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[|Historical Bush Approval Rating] - In class we mentioned that people don't like President Bush. This site lets us know just how much people don't like him. The chart at the end is pretty instructive (scroll all the way down). Hard to believe Bush once had 92% approval (shortly after 9/11).

[|Public Policy Polling] - We haven't mentioned this in class, but this site has a lot of good info about what voters in North Carolina think of public policies, candidates, etc.

"Faithless electors" are electors who go to the electoral college having pledged to vote for a certain candidate (the one their state elected) but then break their pledge and vote for some other candidate. They are not faithful to their pledge, so they are known as... (you guessed it). They have apparently never changed an election's result, and though some states (24) have laws that allow them to be punished for voting for someone else, no faitheless elector has been punished.

Here's more info from [|wikipedia] (that's where I got the info above from as well).

The Obama Nation (posted by Mr. Goldberg for Chase, whose computer is unhappy)  The Obama Nation is a book by Jerome Corsi which harshly criticizes Barack Obama. It talks about every bad rumor and past event which Obama has even discussed about himself. This book emphasizes these past mistakes such as Obama's past drug use, and his extreme leftism. Or his connection to corrupt bankers. In response to this book, Obama wrote a fourty page response called "Unfit for publication" In this Obama states that this book contains many factual errors and dismissed most of the information as "Lies". This book took #1 on the New York times best seller list.  Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Obama_Nation

Candidate's views on [|gun control].