Most Americans Support Government Action on Altitude Change, Poll Finds

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Among Republicans, 48 percent said they are added acceptable to vote for a applicant who supports angry altitude change, a aftereffect that Jon A. Krosnick, a assistant of political science at Stanford University and an columnist of the survey, alleged "The a lot of able finding" in the poll. 67 percent of respondents, including 48 percent of Republicans and 72 percent of independents, said they were beneath acceptable to vote for an applicant who said that human-caused altitude change is a hoax. The poll begin that 27 percent of Americans were added acceptable to vote for an applicant who took that position, and 44 percent beneath likely.

The poll begin that 83 percent of Americans, including 61 percent of Republicans and 86 percent of independents, say that if annihilation is done to abate emissions, all-around abating will be a actual or somewhat austere botheration in the future. In contrast, 40 percent of independents and alone 18 percent of Republicans said the same. Ninety-one percent of Democrats, 78 percent of independents and 51 percent of Republicans said the government should be angry altitude change. By party, 88 percent of Democrats, 83 percent of independents and 71 percent of Republicans said that altitude change was acquired at atomic in allotment by animal activities.

Of course, this should be great news and perhaps it is. If the Democrats had vision and courage, they could use this to shape their agenda. However, we also had polling a couple of years ago suggesting that a large majority of Americans supported some of the (minimal) reform to gun laws that were passed by the Senate. We know how that turned out. Why? Money and a VERY VOCAL minority that knows how to get its way. Perhaps this will be different, but the voice of ignorance seems to be much stronger and louder in the USA than any other, and combined with the power of money that harnesses itself to this dearth of wisdom, we just move further from what could be. If you're in doubt, look the move to reverse Dodd Frank for starters, and then re-visit the debate on gun laws, and then the endless move to repeal the ACA. I find the results of this poll rather strange and confusing.

Is this because the American public is confused about climate and weather or it is because they are not scientists? Most people react to climate change only when they feel the wrath of nature on their own backyard. If it snows copiously, they tend to deny global warming, and it there is a great drought they tend to believe in it. These are just weather events that do not on themselves tell the real conditions of the climate and its variation through time. Climate is usually defining as the average of the global conditions of the atmosphere, ocean and land OVER 30 YEARS, so the weather of yesterday or last week is immaterial to what scientists call climate. The poll finding that a majority (80%) of the public believes that climate change is produced by humans...in this country? with the Koch brothers telling everyone watching TV otherwise? I doubt that result very much. It is more likely to happen in Europe, not in the US.

The hero here is whoever first stated that there was a correlation between climate change and weather disasters. Now, every weather disaster is taken as evidence of global warming. And as those struck by tornadoes and hurricanes, record snowstorms and droughts come aboard, our numbers grow. Melting polar ice caps may be the best evidence, but firsthand experience changes the world. We have recruited many Californians because of the drought. Just between you and me, the Times reported a study indicating that the drought has been caused by local factors. I wouldn't tell the millions affected. After all, the icecaps are conclusive, if they believe in the drought, I see no harm done. People who are irrational have no right to stand in the way of solving life-threatening crises. "I'm not a scientist." So what are you an "Educator"? If not you can't make decisions about education. Are you a "Doctor"? If not you can't make decisions about health care? Are you a "Lawyer"? If not, you can't make decisions about the law. Are you a "Banker"? If not, you can't make any decisions about banking. The excuse is meaningless. Basically, it means that the politician can't make any decisions except the field they trained in. What this shows is that the Republicans obviously don't have a mandate, despite the elections they won last term.

If you name any issue where the two parties differ, there is always an overwhelming support for the Democrats side. So why do people keep voting for Republicans? Beats me, but it sure isn't their policies. Perhaps voters are being brainwashed by Koch Money. Or perhaps they are mad at the Democrats for behaving too much like Republicans, and don't notice that the Republicans will behave even more like Republicans. It's amazing that anyone believes that the United States isn't among the world's biggest polluters. We rank up there in the top five and if we didn't have the EPA regulating smokestacks, water, car emissions and the like we'd probably be number one, because relative to our population, Americans consume far more than other developed countries.

Mitt Romney Say He Won’t Run For President

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Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, told a accumulation of supporters on Friday that he would not seek his party's choice for admiral in 2016.Mr. Romney, the above Massachusetts governor, aggregate his accommodation on a appointment alarm with a baby accumulation of advisers. In a additional alarm to a beyond accumulation of supporters, Mr. Romney said, "After putting ample anticipation into authoritative addition run for president, I've absitively it is best to accord added leaders in the affair the befalling to become our next nominee."

In an added than four-hour affair endure week, Mr. Romney's top agents associates and trusted admiral from 2012 relayed a sobering absoluteness - they accurate Mr. Romney and anticipation he would be the best president, but they did not necessarily animate a third run. Word of Mr. Romney's accommodation beatific after-effects through the Republican donor apple aboriginal Friday, as Romney aides began to telegraph the account to donors and added agents associates and strategists. He is appointed to accept banquet with Mr. Christie on Friday evening, according to two humans with ability of his schedule, suggesting that Mr. Romney may be because throwing his support, and that of his own political operation, to Mr. Christie.

Mr. Romney is an individual who comes from so many years of privilege, as well as having been the 'top dog' so often; I doubt he is interested in taking the VP position. Whoever eventually gets the GOP nomination they will likely select one of the less abhorrent Tea Party favorites (e.g. Cruz, Walker). That will put that constituency behind their ticket. As a (now former) establishment candidate, besides Mormons, Mr. Romney would offer roughly the same constituency as the presidential hopeful on the ticket (i.e. assuming the GOP will go with a more mainstream candidate). A cabinet position? Maybe. But...the White House must be won first. I think he realized that the money men in the GOP were not going to back him. I've no doubt that Mitt thinks he's the best man for the job.

I wonder what he was promised for not throwing his station wagon with his dog strapped to the top (a shout out to Gail Collins) into the ring. Mitt made a good choice. His 47% comment will follow him the rest of his life, mostly because a lot of us believe it truly reflects how he and the GOP feel. The destruction of the middle and working classes and the amassing of 50% of the world's wealth in the hands of one percent of the world's population has been where this nation has been going since Ronald Regan. Mitt was just another part of that, and I don't see any Republican planning to run who is any different. Clearly the real money men gave Mitt an offer he couldn't refuse. The fix has always been in with Bush. It's going to be very amusing watching the big money destroy Christie, and then wipe out all the far-right loons from the Clown Car. Then it will be even more fun watching the Kochs’ throws almost a billion dollars down the same rat hole they used in 2012, when Hillary wipes the floor with Bush.

Good move by Mitt! It was clear he could not connect with the average voter and we would have seen his third attempt at the White House fail. This was a man who changed positions more than the Santa Ana winds and could not be counted on to stick to any policy position he put forward. The Republicans will now attempt to find a consensus candidate. Good luck with that! Mitt is probably the best candidate that the Republicans can come up with. His unwillingness to run is an acknowledgment of his limitations and his party's limitations. They have, through their talking points, legislation, obstructionism, court rulings, alienated the nonwhites in general. They have become the party of that are anti-minorities, anti-immigrants, anti-science and anti-common-sense; it is now a party full of hit men for the wealthy. Thank god gerrymandering is much harder than on the local level. Otherwise the Republicans would also win the presidential elections with the lesser of the popular votes.