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March 13, 2010

Yellen Is Spellin' Future Inflation By Lawrence Kudlow

The new Obama Fed is going to be very dovish when it comes to fighting future inflation and defending the value of the dollar.

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March 12, 2010

56% Say Their Employer Typically Promotes From Within

Fifty-six percent (56%) of American workers say their employer typically looks to promote an existing employee for an open position before considering other candidates.

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March 12, 2010

38% in Minnesota for Pawlenty If He Runs for President

Minnesota voters have mixed feelings about Governor Tim Pawlenty these days, and just 38% say they’d vote him if he wins the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. That’s down four points from November.

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March 12, 2010

64% Say Spring Puts Them in a Better Mood

Spring is almost here, and 64% of Americans say the arrival of the new season will put them in a better mood.

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March 12, 2010

Negatives for Pelosi, Reid, Boehner Hit Record Highs

Congress' top leaders are feeling the heat from voters this month, as a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows three of the four reaching or matching their highest unfavorable ratings of the past year.

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March 12, 2010

Coming Between You and Your Doctor By Froma Harrop

The lights must dim around Google's data-storage centers every time someone does a search for "government bureaucrat coming between you and your doctor." Foes of the Democrats' health-reform proposals have been chanting this on the hour for a year -- with a surge after Democrats put money for "comparative effectiveness research" in the stimulus bill.

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March 12, 2010

Louisiana Senate: Vitter 57%, Melancon 34%

A brief brush with scandal hasn’t hurt incumbent Republican Senator David Vitter’s bid for reelection in Louisiana so far. He remains more than 20 points ahead of his Democratic challenger, Congressman Charlie Melancon.

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March 12, 2010

Real Genius By Susan Estrich

A year ago, David Axelrod, the president's senior adviser, was a genius. A year ago, Rahm Emanuel, the president's chief of staff, was a wizard.

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March 11, 2010

Minnesota Governor: Anything Goes At This Point

The only thing it’s safe to say about this year’s governor’s race in Minnesota is that both parties will pick their candidates in primaries on August 10. Other than that, the race is a free-for-all.

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March 11, 2010

Dems Are Stuck With a Mess of Their Own Making By Michael Barone

There's a lively debate going on in the blogosphere and the press about whether Democrats would be better off passing or not passing a health care bill.

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March 11, 2010

Only 15% Think War in Iraq Is Over

Obama administration and U.S. military officials insist that Iraq’s recent elections were a success and that the plan for removing all troops from the country by the end of next year is on schedule. But most U.S. voters remain skeptical about the situation in Iraq.

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March 11, 2010

New Hampshire Governor: Lynch Still Running Strongly

New Hampshire Governor John Lynch still has little reason to worry in his expected bid for reelection this fall.

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March 11, 2010

The New McCarthyism By Joe Conason

The national madness known as "McCarthyism" began 60 years ago in Wheeling, W.V., when Joseph R. McCarthy held up a scrap of paper that supposedly listed the names of 57 State Department officials he said were actually Communists and traitors.

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March 11, 2010

Meg Whitman Can Run a Company, but Can She Govern? By Debra J. Saunders

It took me five months to get my first interview with former eBay CEO and California GOP gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman, and when I did, it was after a press event where the news reporters were not allowed to ask questions. Swell.

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March 11, 2010

45% Say Parents Less Involved Now In Their Children’s Education

Americans are critical of the textbooks children use and of the government for not spending enough on the schools. But many also criticize the performance of today’s parents.

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March 10, 2010

Voters Say Economy, Government Ethics Are Most Important Issues

Voters continue to rate the economy as the most important issue regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports, but the issue of government ethics and corruption takes near equal status this month.

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March 10, 2010

New Hampshire Senate: Two Republicans Enjoy Double Digit Lead

Two Republican hopefuls now post 10-point leads over likely Democratic nominee Paul Hodes in New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate race.

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March 10, 2010

Washington Senate: Murray Still Tops All GOP Foes Except Rossi

There’s been little change over the past month in the U.S. Senate race in Washington, with Democratic Senator Patty Murray still holding double-digit leads over the three top announced Republican challengers but falling just short of the 50% safety mark for incumbents.

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March 10, 2010

34% Say U.S. Unemployment Rate Will Be Higher A Year From Now

Thirty-four percent (34%) of Americans expect the unemployment rate in the United States to be higher a year from today. That marks a five-point increase from December.

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March 10, 2010

An American Obsession with Freedom By Tony Blankley

The publishing of the Declaration of Independence 233 years ago by our Founders was responded to in London by two of the 18th century's greatest minds: Dr. Samuel Johnson (after whom a literary age was named) and Edmund Burke (the intellectual father of modern Anglo-American conservatism).