Word: polle
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...home stretch for enrolling seniors in Medicare's new drug benefit, which President Bush hopes will eventually give him a lift in his sagging poll numbers. So it's no surprise that the President and other top Administration officials have hit the road this week, pitching hard to convince more of the elderly to sign up before the Monday deadline and insisting that they are past the program's initially ragged start...
...slim majority of Americans seem to think so: according to a 2002 Public Agenda poll, 57% of parents acknowledge spanking their kids. Psychologists and other academics are similarly divided, with each camp accusing the other of twisting data to suit an agenda. Opponents say corporal punishment can lead to aggression, poor mental health, even sadomasochistic tendencies and criminal behavior. Sally Moon, 42, a stay-at-home mother in Portland, Maine, agrees. Even when her daughter Teagan, 2, bites, Moon puts her in time-out and reasons with her. Says Moon: "I strongly believe children shouldn...
...that American civil liberties were respected that some credit Hayden with helping the White House turn the disclosure of the controversial program into a political plus. The question is whether it will play well enough the second time around for President Bush that it again helps his historically low poll numbers...
...episode comes at a particularly inopportune moment for Democrats, who currently seem poised to make substantial gains in this fall's elections - if not take back control of the House and Senate. A new AP/Ipsos poll out Friday shows only a quarter of Americans approving of the job Congress is doing and fully 51 percent of Americans saying they hope Democrats control Congress this fall, versus only 34 percent who want Republicans to retain power. But most notably, the poll showed the collapse of conservative support for Bush and the lack of enthusiasm conservatives have for this November's congressional...
...problem is that Abbas, and his party, Fatah, may fare even more poorly in an election called under such circumstances than they did in the January poll that brought Hamas to power. And if Hamas is returned for a second time, the stalemate would simply deepen. The alternative might be to back Abbas seizing control over all the levers of government without new elections. But that would not only make a mockery of the Bush administration's stated commitment to democracy in the Arab world; it would likely set off a Palestinian civil war that would have negative implications...