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Weekend Political Poll Roundup and A Snicker
Never let your dog watch your food; never let the Congress watch your money - Barry Goldwater, Jr.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday-including the two days of post-debate polling-is unchanged. Barack Obama once again attracts 50% of the vote while John McCain earns 45%. This five-point advantage nearly matches Obama’s biggest lead yet and marks the first time he has held such a lead for three-days running. Rasmussen says Obama has 200 electoral votes and McCain 174. Colorado (9); New Mexico (5); New Hampshire (4); Nevada (5); Ohio (20) and Virginia (13) are now all in the toss-up column. Clearly those 56 votes are pivotal. 55 other electors lean toward Obama and 53 are leaning toward McCain.
Gallup did not publish findings on Sunday. Obama lead by 5% in its Saturday polling. According to ZOGBY Obama won Friday’s debate by the narrowest of margins 44% to 41% who say McCain won. Rasmussen found Obama won the debate by 36% to 34% and 31% were not sure. While 16% said it was a tie. Women felt Obama won and men felt McCain did. Before the debate people felt Obama would win by a 4 to 3 margin. Obama/Biden leads 47.1% to McCain/Palin 45.9% in the “who would you vote for?” question.
PBS television personality Jim Lehrer won the debate by unexpectedly being fair and balanced. 76% say Lehrer was neutral. Seven percent (7%) thought he tried to help Obama, 3% thought he tried to help McCain and 14% were not sure.
Today, Barack Obama told Joe Biden to be less like Sarah Palin: “Stop talking to the press!” - Leno
Thirty-three percent of Likely Voters now favor the Wall Street  ”bail out” plan while 32% are opposed and 35% are not sure. Just 49% understand that the government anticipates recovering a significant portion of the $700 billion when the assets purchased are resold. Those who understand that taxpayers will eventually get much of the money back support the bailout by a 2-to-1 margin. Narrow pluralities of both Obama supporters and McCain supporters favor the legislation and the reaction from liberals and conservatives are similarly mixed. Thirty-six percent (36%) of Investors support the plan while 31% are opposed.
In one of the most tumultuous weekend in college sports history nine of colleges top 25 football lost last weekend starting with Number 1 USC on Thursday night. Eleven won and five had a bye week.
American Physical Society opens AGW debate
There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for the global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution.
That statement from APS is a breath of fresh air. While they’re not changing their beliefs in AGW (anthropogenic global warming), they at least see the need for continued debate. They at least recognize the CO2 haters might not be right.
There’s not just a presence….there’s a “CONSIDERABLE” presence within the scientific community that do not agree. Mainstream Media, IPCC, Al Gore, NASA’s James Hansen have tried to make us believe there’s just a “fringe” of “non-believers” out there….the science is settled….ALL the reputable scientists are in our consensus….we’re all doomed….CO2 is a pollutant…
The APS newsletter contains two articles representing opposing views on AGW. Christopher Monckton authored one of the articles, and said it best:
Even if temperature had risen above natural variability, the recent solar Grand Maximum may have been chiefly responsible. Even if the sun were not chiefly to blame for the past half-century’s warming, the IPCC has not demonstrated that, since CO2 occupies only one-ten-thousandth part more of the atmosphere that it did in 1750, it has contributed more than a small fraction of the warming. Even if carbon dioxide were chiefly responsible for the warming that ceased in 1998 and may not resume until 2015, the distinctive, projected fingerprint of anthropogenic “greenhouse-gas” warming is entirely absent from the observed record. Even if the fingerprint were present, computer models are long proven to be inherently incapable of providing projections of the future state of the climate that are sound enough for policymaking. Even if per impossibilethe models could ever become reliable, the present paper demonstrates that it is not at all likely that the world will warm as much as the IPCC imagines. Even if the world were to warm that much, the overwhelming majority of the scientific, peer-reviewed literature does not predict that catastrophe would ensue. Even if catastrophe might ensue, even the most drastic proposals to mitigate future climate change by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide would make very little difference to the climate. Even if mitigation were likely to be effective, it would do more harm than good: already millions face starvation as the dash for biofuels takes agricultural land out of essential food production: a warning that taking precautions, “just in case”, can do untold harm unless there is a sound, scientific basis for them. Finally, even if mitigation might do more good than harm, adaptation as (and if) necessary would be far more cost-effective and less likely to be harmful.
New York Times Ignites Debate About Adoptions By Homosexuals.
American’s Say Homosexuals Should Have Right to Adopt Children by 3 to 2 Margin
Advocates for homosexual parenting are denouncing Sen. John McCain, an adoptive father himself, for opposing adoptions by homosexuals, which prompted his presidential campaign to clarify Tuesday that he does not seek a federal ban on the practice but personally opposes such adoptions.
Only one state, Florida, outlaws adoptions by homosexuals, which have become commonplace in much of the nation with an estimated sixty-five thousands children being adopted by homosexual couples. Activists in Arkansas are collecting signatures to ban adoption by homosexuals with a November ballot measure.
The immediate issue was ignited by a Sunday New York Times article where McCain is quoted as saying, “I think that we’ve proven that both parents are important in the success of a family so, no, I don’t believe in gay adoption.” McCain opponents immediately attacked claiming he was pandering to conservatives and Catholics who have traditionally opposed the practice.
Because the issue is relatively new there are no long term studies about the consequences on the children. adopted and raised by homosexual couples. Opponents, like the Tradition Values Coalition, of Anaheim, California claims, “…there is growing evidence that children in homosexual households face a multitude of serious and emotional dangers.” Opponent of homosexual adoption often rely on studies by Dr. George Rekers, professor of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of South Carolina School of medicine who says those children suffer an array of stresses and problems. Opponent also point to the generally accepted idea and studies that children raised in fatherless homes suffer.
National polls suggest that support for the concept of homosexual adoption is growing. A 2006 poll by the Pew Research Center found a near-even split on the issue; a 2007 poll by CNN and Opinion Research Corp. said 57 percent of respondents felt homosexuals should have the right to adopt, while 40 percent said they shouldn’t.