The public apparently has little sympathy for complaints about the across-the-board cutting ordered in most discretionary federal spending. The public is more concerned, a poll shows, about the cuts in Defense spending. By a margin of 61 percent to 33...
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Aviation ordnanceman practice color guard drills aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) in the Atlantic Ocean on Feb. 15, 2013.
Most Cuts OK, Not Defense: Poll
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People look at boats on display at The Miami International Boat Show on Feb. 15, 2013 in Miami Beach, Florida.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: -32.8
That’s the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index for the seven-day period ended Feb. 24. The index, based on Americans’ ratings of the national economy, the buying climate and their personal finances, improved to the highest level this year after climbing for...
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An attendee holds an American flag with an image of President Barack Obama before the start of the presidential inauguration in Washington on Jan. 21, 2013.
Obama More Popular than Bush — Less than Clinton, Reagan, at Second Start
With 60 percent of Americans surveyed voicing a favorable view of President Barack Obama at the start of his second term, his popularity is at its highest since his first year in office, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll....
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Payday Advance signs at California Check Cashing in Oakland, Calif. Less money will be in U.S. paychecks due to a higher Social Security tax rate.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: -34.4
That’s the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index for the week ended Jan. 6. The index, which is derived from how Americans rate the economy, the buying climate and their personal finances on a scale of minus 100 to plus 100, fell...
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A customer in a show room in Niles, Illinois.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 12.9
That’s how much the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index rose during 2012. The index, which measures Americans’ perceptions of the national economy, their personal finances and the buying climate, was minus 31.8 in the week ended Dec. 30, compared with minus...
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Valley Appliance employees deliver a Maytag Corp. electric stove to a customer in Princeton, Illinois.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: -34.4
That’s the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index for the week ended Nov. 4, the highest rating of the economy in more than four years. The index, produced for Bloomberg by Langer Research Associates, asks people to rate the national economy, the buying climate...
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President Barack Obama comforts Hurricane Sandy victim Dana Vanzant as he visits a neighborhood in Brigantine, New Jersey, on Oct. 31, 2012.
Obama’s Hurricane Response: 78-Percent Positive in Tracking Poll
While the presidential election, nationally, remains a virtually tied contest, likely voters of all political stripes have blessed President Barack Obama’s response to the storm that lashed the Northeast this week. The ABC News/Washington Post daily tracking, for several days...
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Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney holds a rally at Defiance High School, in Defiance, Ohio, on Oct. 25, 2012.
Obama, Romney Contact 4 in 10 Voters in Swing States — `Pivotal’
The gap between Republican Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama has widened in one poll — Romney up 5 percentage points in the Gallup daily tracking surveys — and narrowed in another poll — Romney up 1 point in the...
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Mitt Romney at a campaign rally on Sept. 25, 2012 in Vandalia, Ohio.
Romney’s 47% Remark: Negative
Mitt Romney’s remark about the 47 percent of Americans who pay no taxes, thus “victims” of government dependency and politically unreachable by his campaign, hasn’t gone over well. “Americans disagree with Romney’s recently leaked comment to high-dollar donors that 47...
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Supporters cheer on President Barack Obama as he takes the stage at St. Petersburg College for the kick-off event of his two day Florida bus tour on Sept. 8, 2012.
Obama’s Positive Ratings, Romney’s `Underwater’ — ABC/Post Poll
For the first time since April, more people hold a favorable view of President Barack Obama than an unfavorable view, in the ABC News/Washington Post survey this week that portrays the presidential contest as virtually tied among those most likely...
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