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4 months to the California Primary, but fresh after caucus wins in Colorado and Minnesota and in Missouri's non-binding primary, Rick Santorum draws to within a whisker of nominal frontrunner Mitt Romney, 33% for Romney, 31% for Santorum, effectively even, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for KABC-TV Los Angeles, KPIX-TV San Francisco, KGTV-TV San Diego and KFSN-TV Fresno. Santorum leads Romney among seniors, among evangelicals, among pro-life voters, among Tea Party members, among those who say they are "very conservative," and in the Central Valley region of California.

Troops get paid in lots of different ways. There’s basic pay, allowances, bonuses, incentives and assorted housing, health and retirement bennies. Is this the best way to compensate U.S. military personnel? In other words, are we getting the biggest bang for the taxpayer’s buck with this rucksack of options? Defense budget pro Todd Harrison of the independent Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments is trying to figure this out. He’s launching an on-line survey to see what the troops think.

BizPac Review is a conservative political news and opinion website in Florida. It's getting close Florida. Out of the four candidates left, who will you vote for? Take the BizPac Review survey.

Vermont fraternity chapter closed indefinitely over rape surveyLISA RATHKE - Staff Writer 9:53 a.m. EST, December 17, 2011 MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A University of Vermont fraternity whose members are accused of circulating a survey that asked who they would like to rape has been closed indefinitely. The national Sigma Phi Epsilon made the announcement Friday after an internal investigation and lengthy discussions with the university in Burlington. "Without suggesting that every member had knowledge of this questionnaire, the questions asked in the document are deplorable and absolutely inconsistent with our values," said Brian Warren, executive director of the national...

Hot Air Presidential Poll: Halloween Please vote only once. Your ballot should take less than a minute to complete. We'll announce the results after voting has concluded. As always, double voters will be removed from the final tally, so no cheating http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/31/hot-air-presidential-survey-halloween-edition/

No one seems to know Occupy Wall Street's stances or demands, especially them. So maybe they just need a little help? We asked 50 Wall St. Occupiers (of the approx. 200 there) these 20 agree/disagree questions, hoping to clarify this quagmire. There's good news for the occupiers! Nearly everyone at the protest can agree something; hating capitalism and free-market economics. http://www.facebook.com/stoneaccount?sk=wall

Our favorite psychotic statesman, Pete Stark from the San Francisco Bay Area, has a rigged poll (analysis of rigging here) to which he invited his socialist-leaning constituents to respond.Might be worth providing your opinions.Drop by the survey site (https://forms.house.gov/stark/webforms/survey.htm) and when asked for your zip code, use any of the following zip codes which are in Pete’s district.9408394536-9453994540-9454694552, 94555, 94557, 9456094577-9457994580, 9458794603, 94605, 94614, 94621950029503595132, 95134, 95152

Peshawar, 16 September 2011, survey of the world's largest refugee population has been launched by UNHCR and the government of Pakistan. The survey aimed to capture extensive information on the challenges faced by two million Afghan refugees in Pakistan, as well as their contribution to the country's economy. By responding to questions on their livelihood, health, social conditions, legal and other issues, Afghan refugees will have the opportunity to influence government policy and programme designed to manage a refugee situation that goes back more than 30 years. Population Profiling Verification and Response (PPVR) survey is being carried out by UNHCR...

According to face-to-face surveys conducted according to the highest international standards, more Palestinians in east Jerusalem would prefer to become citizens of Israel rather than citizens of a new Palestinian state. In addition, 40 percent said they would probably or definitely move in order to live under Israeli rather than Palestinian rule. 44 percent of the Palestinians in Jerusalem say they are very, or at least somewhat, satisfied with their standard of living. This is a very high percentage compared to other populations in the Arab world. Only about 30 percent sympathize with either Fatah or Hamas or with the...

Equality in parenting is still a pipe dream. Nearly half (48%) of working moms say they spend more time each day parenting than on their careers, more than double that of working dads (19%), according to the "Moms Who Do More" National Report, commissioned by VTech®. Because moms are picking up so much slack at home AND at work, most moms agree "me time" is nearly extinct. Nearly 70% of working moms have an hour or less to themselves each day. And more than 20% report that they

This political survey was intended to provide a snapshot of Jewish voters. It offers some interesting insights into the depth and intensity of Jewish political engagement, but by the nature of this study it does not permit one to make any defining conclusions. Further, the findings confirm that from this particular cohort (some 2300 participants), Jews hold deeply embedded policy positions on key domestic and international issues. In this particular study one finds a distinctive Jewish conservative voice emerging on Israel related matters and an array of domestic social issues. [Bold added for emphasis by poster.] The data also suggests...

NASA has unveiled a flood of photos showing millions galaxies, stars and asteroids photographed by a prolific sky-mapping telescope that ended its mission earlier this year. For the first time, the space agency publicly released more than half of the 2.7 million images taken by its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope during its mission to map the entire sky. WISE launched in December 2009 and spent 14 months scanning the heavens in infrared light before shutting down this past February. The $320 million space telescope hunted for asteroids and comets, as well as more distant cosmic objects revealed by...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Business conditions for New York state-based manufacturers in April were the best in a year as new orders surged, according to a survey of executives released Friday. The Empire State manufacturing survey rose for a fifth consecutive month in April, with general business conditions increasing over four points to a reading of 21.7, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said. Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected a dip to 15.5, down from 17.5 for March. The new orders index for April jumped 17 points, to 22.3, and the shipments index shot up 27 points to 28.3,...

America we have a problem. According to polls the majority of Americans believe that our government is illegitimate. Also the majority of the American people believe that the president of the United States of American is ineligible to hold the office of President.(see story) Wenzel Strategies reports that a recent poll indicates that not even one person in 10 believes Barry Hussein Soetoro has shown that he is eligible to be president of the United States. Wenzel Strategies, an independent public opinion research firm based in Ohio, conducted a nationwide telephone poll using a randomly selected sample of all adults....

It is difficult to take Michael Bloomberg seriously. It always has been, but he now makes if durn near impossible ... His Mayors Against Illegal Guns cabal recently paid for a survey to measure public sentiment on the issue of gun control. Had the poll be conducted by a non-partisan organization, one might grant it and Michael some credibility. But Bloomberg, his pollster nor the results have any. ... First: The questionnaire shows that survey callers know the name of the respondent, and decline to speak with anyone else. This indicates a non-random survey, and one conducted from a list...

Nearly two-thirds of U.S. doctors surveyed fear healthcare reform could worsen care for patients, by flooding their offices and hurting income, according to a Thomson Reuters survey released Tuesday. The survey of more than 2,900 doctors found many predict the legislation will force them to work harder for less money. "When asked about the quality of healthcare in the U.S. over the next five years, 65 percent of the doctors believed it would deteriorate with only 18 percent predicting it would improve," Thomson Reuters, parent company of Reuters, said in a statement.

Approximately seventy people were interviewed for this survey at the 2010 International Christian Retail and Sales convention in St. Louis, Missouri. The majority of the results were obtained by questionnaire, and a limited number of individuals agreed to an “on air” recording of their responses to these survey questions (broadcast date: Dec 12, 2010). ______________________________ Children are not born guilty of Adam's sin. They only become guilty after the age of accountability. 11% Agree 89% Disagree * According to David in Ps. 51:5, Children are not only born sinners, but are sinful from the moment of conception.See also Ps. 58:3,...

Take a trip into San Francisco’s Castro district – where people are so gay they border on ecstatic – and inquire about homosexuals serving in the United States military. You will get a handful … of predictable responses. ... You can tell a contentious and complicated issue by how well the media muddles the story through over simplification. Such was the recent case when America’s armed services released a study on the repeal of Bill “Bang the Fat Broad” Clinton’s “don’t ask and don’t speak with a lisp” policy. ... In a rush to defend the right to die in...

The Pentagon on Tuesday released a long-awaited report intended to advance a key campaign promise made by then-Sen. Obama to the fringe activist groups that supported his presidential aspirations. Now as commander in chief, President Obama has made it clear to military brass that he expects them to embrace the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered) agenda. It should come as no surprise that the release of the military's new "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" survey was carefully orchestrated to accomplish this mission.From the outset, the Pentagon had no interest in eliciting honest responses from the troops about whether the...

Is anybody who filled out the DoD DADT survey surprised at the announcement of its results? The questions made the outcome a foregone conclusion. My question is this: isn't the very fact that those who were most against repeal are the ones who do what militaries are made for - fight - a perfect reason to keep the ban in effect? Colonel, USAFR

Survey Shows 31 Abortion Centers Closed Over Last 12 Months Washington, DC -- While the pro-life movement longs for the day unborn children can be protected under the law from abortions, a new survey of the number of abortion centers nationwide shows it is possible to make a difference now. Despite the Supreme Court having allowed virtually unlimited abortions throughout pregnancy for any reason via the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions, the pro-life community has been successful in getting abortion centers to close. http://LifeNews.com/nat-6895

Survey Shows 31 Abortion Centers Closed Over Last 12 Months Washington, DC -- While the pro-life movement longs for the day unborn children can be protected under the law from abortions, a new survey of the number of abortion centers nationwide shows it is possible to make a difference now. Despite the Supreme Court having allowed virtually unlimited abortions throughout pregnancy for any reason via the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions, the pro-life community has been successful in getting abortion centers to close. http://LifeNews.com/nat-6895

Once again, the Pew Foundation has come out with a poll that has given liberals a sound bite moment. You've probably heard that 39% of Americans said that marriage is becoming obsolete. Yet as with the Pew poll on religion, a broader examination reveals results that liberals would like to ignore. Among them is a reference to a 2006 World Values Survey that showed that only 13% of Americans believed that marriage was an outdated institution. It seems odd that in four years, the number of Americans who reject marriage would increase threefold. Perhaps the apparent change is due to...

The New York Fed, the branch of the Federal Reserve System that implements monetary policy, asked about expectations for the size of the program and the time over which it would be completed, according to a survey obtained by Bloomberg News.

Hi Free Republic, this is my first post here. I came to Free Republic to seek your opinions in a survey about foreign countries. Would you care to take it? http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CBQ7HJZ

It's too late to back out now because President Obama is already racking up frequent flier miles on his Western campaign swing, allegedly to help out embattled Democratic senators. But a new Gallup Poll out this morning puts the top Democrat himself at his lowest approval rating ever and finds most Americans do not want the Real Good Talker to have a second term. Other than that, Obama should be a real help to Washington's embattled Patty Murray today and Nevada's embattled Harry Reid and California's embattled Barbara Boxer later, trying to salvage the large Democratic majorities in both houses...

Here's a fact you're not likely to see on tonight's evening news broadcasts: According to a recent poll, Arabs living abroad are more likely to be opposed to the "Ground Zero Mosque" than the American media are. According to a recent survey by the Arabic online news service Elaph (Arabic version here), 58 percent of Arabs think the construction should be moved elsewhere. And according to a Media Research Center study released last week, 55 percent of network news coverage of the debate has come down on the pro-Mosque side.The MRC study also found that on the question of whether

The U.S. Department of Education is currently conducting an important national research study about adult job training and education. This short survey is the first step in a study about job and career training opportunities for people of all ages. It will let us know if anyone in your household is eligible for the study. Each household is different and we need your response so we can contact you to administer a survey that is right for your household. Return the form even if no one in your household is currently in an adult training or education program. The survey...

A special Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) survey has found that more Israeli Jews are becoming increasingly religiously observant than the reverse. 21% of those surveyed said they are currently more religious than they were in the past, while 14% say they are less religious. Five percent of respondents defined themselves as “chozrim b'teshuva,” a term often used to refer to those raised in non-religious households who choose to become religious as adults. Hareidi-religious respondents were most likely to define themselves as chozrim b'teshuva – a full 22% of them said they were chozrim b'teshuva, compared to 17% of the...

Nearly 1 in 5 Americans Thinks Obama Is Muslim, Survey ShowsBy Lauren Green Published August 19, 2010 A new survey reports a sharp increase in the number of Americans who, incorrectly, say President Obama is a Muslim. The increase has occurred over the last couple of years, and the poll was taken before the president stepped into the fray of the Ground Zero mosque controversy. The findings are part of the "Religion, Politics and the President" poll conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life early this month. It also explores Americans' attitudes toward religion's impact on society...

Liberals Lost on Economics Zeljka Buturovic and Daniel Klein considered 4,835 respondents in a Zogby International survey asking them eight basic economic questions and how they identify politically on a scale from libertarian to progressive/very liberal. To measure the results they measured the number of questions that were answered incorrectly giving some leeway to those who found the question ambiguous and answered not sure. When the results came in this was the spread (these figures represent the number of questions answered incorrectly out of eight possible). Very Conservative, 1.30 Libertarian, 1.38 Conservative, 1.67 Moderate, 3.67 Liberal, 4.69 Progressive/Very Liberal, 5.26...

The Defense Department says that only about a quarter of the troops sent a survey on gays in the military have responded.

OMAHA, Neb. — Despite positive economic signs in nine Midwest and Plains states, fewer of the supply managers surveyed for the July Business Conditions Index are confident about the regional recovery. In the Mid-America report released today, the July confidence index dropped to 54.8, its lowest level since February 2009. The overall index dipped to 60.8 from 62.5 in June and 64.2 in May. The report uses a collection of indexes that range from zero to 100, and any score above 50 suggests economic growth in the next three to six months. The report is overseen by Creighton University economist...

Today I received a 2010 National Impeachment Survey in the mail from a group called White House Watch, a project of the Policy Issues Institute, Floyd Brown, Director. Question 1: 1. Should your Republican Leaders continue to pursue an investigation into Barak Obama's use of Executive Orders to bypass the Constitution? [ ] yes [ ] no It goes on with various other questions including a question on the birth certificate issue. Of course they are also soliciting donations.

A copy of the Pentagon survey gauging the impact of repealing the Don't Ask, Don't Tell ban on gay soldiers serving openly in the military has been leaked to the Palm Center research institute. You can read it here.

Gay rights groups are concerned about possible skewed results in the Pentagon’s massive survey of military attitudes toward the repeal of “don’t ask don’t tell,” because of the way questions are reportedly worded and the potential for a lack of privacy for respondents. On Wednesday, the Defense Department e-mailed survey questions to 400,000 members of the active duty and reserve forces, seeking information on how they viewed the ban on gays serving openly in the armed forces. “This is an extraordinary initiative,” said Aubrey Sarvis, president of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, saying the military didn’t poll troops when President...

Thousands of American Muslims -- in Chicago this weekend for a mega convention -- are being asked to detail hate directed at them because of their faith. "The survey will be asking about 3,000 respondents how Islamophobia has affected them and to identify where they see the most examples of it," Amina Sharif, Chicago spokeswoman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Thursday. Muslim men pray with Mohamed Magid on Friday as the Islamic Society of North America kicked off its 2010 annual conference of "Nurturing Compassionate Communities" at the Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont. "Chicago is a diverse metropolis,...

Homeowners 'Overconfident' About Home Values: Zillow By: Brittany Dunn 05/21/2010 In just one quarter, homeowners have gone from being overly cynical about the state of their own home’s value to being overly confident. According to the Q1 Homeowner Confidence Survey conducted by Seattle-based Zillow, 50 percent of homeowners nationwide believe their own home’s value declined in the past year. But in reality, 65 percent of U.S. homes have dropped in value in the last 12 months. This overconfidence brought Zillow’s Q1 2010 Home Value Misperception Index up to 5, a jump from -2 in the Q4 2009 index. Zillow said...

A friend of mine completed the U.S. Census, which was advertised as being the document the government needs in order to determine how to allocate funds (for hospitals, police officers, etc.) throughoute various communnities. The slogan was, "We can't go forward if you don't send it back." Naturally, my friend thought that once she returned her Census form, she had done her duty. Well, now she has received a more extensive form entitled "The American Commmunity Survey" from the U.S. Department of Commerce. It is very intrusive and extensive, going so far as asking about her income, what type of...

By almost every conceivable measure Americans are less positive and more critical of government these days, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

Favorable views of labor unions have plummeted since 2007, amid growing public skepticism about unions’ purpose and power. Currently, 41% say they have a favorable opinion of labor unions while about as many (42%) express an unfavorable opinion. In January 2007, a clear majority (58%) had a favorable view of unions while just 31% had an unfavorable impression. The latest nationwide survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Feb. 3-9 among 1,383 adults reached on cell phones and landlines, finds that favorable opinions of unions have fallen across demographic and partisan groups. Still, far...

The Esquire Survey of America's Republican Elite Promised anonymity, 75 Republican-party leaders respond to questions about Glenn Beck, a flat tax, who should run in 2012, their favorite Democrat, and much more (Go to the link provided to read the survey results.)

PRINCETON, NJ -- More than one-third of Americans (36%) have a positive image of "socialism," while 58% have a negative image. Views differ by party and ideology, with a majority of Democrats and liberals saying they have a positive view of socialism, compared to a minority of Republicans and conservatives.

Recently completed the census "long form" that includes demographic information. Sent it in. Received this evening a call from someone saying they are from the Census and they are calling to verify information on the form. I told the heavily accented mexican woman calling that I will not discuss personal information over the phone, that if they want to verify information they can do so by coming by my address and speaking to me directly. She insisted I speak with her. I declined. She then said she can provide me a telephone number to call to verify she is with...

Congregations may look forward to the pastor’s sermon, but when it comes to bringing about a change in their attitudes or lifestyle, preaching appears to have little impact. That is the finding of a new study by the CODEC research center at St. John’s College in Durham, U.K., commissioned by the College of Preachers to mark its 50th anniversary this year. Of the 193 Anglicans, Catholics, Methodists and Baptists surveyed, only 17 percent said sermons frequently changed their attitudes towards others or helped them look afresh at controversial or topical issues. Sixty-two percent of those questioned said sermons frequently gave...

Many legislators are asking people to take their legislative survey on their website...below are some I know of. They tend to cover taxes, abortion, gun laws, education, healthcare, etc. HOUSE http://www.markobenshain.com/ (Obenshain) R http://www.billcleaveland.com/ (Cleaveland) R http://chrispeace.com/ (Peace) R http://jeionward.campaignoffice.com/ (J Ward) D http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e2nwtb0qg3evc78t/a0117g4h29e3g/greeting (D Marshall) R http://survey.house.virginia.gov/Survey.aspx?surveyid=2441 (Lohr) R http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e2nxy1iag3hg94az/a0156g4h3r27c/questions (Plum) D http://survey.house.virginia.gov/Survey.aspx?surveyid=2438 (Kory) D http://survey.house.virginia.gov/Survey.aspx?surveyid=2439 (Sickles) D http://www.surovell2009.com/Constituent-Survey.html (Surovell) D SENATE http://www.senatornorment.com/ (Norment) R www.ryanmcdougle.com (McDougle) R http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e2obi5iog439cg3i/a014zg4h0vw9q/greeting (Ruff)

how much of this form should be completed in order to satisfy the law? it's intrusive. thanks.

Here are some responses politicians holding national office provided to GUNS Magazine when asked to comment on the Second Amendment. An Arizona senator: "THE SECOND AMENDMENT, which guarantees the right of a free people to the possession of arms, is as important today as ever. We who enjoy the pleasure and the challenge of hunting and marksmanship appreciate also that there must be legislation which, effectively administered, will continue to make possible our enjoyment of this privilege while providing protection from those who would abuse it." A Georgia congressman: "IT IS OF VITAL importance that the right of the people...

Only 43 percent of voters surveyed by the Zogby/O'Leary Poll would vote for President Obama less than a year after he was elected, or about the same level of support President Clinton won in 1992 in a three-way race with the first President Bush and former EDS executive and national political gadfly Ross Perot

Please vote. AFTER YOU HAVE VOTED, PLEASE FORWARD ON TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE. [ NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO IS OH SO ANXIOUS TO REPORT OBAMA A WINNER.] If you cannot click on the link, copy and paste and put in your search engine and the poll will come up for you to vote- http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/10/in_white_house_vs_fox_news_war.html