Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Current Poll: Airlines Cutting Back
Beginning Sept. 2, United Airlines will no longer hand out complimentary pretzels and cookies to economy class fliers across North America. The airline is also dropping complimentary meals in domestic business class, effective Oct. 1
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| Question |
% |
Choices |
| Would an airline's decision to stop offering snacks or lunch deter you from flying with that airline? |
36% |
Yes |
| 64% |
No |
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Vote
8/19/2008: Obama’s Running Mate
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| Question |
% |
Choices |
| To whom would you like to see Sen. Barack Obama choose as his running mate? |
51% |
Sen. Joe Biden |
| 3% |
Sen. Evan Bayh |
| 3% |
Gov. Tim Kaine |
| 28% |
Sen. Hillary Clinton |
| 15% |
Someone else |
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8/18/2008: The Four-Day School Week
Facing hard economic times, one school district in Minnesota is skipping classes on Mondays and making up the time with an additional 10 minutes per class on the other four days of the week in an attempt to save money.
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| Question |
% |
Choices |
| Do you think the four-day school week is a good idea? |
31% |
Yes |
| 69% |
No |
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8/15/2008: Interest in the Olympics
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| Question |
% |
Choices |
| If you weren’t initially interested in the Olympics, have you since been drawn into watching them? |
46% |
Yes |
| 54% |
No |
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8/14/2008: Clinton’s Name Placed into Nomination
Hillary Clinton's name has been placed into nomination at the party's convention in Denver later this month.
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| Question |
% |
Choices |
| Did you want to see Clinton’s name placed into nomination? |
38% |
Yes |
| 43% |
No |
| 19% |
I don't care |
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8/13/2008: Driving Less
As summer vacation season kicked in, Americans got out of their cars, driving 12.2 billion fewer miles in June than the same month a year earlier, just as gas prices were peaking.
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| Question |
% |
Choices |
| Have you been driving less? |
73% |
Yes |
| 27% |
No |
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8/12/2008: The Olympic Opening Ceremonies
It turns out that some of the fireworks seen during the telecast of the Olympic opening ceremonies were computer generated and the little girl who sang the Chinese national anthem was lip syncing.
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| Question |
% |
Choices |
| If you watched the Olympic opening ceremonies, does it matter to you that some of the ceremony wasn’t really what it appeared to be? |
35% |
Yes |
| 65% |
No |
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8/11/2008: Edwards Cost Clinton the Nomination?
A Clinton aide says that Clinton would have been the Democratic presidential nominee if John Edwards had been caught in his lie about an affair and had been forced out of the race last year because their Iowa voters were similar.
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| Question |
% |
Choices |
| Do you think the Edwards' cover-up cost Clinton the nomination? |
20% |
Yes |
| 80% |
No |
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8/8/2008: The Olympics
China opened the 29th Olympic Games on Friday with stunning fireworks as the Asian nation kicked off the biggest and most scrutinized Games in history.
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| Question |
% |
Choices |
| Will you be watching the Olympics? |
57% |
Yes |
| 43% |
No |
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8/7/2008: Politics and the Olympic Games
Much of the world is looking at the Olympics games in Beijing as a time to focus in on human rights issues in China.
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| Question |
% |
Choices |
| Do you think all politics should be put aside during the games? |
65% |
Yes |
| 35% |
No |
| 0% |
Undecided |
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8/6/2008: Identity-Theft
Identity theft is becoming more prevalent every day.
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| Question |
% |
Choices |
| Have you ever been the victim of identity-theft? |
19% |
Yes |
| 81% |
No |
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