Word: polle
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...According to a poll published in The New York Times, Americans believe in Barack Obama's ability to change the course of the economy, health care, and the war in Iraq, but they understand that it may take at least two years to see some results. In terms of the length of the recession it is a capitulation of sorts, an admission that the financial straights in which the economy finds itself has no ready solution. (See pictures of the world reacting to Obama...
...viewpoints from the U.S. poll and the U.K. economists are two sides of one coin. People need to brace themselves for a long and painful period, and to some extent that process has begun...
...campaign is that, of Obama, Clinton and McCain, only Obama ever gave an announcement speech to explain why he was running. That tells you more about why Obama won - and why the other two could never get on message - than any delegate count, campaign finance figure or exit poll number...
...Since we had someone in the humanities/arts field last year–J.K. Rowling–it’d be good to have a governmental or political figure this time. Plus, I voted for Obama on the senior poll that was asking us our recommendations for Commencement Day speaker...
...Bush the worst president in history—a number that undoubtedly would be higher if James Buchanan had mastered that whole leave-the-country-in-one-piece-when-you-exit-office thing. Furthermore, the populace outside the Ivory Tower seems to agree. Last December, a USA-Today Gallup poll indicated that 67 percent of Americans disapprove of Bush’s job as President, and a NBC-Wall Street Journal poll reported that a mere 18 percent of Americans will miss him when he leaves office...