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Results of Recent PollsThis poll ran from April 28 to May 4, 2008.
From the op-ed article "Indiana, go with Obama" published in the May 4, 2008 edition of the Chicago Tribune. In endorsing Senator Barack Obama over Senator Hillary Clinton for the Indiana Democratic Party presidential primary to be held on May 6, the Tribune editorial staff wrote: "Look what we've seen from Hillary Clinton's campaign in recent weeks. Her embellishments about the purported danger of a 1996 trip to Bosnia. Bill Clinton's statement that the Obama campaign "played the race card on me"—and Clinton's later, laughable denial that he had used those words. We've seen a campaign that has sought to tear down its opponent and pander to voters. The Clinton campaign is playing just the kind of politics that Americans say they detest. "We need a president who can forge consensus and compromise among ideological foes. Barack Obama is that kind of Democrat; Hillary Clinton is not." This poll ran from April 28 to May 4, 2008.
Ahmad Ghoreishi, professor emeritus in the department of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. As reported by Ryan Morgan in the article "World watches presidential contest," published in the April 11, 2008 issue of the Boulder Daily Camera, Ghoreishi said of Senator Barack Obama: "The world is fascinated by him -- by a first-generation black man running for president. When it comes down to it, the vast majority of people don't think Americans will do it -- once they're in the voting booth, they won't vote for a black man." This poll ran from April 21 to 27, 2008.
At a U.S. Senate hearing in 2004, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) said that "there are probably very few people in this room or in America who would say that torture should never be used." And in an interview on BBC Radio Four in February 2008, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said "How close does the threat have to be? How severe can the infliction of pain be? I don't think these are easy questions at all... But I certainly know you can't come in smugly and with great self-satisfaction and say, "Oh, it's torture and therefore it's no good." This poll ran from April 14 to 20, 2008.
On May 6, 2005, Matthew Felling spoke with Kai Ryssdal on the NPR News program "Marketplace" about the continuing decline in newspaper circulation. Felling is the media director at The Center for Media and Public Affairs. "I don't mean to sound Panglossian, but I'm surprised that circulation figures didn't fall more steeply," said Felling about the continuing decline in newspaper readership. "By giving away their product free online to anyone with an Internet connection, newspapers are, in effect, bootlegging themselves into a corner." This poll ran from April 7 to 13, 2008.
Clay Evans, from the "Insight" section of the Boulder Daily Camera on April 6, 2008. In an op-ed titled "No news will be bad news," he writes: "We're now wading into a future where the only information we receive is from people who agree with us, or some guy outside a grocery store handing us a petition. Or not at all. "But here's a little secret: Chances are good that when you do a Google search on current events, most of the "content" you pull up will have come from newspapers. And as newspapers gradually collapse and readers and advertisers flee, there's simply going to be less reliable news out there." This poll ran from March 31 to April 6, 2008.
We have asked this question about President George W. Bush many times before. The last time was July 23 to 29, 2007. This poll ran from March 24 to 30, 2008.
Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the former top commander of American troops in Iraq, as quoted by David S. Cloud in the article "Ex-Commander Says Iraq Effort Is 'a Nightmare'" from the October 13, 2007 edition of The New York Times. Cloud writes: "In a sweeping indictment of the four-year effort in Iraq, the former top commander of American forces there called the George W. Bush administration's handling of the war "incompetent" and said the result was "a nightmare with no end in sight." "Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, who retired in 2006 after being replaced in Iraq after the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, blamed the Bush administration for a "catastrophically flawed, unrealistically optimistic war plan" and denounced the current addition of American forces as a "desperate" move that would not achieve long-term stability. "After more than four years of fighting, America continues its desperate struggle in Iraq without any concerted effort to devise a strategy that will achieve victory in that war-torn country or in the greater conflict against extremism," General Sanchez said at a gathering of military reporters and editors in Arlington, Va. "He is the most senior war commander of a string of retired officers who have harshly criticized the administration's conduct of the war. While much of the previous condemnation has been focused on the role of former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, General Sanchez's was an unusually broad attack on the overall course of the war." This poll ran from March 17 to 23, 2008.
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, from the new book "Where Does the Money Go? Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis." in the Sunday New York Times on March 16, 2008, Harry Hurt III wrote that "Here is the very pressing issue the book addresses: "The United States is seemingly addicted to spending more than it takes in," the authors assert. With a staggering national debt, and expenses that will only grow as more baby boomers retire, they warn, "today's problems will seem like a fender bender compared to the economic train wreck the country will face if we don't get the nation's finances under control." Scott Bittle is the executive editor of the web site Public Agenda Online, and Jean Johnson is the executive vice president and founder of the site. Bittle and Johnson note that the United States government has amassed a debt that now exceeds $9 trillion, with over $2 trillion owed to foreign banks and other international investors. China alone holds $420 billion, based on figures from the 2006 budget. This poll ran from March 10 to 16, 2008.
Zhang Qingli, the Tibet region Chinese Communist Party secretary. Zhang did not say how the Dalai Lama was trying to sabotage the Games. Repoting from Beijing on Saturday, March 8 2008, Anita Chang of the Associated Press wrote that "Chinese officials accused the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, of trying to sabotage this summer's Beijing Olympics, suggesting Friday they are prepared to take harsh measures against any group causing instability in the Himalayan region. "The ruling Communist Party routinely accuses the Dalai Lama of trying to undermine Chinese authority by pushing for independence for Tibet, although he says he wants meaninful autonomy for the region, not independence." This poll ran from March 3 to 9, 2008.
Paul Krugman, from the op-ed article "Socialist Plot," published in the August 28, 2007 edition of The New York Times. Krugman wrote: "The truth is that there's no difference in principle between saying that every American child is entitled to an education and saying that every American child is entitled to adequate health care. It's just a matter of historical accident that we think of access to free K-12 education as a basic right, but consider having the government pay children's medical bills "welfare," with all the negative connotations that go with that term. "We offer free education, and don’t worry about middle-class families getting benefits they don’t need, because that’s the only way to ensure that every child gets an education — and giving every child a fair chance is the American way. And we should guarantee health care to every child, for the same reason." This poll ran from February 25 to March 2, 2008.
As of February 24, 2008, Senator Hillary Clinton trails Illinois Senator Barack Obama in delegates to the national convention that will pick the Democratic candidate for the November 2008 U.S. presidential election. A number of observers, including Reuters, have said that Clinton needs to win both of the March 4 primaries in Texas and Ohio to stay in the race. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, has conceded that this is true. The Democratic party national convention will be held in Denver, Colorado on August 25 to 28, 2008. This poll ran from February 18 to 24, 2008.
David Plouffe, campaign manager of the presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama. Plouffe was quoted by Hope Yen of the Associated Press in the article "Clinton advisor changes stance on delegates," published on February 17, 2008. Referring to the attempt by the campaign of Senator Hillary Clinton to win Democratic party delegates in the state of Florida, Plouffe said "The Clinton campaign should focus on winning pledged delegates as a result of elections, not these say-or-do-anything-to-win tactics that could undermine Democrats' ability to win the general election." This poll ran from February 11 to 17, 2008.
Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) speaking on December 16, 2007. In the article "President lacks tech awareness," published in the February 4, 2008 issue of eWeek magazine, Roy Mark wrote that "Dodd vowed to filibuster any bill granting immunity to the carriers. "For the last six years, the telecom companies have been spying on their customers without warrants," Dodd said. Writing about the renewal of FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), Mark added that "The carriers contend they relied on existing federal, state and local laws, as well as assurances from the highest level of government, to provide customer telephone and e-mail records -- often without a warrant or subpoena -- to the government." "The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the co-lead counsel in the nearly 40 pending lawsuits against the major telephone carriers, contends the carriers broke the law by providing the National Security Agency with the full content of billions of e-mail messages, text messages and VOIP (voice over IP) calls." This poll ran from February 4 to 10, 2008.
From the article "Microsoft Makes Grab for Yahoo" by Kevin J. Delaney, Robert A. Guth and Matthew Karnitschnig in the February 2, 2008 edition of The Wall Street Journal. On Thursday, January 31, 2008, Microsoft offered $44.6 billion to buy Yahoo Inc. The writers noted that "Microsoft believes that buying Yahoo is essential for gaining ground on Google. In his letter to Yahoo's board, (Microsoft President) Mr. Ballmer said the online-advertising market is "incrasingly dominated by one player" -- a clear reference to Google. The combination with Yahoo will "accelerate our path forward," Ballmer said in an interview Friday." They added that "For Microsoft, the move is an acknowledgement that its expensive foray into online services is failing, or at least not moving fast enough." This poll ran from January 28 to February 3, 2008.
Senator John McCain, from an interview with Beliefnet.com on October 5, 2007. McCain said "the Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation." Writing in the New York Times on October 7, Jon Meacham, the editor of Newsweek magazine, commented on the question of the Constitution: "The only acknowledgment of God in the original Constitution is a utilitarian one: the document is dated "in the year of our Lord 1787." Even the religion clause of the First Amendment is framed dryly and without reference to any particular faith. The Connecticut ratifying convention debated rewriting the preamble to take note of God’s authority, but the effort failed." This poll ran from January 21 to 27, 2008.
National Public Radio reported that "on January 15, 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that meat and milk from cloned animals are safe to eat. Critics immediately denounced the FDA's conclusions, saying the agency ignored the ethical problems with cloning. "Cloning creates a genetic copy of an animal, so making clones of a cow that produces an amazing amount of milk, for example, could be quite lucrative. Several companies are trying to make a business out of cloning; those animals could then be used for breeding. "FDA scientists studied the chemical composition of meat and milk from clones and decided that it's identical to what's on the market already. The European Food Safety Authority, in a draft report last week, came to a similar conclusion. "But opponents of cloning pointed to other data in the report, showing that the cloning process creates many animals that cannot survive. Also, many clones are unnaturally large when they're born, which can harm their surrogate mothers. But FDA officials say their job is just to look at food safety, not ethics." This poll ran from January 14 to 20, 2008.
From a study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, released on October 29, 2007. Titled "The Invisible Primary - Invisible No Longer," the study portrays the political press as a hidebound institution out of touch with the desires of citizens. Among the findings: -- Stories focused more on fundraising and polls than on where candidates stood on the issues, despite a public demand for more attention to the policies, views and records of the candidates. -- The public's attention to campaign news is higher now than it was at similar points in the past two elections, but that interest is only shared by less than one in four people. -- Five candidates — Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and Republicans Rudolph Giuliani, Mitt Romney and John McCain — received more than half the coverage. Elizabeth Edwards, the cancer-stricken wife of Democrat John Edwards, received almost as much media attention as her husband. -- Democrats, overall, got more coverage — and more positive ink and airtime — than Republicans. The report analyzed 1,742 articles about the presidential contest that appeared from January through May 2007 in 48 news outlets including print, online, network TV, cable and radio news and talk shows. This poll ran from January 7 to 13, 2008.
Marc Bekoff, Professor of Ecology and and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado in Boulder, from a letter to the editor published in the Boulder Daily Camera on December 31, 2007. Bekoff was commenting on the events of December 27, 2007 at the San Francisco Zoo, when a 300-pound Siberian tiger named Tatiana escaped from its enclosure, which is surrounded by a 15-foot-wide moat and 20-foot-high walls. The tiger killed a 17-year-old and mauled two others before being shot and killed by police officers.
Bekoff wrote: "These innocent victims suffered because large carnivores simply do not belong in zoos, and neither should these sentient and emotional beings be shipped here and there as if they were couches. Tigers and other animals have a point of view on what happens to them, and they don't like being treated as if they are inanimate objects. So it's not all surprising that at some point when they regain their freedom they do what's natural to them. The aren't bad or evil; they're highly evolved natural-born killers who don't like being imprisoned. When will zoos learn this lesson?"
This poll ran from December 27, 2007 to January 6, 2008.
Jennifer Kwan, from the Reuters story "Entertaining TV programs make you eat, study finds," published on June 3, 2007. Kwan wrote that "People eat more when they are glued to the television, and the more entertaining the program, the more they eat." Dr. Alan Hirsch, neurological director of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, aid that "It seems that distracted brains do not notice what the mouth is doing." Hirsch explored the impact of smell, taste and eating behaviors while watching TV by measuring potato chip consumption. Forty-five volunteers ate as many chips as they wanted during five-minute intervals over three-week periods while they watched monologues by late-night talk show hosts David Letterman and Jay Leno. Hirsch found people ate an average of 44 percent more chips while watching Letterman and 42 percent more while viewing Leno, than when they did not watch TV. According to Hirsch, "If you can concentrate on how the food tastes you'll eat less because you'll feel full faster." He said that "many studies have linked obesity to watching television and that link is likely due to inactivity." But he also believes that entertaining TV shows contribute to the problem. "If you want to lose weight, turn off the television or watch something boring," he added. This poll ran from December 17 to 26, 2007.
On Monday December 2, 2007, radio personality Don Imus returned to the radio airwaves. In April of 2007, CBS Radio fired Imus from his radio program following a week of uproar over his derogatory comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team. "There has been much discussion of the effect language like this has on our young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way in this society," CBS Corporation President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said in announcing the decision. Imus' new show on WABC in New York includes two black comedians, Tony Powell and Karith Foster, and he promised to open up a dialogue on race relations on the program. He began his initial broadcast on the Citadel Broadcasting station by confronting the issue that got him booted from CBS Radio last spring, when he referred to the NCAA runner-up squad as “nappy-headed hos.” He apologized again and said, “no one else will say anything else on my program that will make anyone think that I didn't deserve a second chance.” Imus also said, “the program is not going to change. Dick Cheney is still a war criminal, Hillary Clinton is still Satan and I'm back on the radio.” This poll ran from December 10 to 16, 2007.
Ben Stein, in the article "Lessons From the Pits of Travel and Investment" in the December 9, 2007 edition of The New York Times, wrote: "A famous Chinese philosopher famously said, "There is no calamity greater that lavish desires." My own life is a sort of parable of national life. I spend way too much money, although it's pennies by Wall Street standards. I think like a big baby: if I want it, it's mine." This poll ran from December 3 to 9, 2007.
President George W. Bush, speaking on November 11, 2007 at a Veterans Day ceremony at American Legion Post 121 in Waco, Texas, honoring American soldiers who have died in Iraq. Bush said "your loved ones served a cause that is good and just and noble. And as their commander in chief, I make you this promise: Their sacrifice will not be in vain." He added that "The enemies who attacked us six years ago want to strike our country again, and next time they hope to kill Americans on a scale that will make 9/11 pale in comparison." This poll ran from November 26 to December 2, 2007.
Peter McGraw, an associate professor of business at the University of Colorado. He was quoted in the article "Gift cards take a swipe at holiday shopping dollars" by Ryan Morgan in the November 25, 2007 edition of the Boulder Daily Camera. McGraw said "From an economic standpoint, the best gift is money because you know best how to maximize your utility. But there's a problem with that because giving money suggests that it isn't a thoughtful gift. Giving a gift card solves some of that problem." Morgan wrote that "Archstone Consulting, a Connecticut company, estimated that spending on gift cards could hit $35 billion this holiday season." This poll ran from November 19 to 25, 2007.
Paul McLeary from the story "VNR Redux" published at the Columbia Journalism Review web site on October 12, 2007. The subtitle of the story is "Anyone surprised that local TV keeps airing fake news?" MCLeary writes: "Seems our old friend, the Video News Release, is back—or more likely, never left us in the first place. The Center for Media and Democracy dug up three recent cases where a single television station passed VNRs as legit news reports. "In case you've forgotten, VNRs are television news spots prepared by corporations or public agencies, that are then presented as straight news by TV news outlets who conveniently fail to disclose the fact that these things are blatant PR. "VNRs were first dragged into public consciousness back in 2004, when CJR helped expose Karen Ryan — a PR flack paid by the government to anchor fake news stories promoting the Medicare law and its supposed benefits. The VNRs were sent out to local affiliates across the county on CNN’s video wire and played as “news” on stations that didn't inform viewers that they were watching government propaganda from the Department of Health and Human Services. The issue has popped up intermittently since then, but things have been quiet on the VNR front. Until now. "The Center for Media and Democracy reported yesterday that WGTU-TV 29 in Traverse City, Michigan has recently aired three of these corporate commercials. They include: "An entire, pre-packaged VNR funded by the financial company Capital One, without disclosure; an entire, pre-packaged VNR funded by the communications company Harris Corporation, without disclosure; and an entire, pre-packaged VNR funded by the farm equipment company John Deere. In this case, the original VNR contained brief, on-screen and verbal notifications of the sponsor. By playing the entire VNR, WGTU provided "passive disclosure" to its viewers." This poll ran from November 11 to 18, 2007.
Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, from his book "The Price of Liberty," a history of how America has paid for its wars since 1776. The book was published on May 1, 2007. Hormats writes: "In every major war we have fought in the 19th and 20th centuries, Americans have been asked to pay higher taxes — and nonessential programs have been cut — to support the military effort. Yet during this Iraq war, taxes have been lowered and domestic spending has climbed. In contrast to World War I, World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam, for most Americans this conflict has entailed no economic sacrifice. The only people really sacrificing for this war are the troops and their families." Hormats also quotes George Washington from his celebrated Farewell Address, in which he warned against "ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burdens we ourselves ought to bear." This poll ran from November 5 to 11, 2007.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking on October 30, 2007 at the Democratic presidential candidates debate in Philadelphia. Clinton was asked about a plan to grant driver's licenses to illegal immigrants in New York State. She at first defended the idea, then suggested she was against it, and when pressed for a direct answer by moderator Tim Russert, accused him of playing "gotcha." When asked if she supports the plan of Governor Eliot Spitzer in New York State, Clinton said "You know, Tim, this is where everybody plays gotcha. It makes a lot of sense. What is the governor supposed to do? He is dealing with a serious problem. We have failed, and George W. Bush has failed." This poll ran from October 29 to November 4, 2007.
From a report by the National Petroleum Council (NPC) released on July 18, 2007. The Council was charged by President George W. Bush and US Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman with studying the energy sector of the United States. The report urged that fuel economy be improved "at the maximum rate possible." According to the NPC web site, the purpose of the NPC is "solely to represent the views of the oil and natural gas industries in advising, informing, and making recommendations to the Secretary of Energy with respect to any matter relating to oil and natural gas." This poll ran from July 9 to 15, 2007.
Leslie Dach, Wal-Mart's executive vice president of corporate affairs, as quoted by Jeffrey Goldberg in the article "Selling Wal-Mart: Can the company co-opt liberals?" in the April 2, 2007 issue of The New Yorker magazine. Before joining Wal-Mart, Dach was an executive at Edelman Public Relations, and has been a senior advisor to the presidential campaigns of Democrats Michael Dukakis and Al Gore. He also worked for the National Audubon Society and the Environmental Defense Fund. According to the company, full-time hourly workers make an average of $10.51 an hour at Wal-Mart. However, the group Wake Up Wal-Mart believes that after part-time workers are factored in, the true average is less than $9.00 an hour. In contrast, Costco pays an average wage of $17.46 an hour. In 2006, Wal-Mart had revenues of over $315 billion, and profits of about $11 billion. Poll ArchiveSee the results of previous polls:
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