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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (55009)	8/9/2011 3:26:16 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 103300

Polls: Voters Really Dislike Congress; Obama Not Doing So Hot Either Categories: Congress, poll by Frank James npr.org There could be another extreme makeover ahead of Congress if the current voter mood lasts until the 2012 general election. Different polls by credible organizations indicate that voters appear ready to wash their hands of the current Congress which could result in shifts in control of both the House and Senate. Which, if that happened, would still mean a divided and perhaps dysfunctional government since it could still leave different parties controlling each chamber. A CNN/ORC poll released Tuesday found for the first time in the history of th poll that more respondents than not said their own House member should be replaced: Only 41 percent of people questioned say the lawmaker in their district in the U.S. House of Representatives deserves to be re-elected - the first time ever in CNN polling that that figure has dropped below 50 percent. Forty-nine percent say their representative doesn't deserve to be re-elected in 2012. And with ten percent unsure, it's the first time that a majority has indicated that they would boot their representative out of office if they had the chance today. Members of Congress might prefer to view another poll, a USA Today/Gallup poll, as providing a truer picture. In that poll, 56 percent said their own member of Congress deserved to be re-elected. But when asked whether other lawmakers should be, just 24 percent said yes. Susan Page of USA Today wrote that the findings suggest that there could even be another wave election in 2012 as was just experienced in 2010 because of the overall unhappiness with Congress. The results of the CNN/ORC poll argue even more strongly than the USA Today/Gallup poll for a wave election that could lead to changes in the control of Congress. The news was only slightly better for President Obama. In the CNN/ORC poll, 44 percent of those surveyed approved of the job he was doing as president. In the most comparable finding in the USA Today/Gallup poll, 47 percent said the president deserved re-election.

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (55009)	8/9/2011 5:46:24 PM
From: Gersh Avery	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

There has been an uptick in favor of full legalization. Not just medical: Angus Reid Poll Finds Majority of Americans Support Marijuana Legalization By: Jon Walker Tuesday August 9, 2011 7:51 am A majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana according to a new poll from the respected Canadian pollster Angus Reid Public Opinion. The poll found that 55 percent of Americans adults support legalizing marijuana with 40 percent opposed. Both Democrats (63%-33%) and Independents (61%-34%) were found to be strongly supportive of marijuana legalization, while Republicans (41%-56%) as a group remain opposed to the change. There has been a modest increase in support for legalizing marijuana compared to 2009, when they last polled the American people about the issue. Angus Reid’s December 2009 poll found 53 percent of Americans in support of legalization with 43 percent opposed. Angus Reid found significantly higher levels of support of marijuana legalization than the polling company Gallup. When Gallup last polled on the issue in late 2010 it found only 46 percent in support of legalizing marijuana with 50 percent opposed. Although the two polling firms found very different levels of overall support, according polling from both companies support for marijuana legalization has been increasing noticeably over the past few years.