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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Tiger Woods’ favorables falling
Tiger Woods’ favorable ratings with the American people are falling faster than Woods’ golf scores used to.
A Rasmussen Reports poll released on Wednesday, Dec. 9, found that 38 percent of Americans now have a favorable opinion of Woods, down from 56 percent a week ago.
Two years ago, Woods got a favorable rating from 83 percent of the people.
The new poll finds 49 percent of the people with an unfavorable rating of Woods, up from 27 percent a week ago.
The poll comes in the wake of Woods’ minor traffic accident and reports of affairs with women other than his wife.
The poll was taken Monday, Dec. 7 to Tuesday, Dec. 8 with 1,000 adults and has a margin of error of plust or minus 3 percentage points.
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Consumer advocates oppose telecom bill
Advocates for consumers and low-income Ohioans are opposing two telecom reform bills pending in the General Assembly that they say will lead to rate hikes for basic telephone service and weaker consumer protections.
More than 40 groups representing millions of Ohioans on Wednesday Dec. 9 signed onto a letter to state leaders urging defeat House Bill 276 and Senate Bill 162, which are supported by the Ohio Telecom Association.
Ohio Consumers’ Counsel Janine Migden-Ostrander, who represents the state’s 4.5 million residential utility customers, warns that the legislation would lead to steeper monthly bills, larger security deposits, longer outages and potentially quicker disconnections.
Ohio has 9.1 million wireless subscribers and 5.7 million land lines. Wireless and cable-based telephone service are not subject to regulation by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
Migden-Ostrander said the legislation would allow utilities to increase their basic telephone service rates by $1.25 a month every year and dilute current minimum service requirements.
“This is absolutely not the time to be granting rate increases to companies that don’t need the rate increases,” said Ellis Jacobs, an attorney with Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, a legal clinic in western Ohio.
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GOP not endorsing - for now - in DeWine-Yost AG race
The Ohio Republican Party’s screening committee isn’t going to make a choice -at least right now - in the race between former U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine and Delaware County Prosecutor Dave Yost for the GOP nomination in next year’s attorney general race.
The committee met by phone on Monday and “has decided not to make a recommendation at this time,” Ohio Republican Chairman Kevin DeWine, Mike DeWine’s cousin, said on Wednesday, Dec. 9.
Yost said he was disappointed but would continue running.
“‘I’m real optimistic,” said Yost. “Our internal polling shows that an informed voter is a Dave Yost voter.”
Mike DeWine said that he was not disappointed and declined to discuss Yost’s internal polls.
“My focus in this race is articulating a vision for the attorney general’s office, what I want to do with that office and raising money so I can get that message across to people,” said Mike DeWine
Democratic incumbent Attorney General Richard Cordray is expected to seek re-election.
Mike DeWine has won two U.S. Senate races, lost two U.S. Senate races and was elected lieutenant governor on the ticket with George Voinovich for governor in 1990.
“I would say that both (Mike) DeWine and Yost are imminently qualified to serve as attorney general. Either would do a better job of running that office than (Democrat) Rich Cordray has,” said Kevin DeWine.
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Obama’s approval falls to new low in poll
Voters across the country give President Barack Obama his lowest approval rating ever and they don’t much like how he’s handling health care, according to a Quinnipiac University Poll released on Wednesday, Dec. 9.
In the poll, voters were nearly split in judging the president’s performance - with 46 percent approving and 44 percent disapproving. In a Nov. 18 poll, his approval rating was 48-42 percent. Obama’s highest approval rating was 59-31 percent in a June 4 poll.
On health care, voters disapprove 52-38 percent of the proposal now under consideration in Congress. Also, they disapprove of Obama’s handling of health care, 56-38 percent.
However, voters support 56-38 percent giving Americans the option of being covered by a government health plan. That finding comes just as news reports from Washington indicate that Senate Democrats may be dropping the so-called “public option” from their health care overhaul plan.
Here’s your chance to evaluate Obama’s performance.
“President Obama’s job approval rating continues to slide and it’s evident the deterioration stems from voter unhappiness over domestic policy matters,” Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac Polling Institute, said in a press release.
The poll was taken from Dec. 1 through Sunday, Dec. 6, with 2,313 registered voters nationwide and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
