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...that's not exactly the same as the White House's charge that Fox is essentially a political operation. But it suggests that those "fair and balanced" ads don't fool the people actually watching the stuff. Fox isn't alone, though: the survey showed that far more viewers saw ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and NBC as liberal than saw them as conservative. (See pictures of NBC's Tom Brokaw...
...towards the President and his policies, and the results are not encouraging for Obama: McDonnell, 55, entered election day with a double-digit lead. McDonnell, who campaigned on a platform of job creation and low taxes, may have even greater things ahead: The Virginian-Pilot newspaper has gone as far as to put him on a short list of vice presidential candidates for 2012. (See pictures of the world's reaction to Obama's presidential victory...
...August 2009, The Washington Post unearthed a graduate thesis he wrote in 1989 while at Regent University that showed the younger McDonnell as far more conservative on social issues than his campaign positions indicated. The 93-page thesis, titled The Republican Party's Vision for the Family: The Compelling Issue of the Decade includes a section in which he describes feminists and working women as "detrimental" to family values, and recommending that government policy favor married couples over "cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators." McDonnell defended his paper, saying the work wasn't reflective of his views today. (Watch TIME's video...
...actually bothered to cast a ballot. In New Jersey, 60% said the President was not a factor in their decisions; among those who said he was, nearly as many were there to show their support (19%) as their opposition (20%) to Obama. In Virginia, the results were similar. Weighing far more heavily were concerns about the economy. (Read "What's Still Wrong with Wall Street...
...bode well for Obama's health care bill, especially after Senate majority leader Harry Reid signaled Tuesday that Congress is unlikely to deliver a bill to Obama's desk this year. That means the contentious debate will stretch into 2010 - an election year when there will be far more political careers at stake...