Past Polls
- 11/ 5/2009 What current movie title best sums up the state of the Republican Party right now?
- 11/ 3/2009 What 2009 election outcome will have the greatest long term implication?
- 11/ 1/2009 What is the significance of this week's regional elections?
- 10/29/2009 In honor of Halloween, we're calling out the scariest Democrats. Who scares you the most?
- 10/12/2009 How should the Obama administration handle Fox News?
- 10/ 8/2009 What do you think about President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize?
- 10/ 7/2009 What impact do you think Sarah Palin's upcoming memoir Going Rogue will have when it comes out this November?
- 10/ 4/2009 President Obama is reportedly 'angry' at Gen. McChrystal for publicly second guessing him on Afghanistan strategy. What do you think about their clash?
- 10/ 1/2009 What do you think about Roman Polanski’s arrest and its aftermath?
- 9/27/2009 US-Iran talks will take place in Geneva this week. What should President Obama focus on during the negotiations?
- 9/22/2009 Which story do you hope will get the most attention at the G-20 conference this year?
- 9/20/2009 What do you think of President Obama's five back-to-back Sunday morning major-network interviews and his Letterman appearance?
- 9/16/2009 How do you feel about President Carter's remarks about racism directed at Obama?
- 9/13/2009 The ongoing media attention on Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst is...
- 9/ 9/2009 What did you think of President Obama's healthcare speech to Congress?
- 9/ 7/2009 Why did so many parents across America not want President Obama to address the nation's schoolchildren?
- 9/ 1/2009 What should President Obama emphasize in his speech to Congress on healthcare?
- 8/27/2009 How will the loss of Sen. Ted Kennedy affect healthcare reform?
- 8/23/2009 On which issue has the mainstream media done the worst job?
- 8/17/2009 Should progressives support a healthcare bill without a public option?
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I really think President Obama did a phenomenal job when you consider he still has to deal with the gop.
They lost the majority, but they didn't lose their nastiness.
Posted by lyris at 04/25/2009
All the listed events are significant ... for better or worse. But I chose the stimulus plan as most significant because it could have the longest-term impact on more people than the others.
Posted by Garbltoo at 04/25/2009
The stimulus is an encouraging start, but only a start.
The Afghan ramp-up is a discouraging move that we hope won't be the start of a Vietnam redux. But every indication so far is that it will be.
This may prove most significant to Obama as it will damn him to a one-term presidency like LBJ.
Posted by sloper at 04/25/2009
The stimulus, for sure. President Obama has done a lot of good in the first 100 days of his Presidency. That said, I'm still disturbed a few things he's done... and not done. (Refusal to prosecute the authors of torture and continuing a failed "war on terror" in Afghanistan, for example.)
I do have high hopes for the future of America now.
Posted by Pier at 04/27/2009
I chose the release of the torture memos because it says the most about this administration's sense of the relationship that should exist between the government and the government in a representative democracy and how information should flow between the two. It puts the brakes on what has been, at least, a decades long move away from "sunshine" and towards more imperial presidencies.
Additionally, it makes all those high-level hidden hands visible for posterity. And whether it happens on Obama's watch or not, our children and their children--or someone's children--will eventually condemn torture and human rights violations for what they are.
Posted by jcedric at 04/28/2009