I love running this video. Like many of the newly elected Republican Tea Party Governors, polls are not their friends and Rick Scott of Florida has voters very upset and now would choose Alex Sink over him if they had the chance. Only three months removed from Governor Rick Scott’s (R) inauguration, a majority of Florida voters now say the state is headed in the wrong direction and that, if they could do it all over again, they wouldn’t have elected Scott in the first place, according to a new Suffolk University poll. In the poll, 54% of voters said the state was headed in the wrong direction, compared to 30% who said it was going the right way. Further, just under half (49%) of all voters said they disapproved of Scott’s job performance, versus only 28% who said they approved. Scott’s approval rating is so bad that the poll found him losing a hypothetical do-over election to Democrat Alex Sink by a ten-point margin, 41% to 31%. Previous polls have also found Scott’s job approval deep underwater, including a Quinnipiac poll released earlier this month that pegged his approval to disapproval split at 35% to 48%. A March PPP poll showed Scott with an even worse 32%-55% split, and found him losing a do-over election — by a 20-point margin. It’s too bad that when voters got angry they turned to phony’s like Rick Scott. The Democrats didn’t help themselves at the time, but after Republicans destroyed our economy, electing alleged criminals is not the answer either.
Continue reading …I love running this video. Like many of the newly elected Republican Tea Party Governors, polls are not their friends and Rick Scott of Florida has voters very upset and now would choose Alex Sink over him if they had the chance. Only three months removed from Governor Rick Scott’s (R) inauguration, a majority of Florida voters now say the state is headed in the wrong direction and that, if they could do it all over again, they wouldn’t have elected Scott in the first place, according to a new Suffolk University poll. In the poll, 54% of voters said the state was headed in the wrong direction, compared to 30% who said it was going the right way. Further, just under half (49%) of all voters said they disapproved of Scott’s job performance, versus only 28% who said they approved. Scott’s approval rating is so bad that the poll found him losing a hypothetical do-over election to Democrat Alex Sink by a ten-point margin, 41% to 31%. Previous polls have also found Scott’s job approval deep underwater, including a Quinnipiac poll released earlier this month that pegged his approval to disapproval split at 35% to 48%. A March PPP poll showed Scott with an even worse 32%-55% split, and found him losing a do-over election — by a 20-point margin. It’s too bad that when voters got angry they turned to phony’s like Rick Scott. The Democrats didn’t help themselves at the time, but after Republicans destroyed our economy, electing alleged criminals is not the answer either.
Continue reading …ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika said on Friday he will launch legislative reforms and amend the constitution, a move aimed at heading off a wave of pro-democracy uprisings sweeping the Arab world. “I will urge the parliament to review all the legislative framework,” Bouteflika, 74, said in a speech broadcast by state-owned television. The president, who has not…
Continue reading …Protesters in Bolivia have blocked main roads and clashed with police, on the ninth day of nationwide demonstrations against the government. Police used tear gas to clear the main road south of La Paz, and protesters fought back with stones and slingshots. Teachers and health workers are on strike to demand a 15% pay increase. The unrest is the worst yet faced by President Evo…
Continue reading …Protesters in Bolivia have blocked main roads and clashed with police, on the ninth day of nationwide demonstrations against the government. Police used tear gas to clear the main road south of La Paz, and protesters fought back with stones and slingshots. Teachers and health workers are on strike to demand a 15% pay increase. The unrest is the worst yet faced by President Evo…
Continue reading …The International mission in Libya appeared to be running out of momentum yesterday as Barack Obama admitted the situation on the ground had reached a military “stalemate” and France conceded a new UN resolution might be necessary to oust Muammar Gaddafi from power. As the regime’s rockets continued to hit the beleaguered rebel town of Misrata and Nato forces struck Colonel Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, France and Britain were still struggling to persuade other members of the organisation to provide additional warplanes. A meeting of member countries in Berlin yesterday broke up without any guarantee that military leaders would get the new resources they have…
Continue reading …Just a couple of weeks after removing several channels from its live TV streaming iPad app Time Warner Cable has added most of them back again, with the notable exception of networks owned by Viacom, which it took to court last week . So far, other than announcing Discovery and Fox channels are back on the TWCable TV iPad app, we weren’t able to get anything other than a no comment out of anyone at the companies involved, so we don’t know if the channel providers have spontaneously come around to Time Warner’s way of thinking (this seems unlikely) or if it has simply decided to press the issue. We’ll see who is suing who next week, until then you can enjoy watching whatever happens to be on Fox News Channel, FX or National Geographic (if you actually do enjoy that, we don’t like to live by programmers broadcast schedules – DVR4LIFE) on your iPad as much as you like. Time Warner Cable brings back Discovery, Fox channels to its iPad app originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Florida State Sen. Gary Siplin’s long quest to get the law behind baggy pants bans is nearing fruition. Siplin’s bill to make it illegal for students on campuses to wear clothes exposing their underwear has passed the state Senate, and a similar bill is making its way through the House,…
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