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If you’re tired of watching the stock market plunge, how about some poll numbers? Pollster.com debuted a suite of sweet charting tools today, just in time for your faith in democracy to crumble! Yay!
You can play with a number of factors, including choosing to exclude certain kinds of polls (internet, automated) or to make the trend lines more and less sensitive. Fun for literally dozens of people. (I am one of them.)
Mitt Romney lashed President Obama’s economic stewardship in an interview with TIME’s Mark Halperin on Wednesday, deflecting attacks on his years as a private equity executive and laying out how he hopes to take control of the economy as soon as he’s sworn in, should he defeat Obama in November.
This week’s TIME cover story, “The Mother of the Mitt Campaign,” tells the tale of how Lenore Romney’s 1970 run for U.S. Senate may have made a bigger impression on the Republican presidential candidate than his years spent as the son of a governor. Mitt’s father lost his own presidential bid, but it was the lessons from his mother’s loss that are more instructive as Romney enters the campaign stretch.
