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...Republicans gain a House seat, the Democrats drop one. Of course, there’s a place for politics, and its well and good to devote time and thought to it, but at some point we have to take a break from red and blue maps, from tables of poll numbers, from endorsement speeches, and from the scandal du jour...
...into the debate, the burden had been on Clinton to change a dynamic that has turned against her, as Barack Obama has racked up 11 victories in a row in the two weeks since Super Tuesday, grabbing the lead in pledged delegates, and momentum. An ABC News-Washington Post poll released shortly before the debate showed Clinton in a statistical dead heat against Obama in Texas, and hanging onto only a slender lead in Ohio. Her own husband had conceded a day earlier that both states are crucial to her survival. "You probably like it that it has come down...
...Since you stated that candidate Ron Paul's advocates are probably the most zealous, I was shocked that he was absent from the poll results sprinkled throughout the article. As a tuned-in 60-year-old, I am aware of the Internet buzz about his candidacy. You focused on the popularity contest rather than on interesting if not mainstream ideas - something this country needs more of. John Kelsh, Seattle...
...common interests with the U.S. "That party, I mean more so than any other political party in Pakistan right now, feels acutely the threat from foreign extremists and terrorism having had their party leader recently assassinated," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters the day after Pakistan's poll...
...Obama presidency seemed surreal and unlikely to the Islamic delegates, a McCain presidency was the more realistic expectation. And so the most startling bit of news at the conference was a poll about, of all things, U.S. public attitudes, presented by Steven Kull of WorldPublicOpinion.org. The war in Iraq was unpopular, of course, and 63% of respondents also believed that Bush's peremptory militarism had made America less secure; 75% wanted to work to improve relations with Iran through diplomacy rather than threats. If those attitudes hold, McCain's rude bellicosity faces an uphill climb. It is likely, of course...