Tuesday Afternoon News Roundup
Posted by Phoenix Woman on March 11, 2008
This morning’s Rasmussen Reports’ national daily tracking poll shows Barack Obama opening up a 48% to 41% lead over Hillary Clinton. This is well outside the poll’s 3% margin of error. Yesterday, Gallup showed Obama opening up a lead as well, 49% to 44%. The MoE for this poll is 3% as well.
People become more liberal with age. Yeah, it’s easy to think that you did it your way when you’re a teen or even a twentysomething and living in your parents’ basement, but when you get older and as the brain fully matures (something that doesn’t happen until around age 25), you develop more of a conscience and an open awareness of how we’re all in this together.
Home schooling families Threatened By Court Ruling. Well, only if you think having decent credentials and textbooks, particularly for biology, is threatening. These two sentences in particular give the game away:
“I have sincerely held religious beliefs,” said Phillip Long. “Public schools conflict with that. I have to go with what my conscience requires me.”
Long said he doesn’t believe in evolution, among other topics, that are taught at public schools.
fifilaroach said
Sorry to post the obvious, but GO OBAMA! I’m thrilled to see him leading more and more as time goes by. Please, oh please, let him win the nomination, and then the presidency. I feel he is the best person to unite our country, and to lead us out of the horrible mess Bush has gotten us into.