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Percentage of parents who discuss safe driving when their children are 12 or younger, vs. 77% who discuss smoking, according to an Allstate Foundation poll...
...August, the dark horse had enough support to generate 2,587 votes at the Ames straw poll, a fund-raising fandango for the Iowa GOP at which candidates pay to have their supporters attend. Huckabee finished a distant second behind free-spending Romney, while Giuliani and McCain skipped the event entirely. But veteran pols noted that Huckabee's tally exceeded the number of tickets he bought--speculating that people were taking Romney's freebies but casting their ballots for Huckabee...
...pointedly refused to play the outsider. "Twenty-five years ago, when mostly young gay men began dying, we certainly did not talk about it in church," Clinton told the crowd. "We've come a long way." She still has a way to go. In a recent Pew poll, the lifelong Methodist was seen as the least religious candidate...
...line between prophets and lunatics is a thin one, and in the world of college women’s hockey, it narrows more and more with each passing week.When the USCHO.com/CSTV Division I poll came out on Oct. 22, Harvard had not even played its first game of the season. Yet some voter, somewhere, had the then-No. 6 Crimson placed all the way at the top of his or her list.Those of us at this newspaper who follow the women’s hockey team rolled eyes, laughed, and even sneered at this dim-witted voter. Surely, this...
...trying to keep hope alive. "It's amazing he's come so far," says Carter Wamp of Huckabee's dramatic rise in Iowa from back-of-the-pack to Republican caucus front-runner alongside Mitt Romney. "No one expects anything from us," says Raena Davis, acknowledging Biden's low poll numbers. But as befits someone willing to devote herself nonstop to such a cause, she is predicting a surprise strong showing for her man, saying, "I'm more than optimistic. I'm absolutely confident...