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    • CABLE NEWS RACE
      THURS. JAN. 20, 2011

      FOXNEWS O'REILLY 2,918,000
      FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,079,000
      FOXNEWS BAIER 1,940,000
      FOXNEWS SHEP 1,786,000
      FOXNEWS BECK 1,780,000
      FOXNEWS GRETA 1,460,000
      MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,106,000
      CNN PIERS 1,025,000
      MSNBC MADDOW 976,000
      MSNBC O'DONNELL 855,000
      MSNBC SCHULTZ 760,000
      CNN COOPER 740,000
      MSNBC HARDBALL 700,000

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      Fox leading the way again…..

      Bill O with 3 times the viewership from the departed Keith Olbermann

    • This we do know: The U.S. economy created fewer and fewer jobs as the 2000s wore on. Turnover in the job market slowed as workers clung to the positions they held. Job destruction spiked in each of the decade’s two recessions. In contrast to the pattern of past recessions, when many employers recalled laid-off workers after growth picked up again, this time very few of those jobs came back.

      These are the first clues—incomplete, disconcerting, and largely overlooked—to a critical mystery bedeviling a nation struggling to crawl out of near-double-digit unemployment. We know what should have transpired over the past 10 years: the completion of a circle of losses and gains from globalization. Emerging technology helped firms send jobs abroad or replace workers with machines; it should have also spawned domestic investment in innovative industries, companies, and jobs. That investment never happened—not nearly enough of it, in any case.

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      Two words: Outsource, Offshoring

      (tags: unemployment)
  • Mitt Romney,  President 2012

    President 2012: Mitt Romney Wins New Hampshire Republican Party Committee Straw Poll

    Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gives the keynote address at the New Hampshire Republican Party State Convention in Concord, New Hampshire September 25, 2010

    YAWN……

    In the first ever “straw poll” of New Hampshire Republican party committee members sponsored by ABC News and WMUR and sanctioned by the state Republican party, ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney took 35 percent of the 276 valid ballots cast. This is just 3 percent more than Romney took in the 2008 GOP primary, when he finished in second place behind Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

    Coming in a distant second was Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, with 11 percent. Paul took 8 percent in the 2008 GOP primary.

    Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who is spending the early part of next week in the Granite State, came in third with 8 percent.

    In fourth place was ex-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has yet to visit the first-in-the-nation-primary state, with 7 percent.

    This is by no means a scientific sample, but it was a good early canvass of the sentiments of the state’s most active Republican voters.

    The “straw poll” was open only to the 426 registered members of the Republican committee, and 65 percent of those committee members participated.

    This is not really shocking since Romney ran there in 2008 and came in second to John McCain. Also, Mitt has a home in New Hampshire and was Governor of neighboring Massachusetts.

    In 2012, most GOP candidates, meaning Sarah Palin, and Tim Pawlenty will simply ignore New Hampshire and concede Romney the winner. Oh, they might make a few appearances but they won’t run any ads.

    Iowa, South Carolina, Nevada and Florida Presidental cauci and primary elections will decide the nomination.