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...November is still a way off. Republicans are more chipper than they have been in months, with falling gas prices and an uptick in President Bush's approval ratings. In a Gallup poll of likely voters last week, 48% said they would vote Democratic for Congress--and 48% said they'd vote Republican. Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee, says the opposition hasn't sold a vision for handling terrorism, Iraq or jobs. He also cites a drop-off in turnout for most Democratic primaries this year as one sign that the Dems aren't strong enough...
...make progress in areas where they have performed weakly in previous years—and because schools remain on the federal watch list unless they make adequate progress for two consecutive years—that this year’s classifications for the Cambridge schools were lower despite the uptick in the number of schools making adequate yearly progress...
...economy afloat, while the proportional increase in the elderly population will severely strain social services. So politicians were as happy as new fathers last week when the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare reported that the number of Japanese births rose by 2.2% from January to June-the first uptick in six years...
While President Bush may be getting a slight uptick in his job-approval numbers, the situation in Iraq and Lebanon has been a setback in the war on terrorism, Americans say. According to a new TIME poll, 54% of those surveyed said the U.S. involvement in the war in Iraq has hurt America's standing in the war on terrorism, vs. 40% who feel it has helped. U.S. handling of the conflict between Hizbollah and Israel has caused harm as well, said 51%, vs. 29% who said it has had a positive effect. The Bush Administration does not have...
...remain. Balkenende's Christian Democrats and the vvd are now trying to cobble together a temporary minority government, Balkenende's third in four years, and hold elections in November. The Prime Minister is hoping his austerity program of the last three years will be rewarded with an economic uptick in the coming months, which could bring back voters who polls indicate have turned away from his party. If elections are anytime soon, the big winners may turn out to be the opposition social democrats, the party Hirsi Ali first joined and later abandoned - ironically, because she preferred...