Posts Tagged ‘Sour’

Sour end to 2012 masks positive trends in America

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Many Americans seem to be in a sour mood as 2013 begins, after Hurricane Sandy ravaged parts of the East Coast, a gunman massacred 20 school children in Connecticut and a long, contentious election campaign was followed by failure to resolve the "fiscal cliff" issue by year-end. Americans have not been very [...]

“Fiscal cliff” talks turn sour, Obama threatens veto

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Talks to avoid a U.S. fiscal crisis stalled on Wednesday as President Barack Obama accused opponents of holding a personal grudge against him while the top Republican negotiator called the president "irrational." As a year-end deadline nears, Obama and House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner are locked in intense bargaining over a [...]

Ohio Voters Still Sour on Kasich

A new Quinnipiac poll in Ohio finds Gov. John Kasich (R) has a 42% to 35% job approval rating — his first positive rating since he took office — but voters still say he does not deserve a second term by a 44% to 37% margin. Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire Tweet This Post

Factbox: Japan-China economic ties hurt as relations sour

(Reuters) – A territorial row over a chain of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea has soured relations between China and Japan and spilled over to business ties between Asia’s two largest economies. Japanese automakers Toyota Motor Corp, Nissan Motor Co Ltd and Suzuki are curtailing production in China in the wake of anti-Japan [...]

Voters sour on economy, but Obama job approval up

Still sour on the state of the U.S. economy, Americans are nonetheless heading into the home stretch to Election Day feeling better about the country's future and about how President Barack Obama is doing his job, a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows. Tweet This Post

Americans Sour on Chief Justice Roberts

A new Gallup survey finds Americans’ opinions of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts are now much more negative than they were seven years ago, coming after his vote to uphold President Obama’s healthcare law. Tweet This Post

Independent Voters Sour on Both Obama and Romney

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds swing-voting independents see President Obama’s plans for the economy negatively rather than positively by 54% to 38%. Tweet This Post

GOP Madness, Sour 16, Match 8

Time to close out the second round! The bracket is here.   Tweet This Post

GOP Madness, Sour 16, Match 7

Seriously, how could you guys vote down “oops”? That may have been the single most upsetting moment of this entire competition. “Oops” was finalist material! Heck, I was rooting for it to go all the way! How often do you get to see a frontrunner campaign self-destruct in 30 seconds, live on television? Tweet This [...]