Posts Tagged: Polling

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25
Aug 09

Daily Links for August 24th through August 25th

All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).
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21
Aug 09

Why do politicians only speak the truth when they’re pimping a book?

Tom Ridge finally states the obvious – the Bush White House monkeyed with Terror Alerts to boost the President’s Approval Ratings:

Among the headlines promoted by publisher Thomas Dunne Books: Ridge was never invited to sit in on National Security Council meetings; was “blindsided” by the FBI in morning Oval Office meetings because the agency withheld critical information from him; found his urgings to block Michael Brown from being named head of the emergency agency blamed for the Hurricane Katrina disaster ignored; and was pushed to raise the security alert on the eve of President Bush’s re-election, something he saw as politically motivated and worth resigning over.  Read more...

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23
Apr 09

Daily Links for April 22nd through April 23rd

  • Lifehacker – Food.com Searches Pretty Much Every Recipe Site at Once – Recipes – Not only does it pull basic recipe links and descriptions from all those third-party sites, but it grabs the full ingredient lists, pictures, user ratings, and preparation/serving instructions, then categorizes them for search refining. So if you're looking for a Vietnamese dish to whip up tonight, but you don't want anything deep-fried, and you'd like the main ingredient to be chicken, Food.com can help you get there.
  • Stinky blogging stats – From my perspective as someone who does make a living blogging, Penn's numbers, especially this 100,000 uniques –> $75K business, are misleading at best and a complete fucking lie at worst.
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12
Mar 09

Daily Links for March 11th through March 12th

  • Pew Research Center: Candidate to President – America's impression of Barack Obama has changed substantially from his time on the campaign trail last fall to his current position in the Oval Office. When asked what one word best described candidate Obama in September 2008, the most-common response was "inexperienced." When asked for their impression of President Obama in February 2009, more Americans used words such as intelligent (the most frequently used one-word descriptor), honest, confident and smart, and fewer used words like inexperienced, young, new and change.
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Feb 09

Daily Links for February 24th

  • “The Stupid Party”—By Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine) – My theory is that the American public would be happy with an opposition party that plays a constructive role in governance by forcing the exploration of the government’s proposals and putting forward its own alternatives. Our experience as a democracy is that such a process of lively public debate helps us move to correct answers. But the Republicans are not behaving as a responsible opposition party. Their behavior reminds us of John Stuart Mill’s label for the unconstructive Tories: he called them the “stupid party.”
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Feb 09

Daily Links for February 4th

  • Real Time Economics : Unemployment Rate by Metro Area – The following chart presents the December 2008 unemployment rates in 369 major metropolitan areas, as well as the change from 2007. The chart can be sorted by any of the lead columns. Some areas are aggregated across state lines. Source: Labor Department
  • Rush Limbaugh Loses a Popularity Contest – The Daily Beast – An October 24, 2008, poll conducted by the Democratic research firm Greenberg-Quinlan-Rosner has Rush Limbaugh enjoying a public approval rating of just 21 percent among likely voters, while 58 percent have “cold” feelings towards the right-wing radio talk show host. Limbaugh was the least popular of the all the political figures the firm polled. He polls seven points lower than Rev. Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright and eight points below former Weather Underground domestic terrorist William Ayers.
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2
Feb 09

Daily Links for February 1st

  • Extend Google Talk Into A Remote Access Tool With GBridge | MakeUseOf.com – GBridge uses what they call a ‘Revolutionary VPN Infrastructure’ to extend Google’s GTalk into a secure collaboration tool. Once the product is installed (Windows Only), it simply asks for your Google Talk account and automatically displays the rest of your GTalk friends that may or may not have the product installed. If they do have it installed, you may collaborate with them, using each of the tools I am going to describe below. This is all done with a simple install, and no firewall configuration.
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31
Oct 08

Daily Links for October 30th

News / Politicking — No Comments
23
Oct 08

AP in the tank for McCain? [Update]

Here’s the headline for the article:

AP presidential poll: Race tightens in final weeks

Followed by the ‘lede’ and following paragraph:

The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch.

The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as GOP-leaning voters drifted home to their party and McCain’s “Joe the plumber” analogy struck a chord.  Read more...

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27
Sep 08

Daily Links for September 26th

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