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...setting that course, Thatcher had overwhelming levels of public support. One British national public opinion poll showed 83% in favor of regaining the Falklands. Given the choice between force and diplomatic pressure to achieve that goal, 53% preferred the use force...
...pejorative that Republicans have used to criticize universal health care plans. “This term, ‘socialized medicine,’ implies that Democrats are against choice in health care, which is incorrect,” he said. Blendon added that according to the poll, most people, especially independent voters, do not actually have a negative view of the term, and it is not necessarily a minus for a candidate to have his or her plan derided as “socialized medicine.” According to the poll, which was conducted with Harris Interactive...
...more than half the seats so far counted, easily defeating the Musharraf-aligned PML-Q party. If the PPP and PML-N win two-thirds of parliamentary seats, they will be in a position to impeach Musharraf, who on Tuesday said he would accept the results of the landmark poll...
America has been through it all before. In the '20s another generation shaken by war, disillusioned with authority and fueled by easy affluence conducted its sexual revolution. The flapper symbolized a sharp break with prewar Victorian morals. In one poll of 2,200 women, taken during the '20s, more than half said they regularly masturbated. By the end of the decade, a prominent gynecologist said, "sexual experience in some form has been known by 100%" of his unmarried patients. The divorce rate soared, and according to one estimate, up to 1 million illegal abortions took place each year during...
...Merkel's political challenge now is to prevent the widespread anger over the tax evasion scandal from becoming a broader political crisis. In Germany, it's not necessarily enough to just throw a few corporate executives in jail and be done with it. A poll conducted earlier this month by Infratest Dimap found that 69% of Germans feel wealth in the country is unjustly distributed. And that sense could have political ramifications: polls show declining support for Germany's social market economic system. The Left has surpassed the Greens and the Free Democrats to become, with the allegiance...