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...apparently misread the latest CBS News/New York Times poll, which you say indicates that 1 in 5 Americans identifies with the Tea Party movement. In the initial screening question, 34% of the respondents said they had heard or read "nothing" about the Tea Party movement. Of those who indicated they knew something about it (66%), including those who said "not much" (21%), just 18% considered themselves to be a "supporter of the Tea Party movement." That works out to a little less than 12% of the complete sample...
...once raged through the city are now confined mostly to the ballot box as Baqubah, along with the rest of Iraq, prepares for national parliamentary elections on March 7. Inside the fortified government headquarters, Diyala's governor, Abdul-Nasser al-Mahdawi, is relatively optimistic that the elections - the fifth poll since the U.S. brought democracy to Iraq - will go smoothly. "The country is getting better at elections," he tells TIME. "In the first, the fraud was about 40%. In the second, let's say 20%." Still, al-Mahdawi, who belongs to a Sunni party that opposes Prime Minister Nouri...
...giving a U.K. vote to people in far-flung countries may not yield a predictable result. When the Economist ran an online poll for people around the world to pick their preferred U.S. presidential candidate in 2008, Iraq was one of the few countries that favored McCain over Obama. In the U.K., there are no differences among the major parties on the country's Afghanistan policy - and certainly no big-name politicians calling for the 9,000 British troops to be pulled out. But that doesn't mean the U.K.'s newest voters won't have an opinion...
...this is not a likely scenario; the health care experience suggests that even preposterous attacks on complex legislation can provide cover for opponents, and Republicans are already starting to portray tougher financial rules as a new Wall Street bailout. But this is at least a plausible scenario; a Harris poll released yesterday found that 82% of Americans support reforms. (See "Republican Surprise: 10 More Scott Browns...
Thus far, Sestak has failed to meet expectations; he was 24 points down in the latest Quinnipiac University poll. But the same survey revealed that Specter has vulnerabilities. More than half of the Pennsylvanians surveyed said their senior Senator does not deserve another term; among Democrats who know the candidates well enough to have an opinion of both, Sestak led Specter 54% to 37%. "My challenge is name recognition," Sestak says. "That's the one challenge I have." If so, it is one Sestak may be able to surmount once he starts tapping a campaign war chest that has grown...