Poll: Obama’s Approval Holds Steady Amid Economic Optimism
May 21st, 2013A Washington Post-ABC News poll released Tuesday finds that President Barack Obama’s approval rating is holding steady, despite the Republican Party’s accusations of scandal gaining traction among voters. According to the survey, 51 percent approve of the way that Obama is handling his job as president, while 44 percent disapprove. These numbers are nearly unchanged from
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5 Signs That The GOP Learned Nothing From Losing In 2012
May 21st, 2013While Republicans are busy comparing everything President Obama does to Watergate, they’re not only showing their complete lack of historical knowledge, they’re also ignoring the remarkable decline of their party. In poll after poll, the percentage of adults who identify with the Republican Party continues to decline. (See the red line in the chart above.)
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Los Angeles Picks Mayor After Low-drama Campaign
May 21st, 2013LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles is about to elect its next mayor. Most residents probably won’t notice. A scant turnout is expected Tuesday when voters choose between two City Hall regulars who failed to bring much sparkle to the contest to succeed Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who exits office July 1 after two up-and-down terms.
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Senator Whitehouse Tells the GOP They Need To Reject The ‘Iron Curtain’ Of Climate-Change Denial
May 21st, 2013Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) rose to the floor of the Senate last week to give his weekly speech begging his colleagues to reject climate-change denial, and ended up giving an eerie warning to Republicans who refuse to accept the overwhelming evidence that suggests we’re reaching a tipping point when it comes to carbon pollution. Making
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Sound, Fury, And The IRS Mess
May 21st, 2013by Richard Tofel, ProPublica ProPublica’s job is to report the news rather than to make news ourselves, but sometimes we find an article of ours to be itself a subject of public debate. Last week was such a time, when two articles we had published back in December and January became the subject of significant
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