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...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...
...British economists and the results of the American poll are both right. Fast action was as critical to saving the economy as the nature of the action. Patience will be necessary because the downturn is almost certainly going to be remarkably long and hard...
...solutions remains to be seen. While there's little more it can do to boost domestic banks' lending, the government is still "doing everything on an ad hoc basis," reckons Simon Maughan, banking analyst at MF Global in London. "There is a serious risk that if Gordon Brown's poll rating falls, then he'll do something else, but it won't necessarily be constructive. We're going to have a recession, and at some point, you've just got to suck...
...Cheney is also one of the least popular Vice Presidents ever. A New York Times/CBS News poll gave Bush a final 22% favorability rating, which was nearly twice that of his Vice President, whose approval rating stood at an anemic...
Earning the military's trust is an obligation that comes when assuming command in the middle of two wars (a nonscientific poll before the election by the independent Army Times newspaper showed GOP nominee John McCain getting three military votes for every one for Obama). But it's also an acknowledgment that while the military's enthusiasm for a new President won't win either wars or votes, a rocky relationship between the President and the military forces under his command can undermine his presidency...