiful,” said state Rep. Bradley H. Jones Jr. (R-North Reading), who ripped the governor for refusing to reopen pools.
“Quite frankly, it’s a lack of leadership on his part,” Jones said. “I certainly think he should try, but the administration’s attitude seems to be, ‘We’ve made our decision.’ ”
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Starting Sept. 13, the popular Grant will be heard again on WABC every Sunday, noon-2 p.m. And yes, sure, absolutely, he's happy."I'm addicted" to talking on the radio, says Grant. "I admit it."
There's also a lot to talk about these days, he says - particularly for conservative hosts, who once again have a President they can tee off on.
"I wish I had a dollar," he says, "for everyone who's come up to me and said, 'Bob, you were right about everything that's happened.'"
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"This sizeable lead for Christie means the potential for coattails exists for GOP assembly candidates whose central campaign theme includes lowering taxes and reducing government spending, cleaning up political corruption and bringing change to Trenton," Jim Lee, the president of Susquehanna Polling and Research, a Pennsylvania-based firm, wrote in an analysis memo to the Assembly GOP leadership.
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Republican Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum leads the state's Chief Financial Officer, Democrat Alex Sink, 38 - 34 percent among registered voters in the 2010 Governor's race, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
This reverses a 38 - 34 percent Sink lead in a June 9 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University. The key is among independent voters who shift from 32 - 27 percent for McCollum June 9 to 38 - 23 percent today.
Gov. Charlie Crist leads former state House Speaker Marco Rubio 55 - 26 percent for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, compared to 54 - 23 percent margin June 10.
The three potential candidates for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination, U.S. Reps. Kendrick Meek, Ron Klein and Corrine Brown, are bunched together and largely unknown to most Floridians.
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The percentage of Americans who hold a favorable view of the Democratic Party has slipped below 50 percent for the first time since President Barack Obama took office, according to a new Pew Research Center poll released Wednesday.
Only 49 percent of Americans now hold a favorable view of the Democratic Party, down from 62 percent in the same poll shortly after Obama assumed office. Democratic favorable ratings hovered around 60 percent as recently as April, when 59 percent of those polled held a favorable view.
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