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Thousands of British citizens may have received false negatives and been incorrectly told they don't have the coronavirus after receiving negative PCR tests but positive rapid lateral flow device (LFD) exams, according to The Associated Press. The United Kingdom's National Health Service said about 400,000 samples had been processed through a now-suspended testing lab, but 43,000 people may have been given incorrect negative PCR test results between Sept. 8 and Oct. 12, The Guardian reported. The Immensa Health Clinic Ltd. lab in central England has been suspended by the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) after the false negatives amid widespread...

Via the Washington Post: Strongly negative views of Trump have intensified over the past seven months, as the New York billionaire has repeatedly pressed his call to build a wall along the length of the U.S.-Mexico border and seek to deport undocumented immigrants currently residing in the country. Today, 8 in 10 Hispanic voters have an unfavorable view of Trump. That includes more than 7 in 10 who have a "very unfavorable" impression of him, which is more than double the percentage of any other major candidate. Those findings compare with a Univision survey taken around the time of Trump's...

Dear Friend, In this video commentary, I discuss how the Republican nominees must stop the negative campaigning against each other. It’s time for Mitt and Newt to cut it out! The race can go on after Florida, but let’s enforce the Eleventh Commandment — Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican!

It's apparent that the recent media attacks on Sarah Palin have, for the first time, actually drawn blood. Palin's negatives have shot up substantially, rising 7 points from 49% to 56%. The proximate cause is held to be the fact that she defended herself against the charge of complicity in murder in the Tucson shootings, along with engaging in some unclear variety of anti-Semitism by using the term "blood libel." It's safe to say that no other current politician would ever be held to such standards. This slump is surely temporary -- no more permanent than Obama's miniscule "leap" in...

Politics and Proving Negatives It could have been worse. The stimulus saved us from another great depression, right? Unemployment wouldn't go over 8 percent, but when it did, it could have been worse. Second quarter growth in 2010 slowed to 1.6 percent, but it could have been worse. In July home sales dropped 27.2 percent, and for new homes it dropped 12.4 percent, but it could have been worse. The stimulus was going to create millions of jobs, but then it just saved millions of jobs, but it could have been worse. Does anyone else feel duped? This administration has...

Highest level of Strong Disapproval and the lowest Approval Index daily rating yet recorded for this president.

Please feel free to add your own and comment 1. The most hardcore abortion policy of any US president - favors the barbaric practice of late term abortions. His wife asks for people to support late term abortions...read the infamous letter. Infanticide. 2. Dissed the Dali Lama in favor of China. Bad karma dude! 3. Is about to betray US armed forces fighting in Afghanistan as well as the Afghan people by cutting US presence there and making it easier for Taliban to come back full force. 4. Is about to usher socialism and a defective universal health care system...

Rasmussen’s latest tracking poll has some good news for the McCain campaign. In the first tracking poll with post-Palin speech data, John McCain has begun his convention bounce, coming within two points of Barack Obama after being down as many as six this week. And in an ironic twist, Sarah Palin has better favorability numbers than either of them. According to the internals, Palin now has solid favorable majorities from men (65%) and women (52%). Palin also has majority positive favorability ratings in all age demographics and in all income brackets. She also has majorities among conservatives and moderates, while...

And only Only 32% of whites think Obama is "Very Patriotic" versus 77% for McCain. Another little gem. Guess which race will not vote for a black guy? Hmmmm.

Obama: Right Wing to Blame for Wife's Negs Amanda Carpenter In October’s installation of Glamour Magazine, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama blames conservative-leaning media outlets for driving up his wife’s negative ratings. “What happened was that the conservative press — Fox News and the National Review and columnists of every ilk — went fairly deliberately at her in a pretty systematic way,” Obama told Glamour’s editor-in-chief Cindi Leive. The women’s magazine published excerpts of the Obama interview on their political blog Glamocracy on Thursday morning. [Full disclosure, I blog there every Tuesday] “It took a toll,” Obama said. “If you...

What happens if it turns out that we've nominated two unelectable candidates for president? Do we get our money back? This illustration provided by The New Yorker magazine, the cover of the July 21, 2008 issue by artist Barry Blitt, shows Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama dressed as a Muslim and his wife as a terrorist. The magazine says the cover is meant to satirize the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the presidential election to derail Obamas campaign, but Obama's campaign called it "tasteless and offensive." (AP Photo/New Yorker) Logic, common sense and the Constitution insist that either...

Bill Clinton, once his wife's greatest political asset, is now viewed by Barack Obama as such a liability that he is likely to scupper Hillary Clinton's chances of becoming the Democratic vice-presidential candidate. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton: Bill Clinton 'problem' rules out Hillary as Barack Obama's running mate Sources close to the Obama campaign indicated that Mr Clinton's reluctance to disclose who has donated money to his presidential library and even concerns about possible extra-marital affairs mean that his wife would not pass the vetting procedure all potential running mates have to undergo. "It is absolutely standard operating procedure...

OPE. CHANGE. Hope and change. Hope 'n' change. Say the words often enough and they begin to take hold, attaching themselves lichen-like to the psyche. Soon they take on a life of their own and assume human form. He is the one Democrats have been waiting for -- the agent, the beacon, the Everyman who can change the culture of Washington and restore hope to the disenfranchised. He even comes from Hope. Arkansas, that is. Or was. How quickly time passes, how urgently things stay the same. Not so long ago, Bill Clinton was the man of the moment, the...

Obama can't win. It's not that complex, really. He just can't win. A candidate who can't win over his own party certainly can't win over the country. The traits and flaws which make him an unacceptable candidate to roughly a third of Democrats will make him an unacceptable candidate to a majority of Americans. And that's how you lose elections. This isn't meant to bash him, it's just meant to be honest and lay the cards on the table. The nagging question from the Clinton camp -- Why can't he close the deal? -- is legitimate and haunting, and it...

Is it too early for Hillary Rodham Clinton to suggest Barack Obama as her vice president on the ticket? Yes, absolutely. The answer for Clinton, however, appears to depend on your definition of what "smidgen" is. Only "smidgens of difference," she said, separate them in the critical delegate count needed to win the Democratic presidential nomination. The operative word is derived from "smidge," or "barely detectable." For example, the 5,963,110 votes that Florida counted in the 2000 election allowed Gov. Jeb Bush to award his brother George W. a disputed victory. His margin of 537 votes - .0009 percent -...

While Obama supporters fall all over themselves extolling the campaign's "turnaround" following the Wright controversy (evidenced by a Gallup poll published today showing Obama up by three,) I'll just toss out a contrary poll from Scott Rasmussen that shows Hillary up by two -- a swing of three in her direction. And that's not all. On Saturday, Obama’s favorable ratings slipped a little further—46% favorable, 51% unfavorable. Before the Pastor Problem became big news, Obama was viewed favorably by 52%. One month ago, he was viewed favorably by 56%. McCain is viewed favorably by 54% of voters nationwide and...

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton essentially even in the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination. It’s Obama 46% Clinton 45% (see recent daily results). This reflects an unusually sharp change from yesterday’s results when Obama led by eight points and reached the 50% level of support for the first time. Daily tracking results are collected via nightly telephone surveys and reported on a four-day rolling average basis. Last night’s results were very favorable for Clinton and it remains to be seen whether this marks a lasting change in the race...

Just 24% of American voters have a favorable opinion of the New York Times. Forty-four percent (44%) have an unfavorable opinion and 31% are not sure. The paper’s ratings are much like a candidate’s and divide sharply along partisan and ideological lines. By a 50% to 18% margin, liberal voters have a favorable opinion of the paper. By a 69% to 9%, conservative voters offer an unfavorable view. The newspaper earns favorable reviews from 44% of Democrats, 9% of Republicans, and 17% of those not affiliated with either major political story. Of those who followed the story, 66% believe it...

While Hillary Clinton has not found a way to break the consecutive primaries losing streak against Barack Obama, now at 10 or 11 depending on whether one counts the expatriate poll, she has managed to force Obama to talk a little more specifically about policy. That apparently has cost Obama some ground, according to Rasmussen, although not so much against Hillary. His negatives have risen seven points in the last month, and now are ten points higher than those of John McCain: Thirty-four percent (34%) of all voters say they will definitely vote for John McCain if he is on...

Other than the standard; No fire in the belly, he got in too late, and the evil membership in the Council on Foreign Relations, what are his negatives? For the record, I am a Fred Thompson supporter.