President Obama's favorability has jumped to a three-year high in the week following his reelection, with 58 percent of Americans now saying they have a positive opinion of the president.
The number represents a three-point improvement for the president since a similar survey conducted by Gallup in the days immediately preceding last week's presidential election. And it is Obama's highest mark since July 2009, when two-thirds of respondents said they had a favorable opinion of the president.
Obama's all-time high point was a 78 percent favorability rating shortly after his inauguration in January 2009.
Interestingly, former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has also earned a bump in popularity since Election Day. The former Massachusetts governor saw his favorability cross [sic - hit] the 50 percent threshold[, tying his personal high from May ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/16/obama-favorable-rating_n_2146615.html )— up from 46 percent before Election Day. That means Romney has actually gained more in his favorability ratings than the president, despite criticism from many in the Republican Party following his loss.
"Americans view both 2012 presidential candidates more positively now that the campaign is over, as Obama turns his attention to governing for the next four years and Romney to a future role outside of presidential politics," Gallup's Jeffrey M. Jones said in a statement.
Romney's bump mirrors that of Sen. John McCain in 2008. The Arizona Republican saw his favorability jump to 64 percent from 60 percent after being defeated in President Obama's first national campaign.
Both the Democratic and Republican parties also saw improvement since the bitter days before the election. Democrats posted a 6-point improvement following their victories on Election Day, improving from 45 to 51 percent. Republicans, meanwhile, gained a point, moving from 42 to 43 percent.
Dick Cheney, said WW111 started after 9/11 didn't he? Anyway we know those who want one aren't religious end-time zealots and/or conservative neocons ..
BBC News Remembers Cuba Missile Crisis October 25, 2012
............ Cuba missile crisis: When nuclear war seemed inevitable
By Jo Fidgen - 24 October 2012
Fifty years ago, the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war, after the USSR deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba. Many ordinary people feared the worst, and so, it appears, did those closely involved – both in the East and the West.[…]
Back then fall-out shelters were on everybody’s lips. You needed your personal fall-out shelter. Look at the below picture of Americans trying to stay alive by building their fall-out shelter. This picture is a part of BBC’s news story.
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The US government advised using sand-filled bricks for fallout shelters ............
And listen to this: ............
In October 1962, CIA official Dino Brugioni wrote a farewell letter to his wife and instructed her to open it only if he told her to do so.
He was well placed to know just how serious the situation was. Based in the National Photographic Interpretation Centre, his job was to prepare briefings for President John F Kennedy on surveillance pictures of Cuba.
“Those photographs meant a crisis,” he recalls. ............
You can tell from this news story, that America, back then, had a deep respect for nuclear war. Listen:
............ “But I had seen atomic blasts and I knew the destruction they had left, and I felt sure that Washington would be a target.” ............
That was still CIA official Dino Brugioni talking.
Now listen to modern day Dick Cheney and George W. Bush:
Do responsible politicians go “big-mouthing” about nuclear war without preparing their country-men for such an eventuality? Color coded terrorist alerts won’t come close to what is needed if opposing countries takes the neocons up on their war-mongering.
Bombshell: WWIII Starts Sept. 25th Says Former State Dept. Veteran
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 6:53
Posted by Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul on Sep 18, 2012
Speaking with Infowars’ Alex Jones, former Assistant Deputy Secretary of State Dr. Steve Pieczenik says Israel plans to attack Iran before the U.S. elections of Nov. 6., and, that an attack on Iran will assuredly kickoff WWIII, according to him.
Moreover, Pieczenik, a man whose career inspired the character Jack Ryan of the Tom Clancy book series, says the ‘October Surprise’ will not take place in October. Instead, the big surprise will come earlier, in late September.
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