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...Ironically, doing what he believed to be the right thing deprived Ford of much of the public trust he had enjoyed on assuming the presidency. His approval rating, according to the Gallup Poll, plummeted from 71% to 49%. And those who did not think of him as untrustworthy began to see him as a bumbler...
...than asking how many branches of government there are, we would ask why we have three branches of government," says Emilio Gonzalez, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. (Answer: checks and balances.) Good thing you don't have to take the test to keep your passport. According to Gallup, 83% of Americans can't name the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Can you? Here are 10 of the proposed new questions. You need to get six right to pass...
Move over Gallup Poll—Facebook.com is the new election oracle, accurately predicting the results of nine out of 12 races last week.But the Web site’s new “Election Pulse” also had a few “Dewey Defeats Truman” moments. For example, an independent candidate for Texas governor, Kinky Friedman, won 66.9 percent of the Facebook vote—but garnered just 13 percent at the polls. Facebook’s new “Pulse” feature allowed members to support candidates by visiting profiles and clicking...
...over the last two days, polls from the Washington Post/ABC News, the Pew Research Center and Gallup, all have shown a Democratic advantage on the so-called generic ballot - asking voters whether they will pick the Democratic or Republican congressional candidate in their district - narrowing. Democratic leads in key Senate races in Rhode Island and Montana have disappeared, leaving party strategists less optimistic about their chances of winning the Senate. Aside from expected seat pickups in Ohio and Pennsylvania, "everything else is questionable," said one party strategist working on Senate races, with races in Missouri, Montana, Rhode Island, Tennessee...
...quarantine, it is hoped, will prevent the mistakes of 2004. Though the bloggers never actually called the election for John Kerry, their eager discussions and analysis of early poll data did influence Washington journalists and pundits, according to Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of the Gallup Poll. "Whenever early exit polls leak out, they can wreak havoc on Washington's mind-set," says Newport...