gallup.com - 12/16/2008
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PRINCETON, NJ -- About one out of four Americans, including half of Republicans, believe that members of President-elect Barack Obama's staff engaged in illegal activities relating to the charges that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was trying to profit from naming Obama's replacement in the U.S. ...
bloomberg.com - 12/16/2008
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Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Democrats in the Illinois
House of Representatives postponed stripping Governor Rod Blagojevich’s power...
to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama that prosecutors say Blagojevich tried to sell. The ...
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Illinois Democrats Let Blagojevich Keep Naming Power ...
nypost.com - 12/16/2008
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nypost.com —
Last updated: 3:54 am December 16, 2008 Posted:
2:57 am December 16, 2008 Barack Obama is experiencing...
the first "scandal" of his presidency before he's taken office - or so sayeth the media. Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is accused of (among much ...
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BUNGLING ON BLAGO - New York Post
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Newt to RNC: Yank the Obama/Blago attack ad
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... for the past two weeks, with fully 68 percent confident in his ability to be a good president, near his all-time high. Exit question: Why not just hold the ad back until we know for a fact someone’s done something wrong?
Poll: Only One In Four Think Obama's Team Did Something Wrong In Connection With Blago
TPM Election Central —
As I noted here yesterday, the way to poll the Blago mess is not to ask respondents the meaningless question of whether people think Obama's team was "involved" in the scandal, as Rasmussen did -- a formulation that could mean literally anything.
Rather, the better, more fine-grained question is whether people think anyone on Obama's team did anything wrong in connection with it.
Now Gallup has done just that. The result?
* Only 26% think someone on Obama's staff has "done something illegal" in connection with the mess. ...
One in four have bought the nonsense
Political Animal —
... , the results didn't tell us much. After a week of bizarre reporting, and a bizarre effort on the part of many outlets and media personalities to draw a connection that doesn't exist, the real question is how many Americans believe the president-elect and/or his team did something wrong/inappropriate. Today, Gallup released a more useful report . About one out of four Americans, including half of Republicans, believe that members of President-elect Barack Obama's staff engaged in illegal activities relating to the charges that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was trying to profit ...
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