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February 23, 2010

Yoo Case About Politics, not Ethics By Debra J. Saunders

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced what amounts to the end of its investigation of former Bush administration lawyers Jay Bybee and John Yoo for writing the 2002 memos that authorized the CIA to use enhanced interrogation techniques. While assailing Bybee and Yoo's "poor judgment," Assistant Deputy Attorney General David Margolis rejected the "final report" written by the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility. It found that Bybee and Yoo had engaged in "professional misconduct."

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February 23, 2010

41% Favor Obama’s Health Care Plan, 56% Oppose

Voters still strongly oppose the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats and think Congress should focus instead on smaller bills that address problems individually rather than a comprehensive plan.

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February 22, 2010

Iowa Senate: Grassley Still Outdistances Democratic Challengers

Incumbent Republican Charles Grassley still holds sizable double-digit leads over his three chief Democratic challengers in the U.S. Senate race in Iowa.

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February 22, 2010

74% Say Tiger Woods Likely To Play Again This Year

Most Americans expect Tiger Woods to be playing professional golf again this year, although they still have mixed feelings abut the sincerity of his apology.

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February 22, 2010

76% Say Fed Is Likely To Raise Other Interest Rates This Year

The Federal Reserve Board’s decision last week to raise the interest rate it charges banks for short-term loans has most Americans now expecting other rate increases this year.

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February 22, 2010

Georgia Governor: Top GOP Contenders Slightly Ahead of Democrats’ Barnes

Three-out-of-the-four top Republican candidates are now slightly ahead of the Democrat one of them is most likely to face in this year’s race for governor in Georgia.

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February 22, 2010

Iowa Governor: Culver Trails in Re-election Bid

The latest Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 telephone survey of the Iowa governor’s race shows incumbent Democrat Chet Culver trailing badly in a match-up with one of his Republican predecessors and also running behind a lesser-known GOP challenger.

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February 22, 2010

Florida GOP Senate: Rubio 54%, Crist 36%

Former state House Speaker Marco Rubio continues to lengthen his lead over Governor Charlie Crist in the contest for Florida’s Republican Senate nomination.

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February 22, 2010

Obama Lacks One Crucial Ingredient -- Intuition By Michael Barone

No president enters office knowing everything he needs to know. His experience is limited to some greater or lesser extent; his knowledge of the people from whom he will choose appointees is incomplete; his mastery of the substance of public policy, after years on the campaign trail, is likely to be out of date. And like all of us, he does not know what the future will bring.

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February 21, 2010

47% Believe U.S. Can Win in Afghanistan

Voters are slightly less optimistic about winning the war in Afghanistan despite a highly publicized, thus far successful U.S. offensive against Taliban forces now taking place there.

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February 20, 2010

51% Think Business Leaders Make Better Economic Decisions Than Government Officials

Most Americans continue to have more confidence in the economic decisions of the business community than in those of government.

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February 20, 2010

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending February 19, 2010

Fix it or throw it out. Americans seem to be in that kind of mood these days.

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February 20, 2010

Tea Party Power to Solve the Debt Problem By Lawrence Kudlow

The New York Times ran a front-page story this week called "Party Gridlock in Washington Feeds New Fear of a Debt Crisis." As usual, they got it wrong. Instead, the headline should have read, "After Scott Brown's Astonishing Senate Win in Massachusetts, New Political Gridlock in Washington Could Spell the End of the Liberal Crack-Up We Have Witnessed over the Past Year."

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February 19, 2010

To Tax and Who To Tax: Voters Are Evenly Divided

Voters are now evenly divided as to which candidate they would prefer to vote for: A candidate who opposes all tax increases or one who promises to increase taxes only on the rich. But most still believe tax hikes hurt the economy.

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February 19, 2010

43% Expect Change If GOP Takes Over Congress, 32% Don’t

Given increasing voter unhappiness with Congress, many analysts suggest Republicans may win control of at least the House in this November’s elections, but voters have mixed feelings about how big a change that might really be.

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February 19, 2010

73% Agree That Washington Is “Broken”

Seventy-three percent (73%) of U.S. voters agree with Vice President Joseph Biden that “Washington right now is broken.”

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February 19, 2010

What Went Wrong? By Susan Estrich

Something has gone very wrong.

Was it just a year ago that Democrats assumed more control in Washington than the party has had in my lifetime? It was.

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February 19, 2010

“Missing Bush?” Why Republican Revisionism Won’t Sell By Howard Rich

As America loudly repudiates the leftist agenda of President Barack Obama and his Congressional allies, a group of partisan GOP opportunists is busy promoting a theory of “Republican revisionism.”

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February 19, 2010

49% Favor Building New Nuclear Plants

President Obama this week announced an $8.3-billion government loan guarantee to build the first new nuclear plant in this country in over a quarter of a century.

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February 19, 2010

GOP Will Gain Significantly, But Probably Remain in House Minority By Isaac T. Wood

The last two U.S. House of Representatives elections have been Democratic landslides that have left them with a 79-seat majority. In 2006, Democrats picked up 29 seats on election night (exactly as the Crystal Ball predicted, by the way) and didn’t lose a single seat of their own, even adding another pick-up in a December runoff. The winning streak continued in 2008, with Democrats netting 21 new seats in what was a Blue year across the board.

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