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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Republicans and other critics of health care overhaul have seized on poll numbers reflecting public opposition and unease to accuse President Obama and congressional Democratic leaders of trying to ram through a measure that Americans don't want. But but these snapshots of public opinion aren't necessarily good indicators of how voters will feel later about the legislation and what impact it will have on next year's midterm elections, opinion experts say. ...
Whether or not Tuesday's voting turns out to be a referendum on President Obama, people are already making it clear how they feel about his job performance one year after his election. Obama has a 54 percent approval rating in a new CNN poll, nearly matching the 53 percent of the vote he got last November. What's changed in a year is that he's gained popularity among liberals and lost it among conservatives. And while the president remains above 50 percent in overall approval, most of the Americans CNN surveyed don't like the way he's dealt with such key issues as unemployment, health care ...
Sarah Palin and Levi Johnston, the father of her grandchild, are taking shots at each other just as speculation about her presidential aspirations is on the rise. After CBS' "Early Show" ran the first of a two-part interview with Johnston on Wednesday, Palin issued a statement scolding the network for giving him "a forum to propagate lies" and denying his claim that she often called her youngest son Trig -- who has Down syndrome -- her "retarded baby." Bill Roth, Anchorage Daily News / MCT Despite the dirt being dished by Levi Johnston and a survey that shows most Americans think she's ...
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