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The Congress is about to approve the Equality Law. Do you think this is a positive law?

Yes	80.4%
No	6.9%

The law establishes that electoral lists should have the same number of men and women. Do you support or oppose this measure?

Support	76.0%
Oppose	17.5%

The law also establishes that the corporate boards of businesses should also have the same number of men and women. Do you support or oppose this measure?

Support	68.7%
Oppose	20.9%

Source: Instituto Opina / Cadena Ser
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,000 Spanish adults, conducted on Mar. 15, 2007. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent.

France: Sarkozy and Royal Tied

Which candidate would you support in the first round of the presidential election?

	Mar. 24	Mar. 17	Mar. 10
Nicolas Sarkozy	27%	29%	28%
Ségolène Royal	27%	26%	26%
François Bayrou	20%	22%	22%
Jean-Marie Le Pen	12%	12.5%	13.5%
Olivier Besancenot	3%	2.5%	2%
Arlette Laguiller	2.5%	1%	2%
Marie-George Buffet	2%	2%	2.5%
Frédéric Nihous	2%	1%	--
José Bové	1.5%	1.5%	1.5%
Philippe de Villiers	1.5%	1.5%	1.5%
Dominique Voynet	1%	1%	1%
Gérard Schivardi	0.5%	--	--

Run-Off Scenarios

Sarkozy v. Royal

	Mar. 24	Mar. 17	Mar. 10
Nicolas Sarkozy	51%	52%	52%
Ségolène Royal	49%	48%	48%

Sarkozy v. Bayrou

	Mar. 24	Mar. 17
François Bayrou	60%	57%
Nicolas Sarkozy	40%	43%

Source: Louis-Harris / RMC
Methodology: Interviews with 1,004 French adults, conducted on Mar. 23 and Mar. 24, 2007. No margin of error was provided.

UK: Conservatives Lead by 8 pts.

If there were a general election tomorrow, which party would you vote for?

	Mar. 22	Mar. 16	Feb. 21
Conservative	39%	38%	37%
Labour	31%	32%	32%
Liberal Democrats	16%	16%	17%
Other	14%	14%	14%

Source: YouGov / Daily Telegraph
Methodology: Online interviews with 2,752 British adults, conducted on Mar. 21 and Mar. 22, 2007. No margin of error was provided.

McCain Lead Over Hillary Grows; Stays Tied With Obama

Possible match-ups - 2008 U.S. presidential election

McCain v. Rodham Clinton

	Mar. 15	Jan. 25	Dec. 19
John McCain (R)	48%	45%	49%
Hillary Rodham Clinton (D)	41%	44%	45%

McCain v. Obama

	Mar. 15	Feb. 8	Jan. 18
Barack Obama (D)	44%	44%	47%
John McCain (R)	44%	44%	44%

Source: Rasmussen Reports
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 800 likely American voters, conducted on Mar. 14 and Mar. 15, 2007. Margin of error is 4 per cent.

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Who is winning the war on terror?

	Mar. 20	Feb. 22	Jan. 30
U.S. / Allies	38%	36%	37%
Terrorists	34%	36%	32%
Neither	23%	23%	27%
Not sure	5%	5%	5%

Source: Rasmussen Reports
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 800 likely American voters, conducted on Mar. 19 and Mar. 20, 2007. Margin of error is 4 per cent.

Israel: Likud Continues to Have Strong Lead

Prospective results of a Knesset election
(Results presented in seats)

	Mar. 2007	Nov. 2006
Likud (Consolidation)	35	29
Israel Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu)	16	14
Kadima (Forward)	13	18
Labour	13	12
International Organization of Torah-observant Sephardic Jews (Shas)	9	10
National Union (Ikhud) and Mafdal (National Religious Party)	9	9
Together (Yachad)	6	7
Gil (Retired People’s Party)	4	6
Yahadut Hatorah (United Torah Judaism)	5	5
Arab parties	10	10

Source: Teleseker / Maariv
Methodology: Interviews with 460 Israeli adults, conducted on Mar. 22, 2007. Margin of error is 4.3 per cent.

New Hampshire: McCain & Hillary Lead

If the 2008 Republican presidential preference primary were being held today, for whom would you vote?

	Mar. 2007	Feb. 2007	Dec. 2006
John McCain	23%	27%	29%
Rudy Giuliani	19%	20%	25%
Mitt Romney	17%	20%	9%
Newt Gingrich	11%	11%	14%
Fred Thompson	10%	--	--
Chuck Hagel	2%	4%	2%
Sam Brownback	2%	1%	--
Tom Tancredo	1%	1%	--
Mike Huckabee	--	1%	1%
George Pataki	--	--	2%
Jim Gilmore	--	--	1%
Undecided	15%	15%	17%

If the 2008 Democratic presidential caucus were being held today, for whom would you vote?

	Mar. 2007	Feb. 2007	Dec. 2006
Hillary Rodham Clinton	37%	39%	27%
Barack Obama	23%	19%	21%
John Edwards	20%	13%	18%
Bill Richardson	2%	2%	2%
Joe Biden	2%	1%	1%
Dennis Kucinich	1%	1%	4%
Wesley Clark	1%	2%	2%
Chris Dodd	1%	1%	1%
Tom Vilsack	n.a.	1%	1%
John Kerry	n.a.	--	6%
Undecided	12%	21%	17%

Source: American Research Group
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 600 likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire, and 600 likely Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire, conducted Mar. 19 to Mar. 22, 2007. Margin of error is 4 per cent.

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Spain: Socialists Lead by 5

What party would you support in the next general election?

	Mar. 15	Mar. 7	Feb. 23
Socialist Worker’s Party (PSOE)	43%	43%	44%
Popular Party (PP)	38%	40%	38%
United Left (IU) / Initiative for Catalonia-Greens (IC-V)	5.5%	5%	5%
Convergence and Union (CiU)	3.5%	3%	3.6%
Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC)	2%	2%	1.9%
Basque Nationalist Party (PNV)	1.5%	1%	1.5%

Source: Instituto Opina / Cadena Ser
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,000 Spanish adults, conducted on Mar. 15, 2007. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent.

More Palestinians Oppose Peace

I guess they have not had enough of self-destruction:

Do you support or oppose a peace settlement with Israel?

	Mar. 2007	Jan. 2007
Support	68%	72%
Oppose	32%	28%

Source: Near East Consulting
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 806 Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem, conducted on Mar. 17 and Mar. 18, 2007. Margin of error is 3.4 per cent.

Giuliani Leads by 20

Now I’m going to read a list of candidates who might be running for the Republican Party presidential nomination in 2008. If the Republican presidential primary or caucus in your state were being held today, listen carefully to the names and then tell me which candidate you would be most likely to vote for.
(Republicans and Republican leaners)

	Mar. 2007	Feb. 2007	Jan. 2007
Rudy Giuliani	40%	38%	26%
John McCain	20%	24%	30%
Newt Gingrich	10%	12%	14%
Mitt Romney	7%	7%	5%
Sam Brownback	2%	2%	3%
Mike Huckabee	2%	1%	1%
Chuck Hagel	1%	1%	1%
Jim Gilmore	1%	--	1%
Tom Tancredo	--	2%	1%
George Pataki	--	--	2%
Other	2%	1%	1%
Will not vote	2%	1%	1%
Unsure	13%	12%	14%

Source: Schulman, Ronca, & Bucuvalas (SRBI) Public Affairs / Time
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,500 registered American voters, conducted from Mar. 9 to Mar. 12, 2007. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

Big Sister Leads Democrat Primary by 8 pts.

Now I’m going to read a list of candidates who might be running for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2008. If the Democratic presidential primary or caucus in your state were being held today, listen carefully to the names and then tell me which candidate you would be most likely to vote for.
(Democrats and Democratic leaners)

	Mar. 2007	Feb. 2007	Jan. 2007
Hillary Rodham Clinton	34%	36%	40%
Barack Obama	26%	24%	21%
Al Gore	13%	13%	9%
John Edwards	10%	11%	11%
Bill Richardson	2%	3%	4%
Dennis Kucinich	2%	--	1%
Joe Biden	1%	2%	2%
Al Sharpton	1%	1%	1%
Chris Dodd	--	1%	1%
John Kerry	n.a.	n.a	4%
Other	1%	1%	1%
Will not vote	1%	1%	--
Unsure	10%	7%	6%

Source: Schulman, Ronca, & Bucuvalas (SRBI) Public Affairs / Time
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,500 registered American voters, conducted from Mar. 9 to Mar. 12, 2007. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

France: Sarkozy & Royal Tied

Among the following candidates, who are you most likely to vote for in the first round of the presidential election?

	Mar. 22	Mar. 14	Mar. 7
Nicolas Sarkozy	26%	27%	26%
Ségolène Royal	26%	26%	25%
François Bayrou	21%	21%	24%
Jean-Marie Le Pen	13%	14%	14%
Olivier Besancenot	3.5%	2%	2.5%
Marie-George Buffet	3%	2%	1%
Arlette Laguiller	2%	2%	1%
José Bové	2%	2%	3%
Philippe de Villiers	1.5%	1.5%	1%
Dominique Voynet	1%	1%	1%
Frédéric Nihous	0.5%	0.5%	0.5%
Gérard Schivardi	0.5%	0.5%	--
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan	n.a.	0.5%	0.5%
Corinne Lepage	n.a.	--	0.5%

Run-Off Scenario

	Mar. 22	Mar. 14	Mar. 7
Nicolas Sarkozy	50%	53%	53%
Ségolène Royal	50%	47%	47%

Source: CSA / Le Parisien
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 894 French adults, conducted on Mar. 21 and Mar. 22, 2007. No margin of error was provided.

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1. “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” by The Who. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
The conservative movement is full of disillusioned revolutionaries; this could be their theme song, an oath that swears off naïve idealism once and for all. “There’s nothing in the streets / Looks any different to me / And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye. . . . Meet the new boss / Same as the old boss.” The instantly recognizable synthesizer intro, Pete Townshend’s ringing guitar, Keith Moon’s pounding drums, and Roger Daltrey’s wailing vocals make this one of the most explosive rock anthems ever recorded — the best number by a big band, and a classic for conservatives.

2. “Taxman,” by The Beatles. buy CD on Amazon.com
A George Harrison masterpiece with a famous guitar riff (which was actually played by Paul McCartney): “If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street / If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat / If you get too cold, I’ll tax the heat / If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.” The song closes with a humorous jab at death taxes: “Now my advice for those who die / Declare the pennies on your eyes.”

3. “Sympathy for the Devil,” by The Rolling Stones. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
Don’t be misled by the title; this song is The Screwtape Letters of rock. The devil is a tempter who leans hard on moral relativism — he will try to make you think that “every cop is a criminal / And all the sinners saints.” What’s more, he is the sinister inspiration for the cruelties of Bolshevism: “I stuck around St. Petersburg / When I saw it was a time for a change / Killed the czar and his ministers / Anastasia screamed in vain.”

4. “Sweet Home Alabama,” by Lynyrd Skynyrd. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
A tribute to the region of America that liberals love to loathe, taking a shot at Neil Young’s Canadian arrogance along the way: “A Southern man don’t need him around anyhow.”

5. “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” by The Beach Boys. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
Pro-abstinence and pro-marriage: “Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray it might come true / Baby then there wouldn’t be a single thing we couldn’t do / We could be married / And then we’d be happy.”

6. “Gloria,” by U2. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
Just because a rock song is about faith doesn’t mean that it’s conservative. But what about a rock song that’s about faith and whose chorus is in Latin? That’s beautifully reactionary: “Gloria / In te domine / Gloria / Exultate.”

7. “Revolution,” by The Beatles. buy CD on Amazon.com
“You say you want a revolution / Well you know / We all want to change the world . . . Don’t you know you can count me out?” What’s more, Communism isn’t even cool: “If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao / You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow.” (Someone tell the Che Guevara crowd.)

8. “Bodies,” by The Sex Pistols. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
Violent and vulgar, but also a searing anti-abortion anthem by the quintessential punk band: “It’s not an animal / It’s an abortion.”

9. “Don’t Tread on Me,” by Metallica. buy CD on Amazon.com
A head-banging tribute to the doctrine of peace through strength, written in response to the first Gulf War: “So be it / Threaten no more / To secure peace is to prepare for war.”

10. “20th Century Man,” by The Kinks. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
“You keep all your smart modern writers / Give me William Shakespeare / You keep all your smart modern painters / I’ll take Rembrandt, Titian, da Vinci, and Gainsborough. . . . I was born in a welfare state / Ruled by bureaucracy / Controlled by civil servants / And people dressed in grey / Got no privacy got no liberty / ’Cause the 20th-century people / Took it all away from me.”

11. “The Trees,” by Rush. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
Before there was Rush Limbaugh, there was Rush, a Canadian band whose lyrics are often libertarian. What happens in a forest when equal rights become equal outcomes? “The trees are all kept equal / By hatchet, axe, and saw.”

12. “Neighborhood Bully,” by Bob Dylan. ; buy CD on Amazon.com A pro-Israel song released in 1983, two years after the bombing of Iraq’s nuclear reactor, this ironic number could be a theme song for the Bush Doctrine: “He destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad / The bombs were meant for him / He was supposed to feel bad / He’s the neighborhood bully.”

13. “My City Was Gone,” by The Pretenders. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
Virtually every conservative knows the bass line, which supplies the theme music for Limbaugh’s radio show. But the lyrics also display a Jane Jacobs sensibility against central planning and a conservative’s dissatisfaction with rapid change: “I went back to Ohio / But my pretty countryside / Had been paved down the middle / By a government that had no pride.”

14. “Right Here, Right Now,” by Jesus Jones. buy CD on Amazon.com
The words are vague, but they’re also about the fall of Communism and the end of the Cold War: “I was alive and I waited for this. . . . Watching the world wake up from history.”

15. “I Fought the Law,” by The Crickets. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
The original law-and-order classic, made famous in 1965 by The Bobby Fuller Four and covered by just about everyone since then.

16. “Get Over It,” by The Eagles. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
Against the culture of grievance: “The big, bad world doesn’t owe you a thing.” There’s also this nice line: “I’d like to find your inner child and kick its little ass.”

17. “Stay Together for the Kids,” by Blink 182. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
A eulogy for family values by an alt-rock band whose members were raised in a generation without enough of them: “So here’s your holiday / Hope you enjoy it this time / You gave it all away. . . . It’s not right.”

18. “Cult of Personality,” by Living Colour. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
A hard-rocking critique of state power, whacking Mussolini, Stalin, and even JFK: “I exploit you, still you love me / I tell you one and one makes three / I’m the cult of personality.”

19. “Kicks,” by Paul Revere and the Raiders. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
An anti-drug song that is also anti-utopian: “Well, you think you’re gonna find yourself a little piece of paradise / But it ain’t happened yet, so girl you better think twice.”

20. “Rock the Casbah,” by The Clash. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
After 9/11, American radio stations were urged not to play this 1982 song, one of the biggest hits by a seminal punk band, because it was seen as too provocative. Meanwhile, British Forces Broadcasting Service (the radio station for British troops serving in Iraq) has said that this is one of its most requested tunes.

21. “Heroes,” by David Bowie. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
A Cold War love song about a man and a woman divided by the Berlin Wall. No moral equivalence here: “I can remember / Standing / By the wall / And the guns / Shot above our heads / And we kissed / As though nothing could fall / And the shame / Was on the other side / Oh we can beat them / For ever and ever.”

22. “Red Barchetta,” by Rush. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
In a time of “the Motor Law,” presumably legislated by green extremists, the singer describes family reunion and the thrill of driving a fast car — an act that is his “weekly crime.”

23. “Brick,” by Ben Folds Five. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
Written from the perspective of a man who takes his young girlfriend to an abortion clinic, this song describes the emotional scars of “reproductive freedom”: “Now she’s feeling more alone / Than she ever has before. . . . As weeks went by / It showed that she was not fine.”

24. “Der Kommissar,” by After the Fire. buy CD on Amazon.com
On the misery of East German life: “Don’t turn around, uh-oh / Der Kommissar’s in town, uh-oh / He’s got the power / And you’re so weak / And your frustration / Will not let you speak.” Also a hit song for Falco, who wrote it.

25. “The Battle of Evermore,” by Led Zeppelin. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
The lyrics are straight out of Robert Plant’s Middle Earth period — there are lines about “ring wraiths” and “magic runes” — but for a song released in 1971, it’s hard to miss the Cold War metaphor: “The tyrant’s face is red.”

26. “Capitalism,” by Oingo Boingo. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
“There’s nothing wrong with Capitalism / There’s nothing wrong with free enterprise. . . . You’re just a middle class, socialist brat / From a suburban family and you never really had to work.”

27. “Obvious Song,” by Joe Jackson. buy CD on Amazon.com
For property rights and economic development, and against liberal hypocrisy: “There was a man in the jungle / Trying to make ends meet / Found himself one day with an axe in his hand / When a voice said ‘Buddy can you spare that tree / We gotta save the world — starting with your land’ / It was a rock ’n’ roll millionaire from the USA / Doing three to the gallon in a big white car / And he sang and he sang ’til he polluted the air / And he blew a lot of smoke from a Cuban cigar.”

28. “Janie’s Got a Gun,” by Aerosmith. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
How the right to bear arms can protect women from sexual predators: “What did her daddy do? / It’s Janie’s last I.O.U. / She had to take him down easy / And put a bullet in his brain / She said ’cause nobody believes me / The man was such a sleaze / He ain’t never gonna be the same.”

29. “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” by Iron Maiden. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
A heavy-metal classic inspired by a literary classic. How many other rock songs quote directly from Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

30. “You Can’t Be Too Strong,” by Graham Parker. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
Although it’s not explicitly pro-life, this tune describes the horror of abortion with bracing honesty: “Did they tear it out with talons of steel, and give you a shot so that you wouldn’t feel?”

31. “Small Town,” by John Mellencamp. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
A Burkean rocker: “No, I cannot forget where it is that I come from / I cannot forget the people who love me.”

32. “Keep Your Hands to Yourself,” by The Georgia Satellites. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
An outstanding vocal performance, with lyrics that affirm old-time sexual mores: “She said no huggy, no kissy until I get a wedding vow.”

33. “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” by The Rolling Stones. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
You can “[go] down to the demonstration” and vent your frustration, but you must understand that there’s no such thing as a perfect society — there are merely decent and free ones.

34. “Godzilla,” by Blue öyster Cult. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
A 1977 classic about a big green monster — and more: “History shows again and again / How nature points up the folly of men.”

35. “Who’ll Stop the Rain,” by Creedence Clearwater Revival. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
Written as an anti–Vietnam War song, this tune nevertheless is pessimistic about activism and takes a dim view of both Communism and liberalism: “Five-year plans and new deals, wrapped in golden chains . . .”

36. “Government Cheese,” by The Rainmakers. buy CD on Amazon.com
A protest song against the welfare state by a Kansas City band that deserved more success than it got. The first line: “Give a man a free house and he’ll bust out the windows.”

37. “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” by The Band. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
Despite its sins, the American South always has been about more than racism — this song captures its pride and tradition.

38. “I Can’t Drive 55,” by Sammy Hagar. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
A rocker’s objection to the nanny state. (See also Hagar’s pro-America song “VOA.”)

39. “Property Line,” by The Marshall Tucker Band. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
The secret to happiness, according to these southern-rock heavyweights, is life, liberty, and property: “Well my idea of a good time / Is walkin’ my property line / And knowin’ the mud on my boots is mine.”

40. “Wake Up Little Susie,” by The Everly Brothers. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
A smash hit in 1957, back when high-school social pressures were rather different from what they have become: “We fell asleep, our goose is cooked, our reputation is shot.”

41. “The Icicle Melts,” by The Cranberries. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
A pro-life tune sung by Irish warbler Dolores O’Riordan: “I don’t know what’s happening to people today / When a child, he was taken away . . . ’Cause nine months is too long.”

42. “Everybody’s a Victim,” by The Proclaimers. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
Best known for their smash hit “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles),” this Scottish band also recorded a catchy song about the problem of suspending moral judgment: “It doesn’t matter what I do / You have to say it’s all right . . . Everybody’s a victim / We’re becoming like the USA.”

43. “Wonderful,” by Everclear. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
A child’s take on divorce: “I don’t wanna hear you say / That I will understand someday / No, no, no, no / I don’t wanna hear you say / You both have grown in a different way / No, no, no, no / I don’t wanna meet your friends / And I don’t wanna start over again / I just want my life to be the same / Just like it used to be.”

44. “Two Sisters,” by The Kinks. buy CD on Amazon.com
Why the “drudgery of being wed” is more rewarding than bohemian life.

45. “Taxman, Mr. Thief,” by Cheap Trick. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
An anti-tax protest song: “You work hard, you went hungry / Now the taxman is out to get you. . . . He hates you, he loves money.”

46. “Wind of Change,” by The Scorpions. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
A German hard-rock group’s optimistic power ballad about the end of the Cold War and national reunification: “The world is closing in / Did you ever think / That we could be so close, like brothers / The future’s in the air / I can feel it everywhere / Blowing with the wind of change.”

47. “One,” by Creed. ; buy CD on Amazon.com Against racial preferences: “Society blind by color / Why hold down one to raise another / Discrimination now on both sides / Seeds of hate blossom further.”

48. “Why Don’t You Get a Job,” by The Offspring. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
The lyrics aren’t exactly Shakespearean, but they’re refreshingly blunt and they capture a motive force behind welfare reform.

49. “Abortion,” by Kid Rock. buy CD on Amazon.com
A plaintive song sung by a man who confronts his unborn child’s abortion: “I know your brothers and your sister and your mother too / Man I wish you could see them too.”

50. “Stand By Your Man,” by Tammy Wynette. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
Hillary trashed it — isn’t that enough? If you’re worried that Wynette’s original is too country, then check out the cover version by Motörhead.

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