Public opinion continues to shift in favor of same-sex marriage, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll , which also finds initial signs that President Obama’s support for the idea may have changed a few minds. Read full article > >
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After President Obama’s announcement, opposition to same-sex marriage hits record low
The beauty of the current birth-control conversation for Democrats is that they not only have public opinion on their side but have cannily managed to make contraception a front-burner election-year campaign issue — by complaining that Republicans are making it front-burner election-year campaign issue. Read full article > >
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It’s Democrats who are putting focus on birth control
DAN SCHNUR Director of the University of Southern California’s Unruh Institute of Politics; communications director for John McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign. The difference between a movement and a large group of unhappy people is the ability to articulate specific policy goals. Those who held the earliest Tea Party rallies in 2009 had not yet developed legislative priorities to substantiate their slogans, but, over the course of several months, the congressional debate over deficit reduction and then the nation’s debt limit provided them the opportunity to directly influence policy in Washington. In an earlier era, the protesters who rallied public opinion against the Vietnam War underwent a similar evolution. Read full article > >
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What should Occupy Wall Street’s agenda be?
Okay, this is just crazy. As I’ve been noting here regularly, there’s a striking disconnect in public opinion: While disapproval of Obama is running strong on the economy, and while pessimism is running high that he’ll turn it around, solid majorities support the actual fiscal policies Obama has been championing. Read full article > >
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Republicans support jobs creation, too
Okay, this is just crazy. As I’ve been noting here regularly, there’s a striking disconnect in public opinion: While disapproval of Obama is running strong on the economy, and while pessimism is running high that he’ll turn it around, solid majorities support the actual fiscal policies Obama has been championing. Read full article > >
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Republicans support jobs creation, too
JERUSALEM — A deadly border incident this month that drew a threat by Egypt to recall its ambassador to Israel has starkly revealed the changed political terrain in the relationship between the two countries. Israeli officials who relied on former president Hosni Mubarak as a partner in upholding the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty are now contending with the newly assertive voice of public opinion in Egypt and its influence on that country’s leadership. There is a growing realization in Israel that maintaining ties with post-revolutionary Egypt no longer depends solely on cultivating the relationship with its leaders. Adopting stances that are more acceptable to ordinary Egyptians and the various political forces emerging in that country after Mubarak’s ouster has become important as well. Read full article > >
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Israel mulls ties with a changed Egypt
In a political climate of personalities, the Kremlin keeps up on public opinion with a check of what segments of the population are thinking.
Over the years, public opinion has been less than kind to Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee at the centre of the abdication crisis.
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On the first anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, despite months of spin both for and against, public opinion of the law has barely changed. It’s been about evenly split along partisan lines since around the summer of 2009. The bill’s passage and the subsequent year of fights over implementation have had barely any effect.
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The health care stalemate
In the court of public opinion at least, the nine Supreme Court justices have tended to be right over the last four years. And by and large, the Roberts Court’s decisions have fallen on the conservative side. According to a recent poll, a large…
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Court’s Shift Mirrors Public Opinion
Fewer than half of Americans oppose legalized same-sex marriage, according to a new poll released Wednesday, with significant shifts in public opinion since last year.
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Less than half are against same-sex marriage, poll finds
After President Obama’s announcement, opposition to same-sex marriage hits record low
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
