With 2 weeks to go, this is very bad news: As if there weren’t enough concerns about the integrity of the vote, a non-partisan civic organization today claimed it had hacked into the voter database for the 1.35 million voters in the city of Chicago. Bob Wilson, an official with the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project […]
61%. That is the number of American adults who believe the Republican leadership has been covering for Foley. That is from the latest Rasmussen poll. Other interesting numbers include: 61% say they are following the Foley story somewhat or very closely. 47% will vote for a Democrat this fall as opposed to only 34% who […]
CBS has released their latest poll, which was conducted since the terror alert last week. There are some very interesting numbers in here. Bush’s approval rating is at 36%, which is the same number from last month. Even more interesting is his disapproval rating has jumped from 55% to 57%. While that is still in […]
Iran or the US. Which do you feel a bigger threat to the Middle East? That is the question asked on a recent poll conducted world wide and the answer may shock some: The world increasingly fears Iran’s suspected pursuit of a nuclear bomb but believes the U.S. military in Iraq remains a greater danger […]
While the right is out attacking Colbert, O’Reilly is facing his own problems. From MediaBistro: Young viewers just don’t watch The O’Reilly Factor like they used to. April marked Bill O’Reilly’s lowest-rated month in the 25-54 demographic since August 2001. His 415,000 demo viewers in March was a new low, but O’Reilly managed to lose […]
Imagine that – Bush and the GOP continue to sink. 36% approval for Bush 30% approval for Congress 40% approval for Bush’s foreign policy and the war on terror 35% approval for the handling of Iraq 69% believe the country is headed in the wrong direction 60% of Republicans polled disapprove of Congress The Republicans […]
E.J. Dionne Jr. has a very interesting piece in today’s Washington Post: It is now an ingrained journalistic habit: After a period of bad news for President Bush, media outlets invariably devote time and space to “balancing” stories that all say more or less: “Yes, the Republicans are in trouble, but the Democrats have no […]
Seems like that great housing bubble is even closer to its inevitable pop: Sales of new U.S. homes fell 5 percent in January to their slowest pace in a year while the number of homes on the market hit a record high, according to a government report on Monday that signaled further cooling in the […]
For all the good Bush says our economy is doing, it sure seems like we hear alot of bad news: Ford Motor Co., the nation’s second-largest automaker, said Monday that it will cut 25,000 to 30,000 jobs and idle 14 facilities by 2012 as part of a restructuring designed to reverse a $1.6 billion loss […]
Via Truthout White House Attacks the Messenger By Joseph Wilson / t r u t h o u t Statement by Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson The Bush White House and its right wing allies are responding to Cindy Sheehan and the military families’ vigil in Central Texas in the same way that they always respond […]