A new ABC/WashPost poll finds that independents now favor the Democratic Party over the GOP 59% to 31%. And Americans who cite the Iraq war as the most important issue determining their vote next month favor Dems 72% to 21%. Just 23% of indies feel that the country is headed in the right direction.
A new USAT/Gallup poll says just 19% of Americans believe we're winning the war in Iraq.
A group of housing activists have set up a tent city in the Liberty City neighborhood in Miami (the same neighborhood where the supposed Black not-quite-Muslim "terrorists" came from.) They're saying that if the city and county won't provide housing for the poor, they will. The group, led by folks we know well at the station, used a 1989 court rulling, Pottinger v. Miami, in which the city settled a case by agreeing to no longer harass or arrest homeless people who are engaged in "life sustaining" activities -- like squatting on public land. Novel approach to a growing housing crisis -- and I underscore crisis, in South Florida.
Inquiring minds in Latin America want to know: why would President Bush purchase 100,000 acres in Paraguay?
AskMen.com releases its list of the top 49 men. Bill Clinton comes in at #10, Jay Z is #2 and George Clooney tops the charts.
Katherine Harris debated Bill Nelson last night. Sorry I missed that one ...
America drops to #53 on the rankings for global press freedom. We were #17 in 2002. We tied with Botswana, Croatia and Tonga. Great. This should help, right Duncan Hunter?
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