Greeks hit back after ‘humiliation’ by IMF chief

via MSN:

“Nobody can humiliate the Greek people during the crisis, and I say this today addressing specifically Ms. Lagarde… who with her stance insulted the Greek people,” Evangelos Venizelos told an election rally.

Lagarde told Britain’s Guardian newspaper in an interview published Friday that Greeks must “help themselves collectively” by all paying their taxes, saying she was more concerned about sub-Saharan Africans in poverty than Greeks hit by the economic crisis.

Her [...]

Santorum stand on social issues draws scrutiny

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans don’t share Rick Santorum’s absolutist take on abortion. He’s out of step on women in combat. He questions the values of the two-thirds of mothers who work. He’s even troubled by something as commonplace as birth control – for married couples.

Even among a Republican presidential field eager to please religious conservatives, Santorum’s ideas stand out.

A Catholic father of seven whose kids are home-schooled, Santorum may [...]

With a year to go until the presidential election, voters are tiring of the drug war

FOR most of Felipe Calderón’s four-and-a-half years as Mexico’s president, voters have worried more about jobs than crime. Since 2001 average income growth per person has been below 1% a year, one of the lowest rates in the world. Whereas the drug war has raged mainly along the cocaine trail, with two-thirds of its estimated 40,000 killings occurring in just 3% of the country’s municipalities, [...]

Trump has little shot against Obama in 2012, poll shows

Donald Trump may be leading a wide field of potential Republican presidential candidates in the polls, but he has little chance of actually reaching the White House, a new poll showed Tuesday.

Some 64 percent of general election voters — including 46 percent of Republican voters — would “definitely not vote for” the reality television star, according to a USA Today/Gallup survey. That was the [...]

A new study released by the University of Maryland shows American voters to be vastly misinformed.

by neuroscientist

Even worse, the same study points to the media as the cause of much of this misinformation. The study involved a poll of 616 self-reported voters in the week after the 2010 midterm election. Voters were asked where they get their news from, and then asked about a number of verifiable facts. For instance, voters were asked whether the TARP program, otherwise known as the bailout, was started [...]