President Obama’s approval rating and the Facebook IPO

    Frank Newport, Editor in Chief of the Gallup Poll, joins NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller to break down what American’s are thinking. This weeks topics:

     

    Florida primary is now behind us… although as Newt Gingrich says, there are 46 states to go – including Nevada tomorrow (Saturday)…..Is Romney the inevitable nominee?
    Whoever wins the GOP nomination will have face Barack Obama….Gallup is out this week with its list of Obama job approval ratings for 2011 in all 50 states….which states gave Obama the highest ratings and which states gave him the lowest ratings?
    And, what about Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey?
    More generally, what’s the latest update on what Obama’s job approval rating tells us about his re-election chances next November?
    Sec’y of Defense Leon Panetta said on Wednesday that the U.S. will leave Afghanistan by 2013…..what do Americans think about the war there?
    Facebook’s IPO announcement is sure to create an instant class of new paper millionaires….some 800 million users worldwide — how many Americans use Facebook? How age-skewed is it? Do women use Facebook more than men?

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