Daily Show Slams Down on Mitt Romney in Florida Primary
January 31st, 2012Indecision 2012 – Floridal Kombat
Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina debates using patented dick fu against Mitt Romney, so Romney hits below the belt in Florida.
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Consumer Confidence Continues Rise in President Obama’s Fourth Year in Office
January 31st, 2012by Glynn Wilson
Consumer confidence in the United States continues to rise out of the doldrums of the Bush recession, according to the latest Gallup poll on the subject.
The confidence of Americans in an improving economy is up compared with December, according to Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index, and much improved over the highly negative readings of last fall and late summer, and over the levels found after the recession was announced in 2008 just before President George W. Bush left office.
“Weekly economic confidence remains at its highest level since last spring, showing steadier improvement from October through early January,” Gallup concludes in its analysis of public opinion in the U.S.
Most of the gains in the overall Economic Confidence Index since the summer have occurred in the outlook component, the percentage of Americans who believe the economy is improving minus those saying it is getting worse. Over the same period, consumer perceptions of current economic conditions (the percentage rating them “poor” subtracted from those rating them “excellent” or “good”) have improved by about half as much.
