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Time’s latest poll has good news for Mitt Romney, and that’s pretty much it (he’s cut in half the people who have haven’t heard of him!). There’s less good but certainly not bad news for Obama and Edwards, who have both narrowed Hillary’s lead. Interestingly, Obama is the only Dem with a lead in general election match-ups, and he ties with Rudy for voters who say they will definitely or “probably” support him.
Full write up here.
Standard disclaimer: It’s over a year away, people.
Candidates often say things when polling in the single digits that come back to haunt them when they start leading the polls. Last October, Rick Santorum gave an interview with an Evangelical blog called Caffeinated Thoughts, in which he said contraception is “not okay,” and that this would be a public policy issue he would tackle as President. In particular, he said he would “get rid of any idea that you have to have abortion coverage or contraceptive coverage” as a government policy. Start watching the following video at 17:55.
There’s nothing “wrong” with protests built around placard-hoisting and park-squatting, but Occupy the SEC is definitely doing something right with its radically different tack. The OWS-offshoot has submitted a 325-page letter to federal financial regulatory agencies on the Volcker Rule, a controversial measure designed to prohibit banks from proprietary trading, or making investments with their own dollars rather than their customers’, that was passed as part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
