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More U.S. Adults Embrace Texting, Survey Finds A survey released Thursday found that U.S. adults are following teens in embracing text messaging, with 72 percent of adults saying they have sent or received text messages compared with 65 percent in a September 2009 survey. Adults, however, still have a ways to go to catch up to the 87 percent of teens who reported using their mobile phones for texting. In addition, the May 2010 survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project also found teens far outpace adults in the number of text messages they send in a day, the survey found. Teens send on average Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 9:37am
GOP Polls: Bad News For Dems Out West Another week, another batch of polls from the conservative American Action Network that show Democratic House incumbents in trouble. This week, the group focused on 10 districts in the West. The group surveyed 400 voters in each of the following districts: AZ-01, AZ 05, AZ-08, CA-11, CA-47, CO-03, CO-04, NM-01, NV-03 and OR-05. There was a margin of error of +/-4.9% in each individual poll. Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 8:07am
Latinos Blame Both Parties On Immigration Reform More than a third of Latino voters blame both parties in Congress for not trying hard enough to pass immigration reform, and Latino enthusiasm for voting in this year's mid-term elections is down, a new poll shows. Those findings of an election-year tracking poll by Latino Decisions -- released this week and to be updated weekly -- underscore Latino voter dismay over the lack of progress on immigration, an issue that ranks second in importance to them, behind the economy, says one analyst. Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 7:53am
Starting Lineup: Focus On Fiorina Good Thursday morning and welcome to the Starting Lineup. On tap today: Carly Fiorina emerges from a nasty debate as a legitimate contender, Castle's dilemma in Delaware, '12 GOP contenders flock to Iowa, and another round of bad House projections for Dems. Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 6:55am
Obama's Unofficial Kickoff President Obama on Tuesday assiduously avoided any appearance of declaring the mission in Iraq accomplished, but his second Oval Office address may be remembered as vividly as his predecessor's aircraft carrier speech, albeit for a very different reason: Tuesday was the moment Obama turned toward his own re-election bid. Obama's address was aimed at claiming credit for a key campaign promise, but it was also an acknowledgment that the hardest part of his presidency -- revitalizing an economy that stubbornly refuses to recover -- lies ahead. Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 6:00am
GOP Leaders Getting Around Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 12:00am
How Neutral Is The Internet? Whether the Internet is truly a democratic forum was called into question this week in a dispute about Internet traffic management between AT&T and the consumer advocacy group Free Press.The feud boiled down to what it means to have "paid prioritization," a phenomenon viewed as anathema by advoca Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 12:00am
Lawmakers Respond to Net Neutrality Proceedings In response to the FCC's announcement to seek further comment on net neutrality issues, key lawmakers pushed their agenda on Internet regulation. FCC chairman Julius Genachowski should put his plans to reclassify broadband "on the shelf indefinitely," said Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., the ranking member on the Commerce Committee's Communications Subcommittee. Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - 6:50pm
Steve Stivers' Path To Victory In OH 15 Welcome back to Hotline On Call's "Path To Victory," where we dive into some of the most competitive races this cycle and look at how each side plans to win. This week: Ohio's 15th District, where former state Sen. Steve Stivers (R) is facing Rep.Mary Jo Kilroy (D) in a rematch of one of the most expensive and nastiest races of the '08 cycle. Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - 4:37pm
White House To Meet With ICANN On Illegal Online Pharmacies The White House has called a meeting for later this month with the group that manages the Internet's domain name system to discuss ways to crack down on illegal online pharmacies. The meeting with officials from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will take place Sept. 29 with White House Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel and other White House and agency officials, a spokeswoman for the White House Office of Management and Budget confirmed. Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - 4:03pm

More U.S. Adults Embrace Texting, Survey Finds

A survey released Thursday found that U.S. adults are following teens in embracing text messaging, with 72 percent of adults saying they have sent or received text messages compared with 65 percent in a September 2009 survey. Adults, however, still have a ways to go to catch up to the 87 percent of teens who reported using their mobile phones for texting. In addition, the May 2010 survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project also found teens far outpace adults in the number of text messages they send in a day, the survey found. Teens send on average

Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 9:37am

GOP Polls: Bad News For Dems Out West

Another week, another batch of polls from the conservative American Action Network that show Democratic House incumbents in trouble. This week, the group focused on 10 districts in the West.

The group surveyed 400 voters in each of the following districts: AZ-01, AZ 05, AZ-08, CA-11, CA-47, CO-03, CO-04, NM-01, NV-03 and OR-05. There was a margin of error of +/-4.9% in each individual poll.

Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 8:07am

Latinos Blame Both Parties On Immigration Reform

More than a third of Latino voters blame both parties in Congress for not trying hard enough to pass immigration reform, and Latino enthusiasm for voting in this year's mid-term elections is down, a new poll shows.

Those findings of an election-year tracking poll by Latino Decisions -- released this week and to be updated weekly -- underscore Latino voter dismay over the lack of progress on immigration, an issue that ranks second in importance to them, behind the economy, says one analyst.

Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 7:53am

Starting Lineup: Focus On Fiorina

Good Thursday morning and welcome to the Starting Lineup. On tap today: Carly Fiorina emerges from a nasty debate as a legitimate contender, Castle's dilemma in Delaware, '12 GOP contenders flock to Iowa, and another round of bad House projections for Dems.

Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 6:55am

Obama's Unofficial Kickoff

President Obama on Tuesday assiduously avoided any appearance of declaring the mission in Iraq accomplished, but his second Oval Office address may be remembered as vividly as his predecessor's aircraft carrier speech, albeit for a very different reason: Tuesday was the moment Obama turned toward his own re-election bid.

Obama's address was aimed at claiming credit for a key campaign promise, but it was also an acknowledgment that the hardest part of his presidency -- revitalizing an economy that stubbornly refuses to recover -- lies ahead.

Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 6:00am

GOP Leaders Getting Around

Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 12:00am

How Neutral Is The Internet?

Whether the Internet is truly a democratic forum was called into question this week in a dispute about Internet traffic management between AT&T and the consumer advocacy group Free Press.The feud boiled down to what it means to have "paid prioritization," a phenomenon viewed as anathema by advoca

Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 12:00am

Lawmakers Respond to Net Neutrality Proceedings

In response to the FCC's announcement to seek further comment on net neutrality issues, key lawmakers pushed their agenda on Internet regulation. FCC chairman Julius Genachowski should put his plans to reclassify broadband "on the shelf indefinitely," said Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., the ranking member on the Commerce Committee's Communications Subcommittee.

Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - 6:50pm

Steve Stivers' Path To Victory In OH 15

Welcome back to Hotline On Call's "Path To Victory," where we dive into some of the most competitive races this cycle and look at how each side plans to win.

This week: Ohio's 15th District, where former state Sen. Steve Stivers (R) is facing Rep.Mary Jo Kilroy (D) in a rematch of one of the most expensive and nastiest races of the '08 cycle.

Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - 4:37pm

White House To Meet With ICANN On Illegal Online Pharmacies

The White House has called a meeting for later this month with the group that manages the Internet's domain name system to discuss ways to crack down on illegal online pharmacies. The meeting with officials from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will take place Sept. 29 with White House Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel and other White House and agency officials, a spokeswoman for the White House Office of Management and Budget confirmed.

Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - 4:03pm

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