Wednesday Open Thread [3.14.12]
Shockingly, there are no new primary or general election polls to parse today. To feed the polling addition, here some new Presidential approval polls, which tend to show the CBS poll was an outlier.
For the first time since early July, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds more Americans approve of the job President Obama is doing than disapprove, 50% to 48%. A new Bloomberg poll and a new PPP poll both show Obama’s approval at 48%.
Also check out this op-ed in the New York Times:
TODAY is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its people and its identity. And I can honestly say that the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it.
Jim Romenesko’s blog catches a tweet from WJLA in DC that shows the downside to the rush to break news first.
He also has one of the best headlines to come out of yesterday’s neo-confederate win by Santorum.
That headline is great. If Mitt can’t put Santorum away (a guy with so little campaign infra-structure that he could not even get on the ballot in Virginia) why do his backers continue to think that he can compete with Obama?
The whole GOP train-wreck is hilarious. If we had a decent Democratic Party, the GOP would have five Senate seats and 20 house seats after this election.
The latest battle front on the war against women: Violence Against Women Act
The GOP is now trying to kill this once widely supported bipartisan act. Women will suffer (literally) if they succeed.
What will it take for the women of America to rise up and drive these white elephants to oblivion?
This looks like more evidence that the GOP is in the grip of a kind of contrarianist hysteria. President Obama should come out strongly against blowing up the moon.