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Poll Shows Big Partisan Divides on Obama's Handling of Key Issues
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyA Gallup study released last week reported that President Obama was a far more polarizing force during his second year in office compared to any chief executive at that point in their terms since 1953 (the poll measured the gap between the approval ratings he got from Democrats and Republicans). Now, a new Gallup poll puts some flesh on the bones of that overall finding by showing the partisan gaps that exist on Obama's handling of specific issues. Health care was the most polarizing issue, with a 61-point gap between Democrats who approved of Obama's performance and Republicans who didn't, ...
Democrats and Republicans: Quit That Cryin' or I'll Give You Somethin' to Cry About
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Opinion: Common Ground Can Be Found
By not in system - AOL News(Sept. 16) -- Tuesday night, Delaware, New Hampshire and New York joined Nevada, Colorado, Florida and Kentucky in the ranks of states where establishment Republican candidates have fallen to GOP outsiders in this year's primaries -- evidence, some pundits suggest, that voters are likely in store for more, not less, partisan politics inside the Beltway next year. If true, America's current trend flies in the face of the philosophy espoused by Irish statesman and political theorist Edmund Burke more than 200 years ago: "All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, ...
Poll: Abortion Support Slips Since Obama's Election
By David Gibson - Politics DailyAmericans have become markedly less supportive of legal abortion since President Obama's election, with the country now almost evenly split on the contentious issue. Whereas in 2007 and 2008, abortion-rights supporters outnumbered opponents by a 54-to-40 percent margin, today the margin is a slim 47-45 percent in favor of keeping abortion legal in most or all cases. At the same time views in both camps appear to be hardening -- a trend that runs counter to Obama's longstanding desire to find common ground on the issue. The shift is not too surprising given the election of a pro-choice ...
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