What issue(s) will ultimately decide the presidential election?
FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty:
It's shaping up to be a tight race this November between President Obama and Mitt Romney, especially in some of the crucial swing states.
And new polls show romney closing in on the president in both Florida and Ohio.
The Quinnipiac Poll shows Romney up by one point in Florida: 44-to-43 - and the president up by two in Ohio: 44-to-42. Both are within the sampling error.
In Pennsylvania, President Obama has widened his lead to eight points: 47-to-39
Keep in mind: No one has won the White House since 1960 without carrying at least two of these three states.
Pollsters say some of Romney's gains come from voter perception that he is as good as - or better than - President Obama at fixing the economy.
And it's no secret that for millions of Americans, the economy will be far-and-away issue #1 come November.
A recent Pew Poll shows an overwhelming 86% of registered voters say the economy will be "very important" to their vote, while 84% cite jobs.
According to this poll, other top issues include the budget deficit, health care, education, medicare, energy and taxes.
At the bottom of this list come issues like immigration, abortion, birth control and gay marriage.
It would be a nice change if the politicians took note and stayed away from the wedge issues like abortion and gay marriage this year and instead talked about what really concerns most people.
Meanwhile there are two key Supreme Court decisions due in June which could throw the national focus back on health care and immigration.
Here’s my question to you: What issue(s) will ultimately decide the presidential election?
Interested to know which ones made it on air?
What does it mean when one in seven people think the end of the world is coming?
FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty:
It's the end of the world as we know it - at least for one in seven people worldwide.
A new poll conducted for Reuters shows nearly 15% of people believe the world will end during their lifetime.
And 10% think the end could come as soon as this year - that's based on the end of the 5,100-year-old Mayan calendar that arrives on December 21, 2012.
Pollsters questioned more than 16,000 people in more than 20 countries. It turns out predictions of doom and gloom vary widely depending on where you live.
Only 6% of the French and 8% of the British fear Armageddon in their lifetime compared to 22% in Turkey and right here in the United States.
The Russians and the Poles were most likely to fear the end of the world as coming this year.
Experts say people under 35 and those with lower education or income are more likely to believe in an Apocalypse. Perhaps it’s because those over 35 have lived long enough not to worry about it.
Meanwhile, there have been many End of Days predictions over the years coming from the Chinese, the Egyptians, Native Americans, the Irish, etc.
But for some reason this Mayan Doomsday prediction has attracted millions, maybe even billions, of believers. Hundreds of thousands of websites have popped up devoted to the end-of-the-world fears.
However, experts - including NASA - say there's nothing to it and compare it to the Y2K scare which turned out to be much ado about nothing.
Here’s my question to you: What does it mean when one in seven people think the end of the world is coming?
Interested to know which ones made it on air?
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