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...addition, the invocation of “faith” and “God” by political candidates is an everyday occurrence on the campaign trail, for reasons as much political as religious—a 2007 Gallup poll reports that less than half our nation would vote an atheist into the presidency. It is obvious that religion matters when the American public chooses its leaders...
...disappointed in Andrea’s vote in Get Out of Cambridge,” she said...
...young girls is facing his toughest re-election fight ever, and he doesn't even have an opponent yet. (CNBC pundit Larry Kudlow and former GOP Representative Rob Simmons have both expressed interest in running.) In a January Quinnipiac poll, 51% of Connecticut voters said they would not vote for Dodd in 2010. "It's the subject matter - people are watching their tax dollars go into institutions and they wonder when it's going to get better and they wonder where it's going," Dodd says. "I don't find people trying to elbow me out of the way trying...
...allow reporters to deeply examine the "hundreds of pages" of mortgage documents, saying, "No one has ever showed as much as we have." But the scandal has left a bad taste with Connecticut voters; in the Quinnipiac poll, 56% said the Countrywide connection made them less likely to vote for Dodd...
...investment-banking community claimed that Dodd's provisions could have the perverse incentive of causing firms that really need help to refuse it. "I was sort of surprised by the blowback on it when nobody offered a counter idea," Dodd says, noting that his amendment passed by a voice vote, with no opposition. As evidence of how much distrust there is of Dodd these days, some commentators reacted to the provisions by claiming the Senator was just doing the bidding of his hedge-fund constituents in Connecticut by making it easier for them to woo talent from their more heavily...