Tuesday, February 9, 2010
News Morning Newsdome: Japanese girls with cell phones save print industry
Posted by Bobby Feingold @senorbobby on Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:49 PM
>> Forty-seven percent of registered voters are not happy with President Obama's performance--his lowest rating since taking office. Independents polled that approve of the president dropped from 53% last April to barely a third. The jocks, nerds and outcasts are all disapproving--but there's always the drama kids, Barack! (the Huffington Post)
>> The President met with House and Senate leaders of both parties today to discuss issues like the economy in a bipartisan setting. Two bucks says this publicity stunt ended in a food fight. (ABC News)
>> A Colorado Wal-Mart is being accused of firing ten West African employees in order to give jobs to "local" people. The Muslim Africans were refused short prayer breaks, though other workers were allowed to take unscheduled cigarette breaks. Don't they get it--cigarette breaks are blessings. (the New York Times)
>>A fifteen-year-old Japanese girl who goes by the alias "Bunny" wrote a three-volume "keitai" or cell phone novel that has gone on to sell more than 110,000 paperback copies--grossing more than $611,000! See--print isn't dead! (the LA Times)
>> And finally: Researchers found that a 40-year-old woman's risk of having a child with autism was 50 percent greater than that of a woman in her twenties, but being a father 40 or older is only at significant risk when the mother is under 30. Sounds legit since autism studies are always true. (Reuters)
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Actually, Gallup has Obama at 51% approval and 41% disapproval (3 day rolling average). The realclear politics average of all polls shows approval 48% v. 46.9, although that includes Rasmussen, which has problems. The Marist poll is what's called an "outlier".
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