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CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 800 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on Oct. 11-12 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error is plus or minus 3.5% Not Sures omitted...
...thanks is oddly grudging. A TIME/CNN poll last week revealed that 53% of Americans said the Clinton Administration deserved credit for "recent improvements in the economy." But the President's overall popularity remained low: 44% of Americans said they approved of Clinton's handling of his job, while 47% disapproved, just a four-point improvement from six weeks...
...even putting a contract out on him . . . I would be for it." Only Ross Perot is as publicly bold today, but the words "unfinished business" are on almost everyone's lips. From the soldier in the desert to the folks at home, most Americans (72% in the latest TIME/CNN poll) favor using military force to remove Saddam Hussein. The White House too seems on board. If it comes to war, says chief of staff Leon Panetta elliptically, "I can tell you one thing: we're not going to repeat the mistakes of the past...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 800 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on Sept. 21-22 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error is plus or minus 3.5% Not Sures omitted...
Meanwhile, the public mood seems confused and contradictory. Among 800 people questioned last week in a TIME/CNN poll by Yankelovich Partners, 38% described the economy in general as either growing moderately or booming, versus only 9% who thought it was in recession. But in response to the question "Do you think the recession has ended in the area where you live?," 54% said it had not; only 40% thought it had. An even stranger contradiction: 81% thought their own family's finances were doing either fairly well (69%) or very well (12%). Yet when asked "Do you personally feel better...