Election Day 2012 is officially one year away, and if one thing is certain, it is that Americans' disapproval of government is at an all-time high. A recent New York Times/CBS News poll found that 89 percent of Americans do not trust the government and 84 percent disapprove of Congress. The numbers are reason for alarm on both sides of the aisle. As he tries to secure a second term, President Obama must contend with a possibly lethal combination of high unemployment numbers and low approval ratings. The news is not much better for Republicans. Seven out of ten Americans believe the GOP's policies favor the rich.
Todd Zwillich, The Takeaway’s Washington correspondent, and Anna Sale, political correspondent for WNYC's politics website, It’s a Free Country, preview the next year of presidential politics.
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What day do US Senators who are (re)elected in November 2012 take their oath office for the new term?
Speaking of "a whole lot of hatred," didn't Occupy DC protesters thuggishly harassed attendees of a conservative event at the convention center including the assault of an elderly woman this weekend and not one word about it here from our journalists?
"Has it become....a movement of the middle"
Well this where journalism comes in to answer that question and it has failed miserably in its job of informing the public and perhaps giving into a political agenda. Does middle America identify with mass arrests, assaults, and vandalism?
OWS in New York has degenerated from a protest into something very sinister where women only safety tents have now become a necessity and the squalor of human effluvia is becoming a serious safety hazard and this is a common problem with other nationwide Occupy protests.
Is this something "the working class" can embrace and support? Are news worthy stories like this of lawlessness, intimidation and violence being downplayed in the media for political reasons?
Why is a menacing mob and their creepy chants of narrsassetic lies like "We are the 99 Percent" and "This is what Democrcy looks like" being given every benefit of the doubt by the news media? Wasn't the real "movement of the middle" the law abiding Tea Party movement which worked though the system and persuaded the public to vote for their candidates while being defamed by the same media which averts their eyes from the Occupiers disgraceful and criminal excesses?
Could it be this is not intellectually honest journalism anymore but something else?
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