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Do the Math: Santorum's Best Shot May Be Gingrich's Remaining in the Race

Rick Santorum's Dixie double has renewed calls from supporters and pundits for Newt Gingrich to drop out of the Republican presidential primary and allow Santorum a proper one-on-one duel with frontrunner Mitt Romney.

But the conventional wisdom may be falling flat in the face of simple math.

Even after Tuesday night's results, Romney leads the race to the nomination-clinching 1,144 delegates by an overwhelming margin -?496 to second-place Santorum's 252. Newt Gingrich, in third place, ahead of Ron Paul's 48, has won 133. So with just over 40 percent of the delegates awarded, it would take, as Romney's aides say, "an act of God" to see their man lose his lead.

Given Santorum's significant delegate deficit, his best hope of consolidating the more conservative vote - and more importantly, the resulting delegates - is to have Gingrich stay in the game all the way to the convention floor in Tampa, Fla.

Waiting on the Lord may be an option for Team Santorum, but ganging up with Gingrich might be the better play. If the former Speaker's campaign keeps amassing delegates, Gingrich could accrue enough support that, when coupled with Santorum's, the total meets or exceeds that of the current frontrunner.

"The key to Santorum's strategy is to keep Romney's delegate count low and keep Santorum close," says GOP strategist Soren Dayton, who worked with a number of current Santorum advisers on the McCain campaign in 2008. While Santorum would rather go it alone in some winner-take-all states like Wisconsin and Maryland (April 3), having Gingrich in the running supports the broader strategy.

Whatever the plan, an official Santorum-Gingrich alliance remains unlikely, according to another Republican operative. Convention floor shenanigans require the organization and management of a lot of moving pieces, and even with the Speaker vowing to take the fight to Tampa, there's some doubt anyone in the current field is capable of marshalling all his delegates in such a tense and chaotic setting.

Still, if Gingrich were to leave the race now or in the coming weeks, not only would this option go out the window, but there's no evidence in current polling that Santorum would benefit from the fallout. The myth of the "Gingtorum" vote seems to be just that. Polls done last night showed no indication that the Gingrich vote would flock, en masse, to Santorum if their guy were to drop out. In fact, most of the figures show that Gingrich and Santorum voters go to the polls for very different reasons.

"Gingrich won voters in both states focused on the candidate with the best experience to serve as president," writes Gary Langer, ABC News poll maven and Langer Research Associates president, "and experience, as in previous states, was weak for Santorum."

In the case of Gingrich's theoretical departure, one can reasonably expect his supporters to do one of four things - flip to Santorum; turn to Romney; jump on board with Paul; or just avoid the ballot box altogether. That kind of fracture would do little to change the dynamic of the race.

"The nomination is an impossibility for Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich," a Romney campaign strategist told reporters a week ago in Boston. But Gingrich himself disagrees, telling?ABC News Senior Political Correspondent Jonathan Karl on Tuesday night,?"We're actually helping because between us - Santorum? AND I - are stopping Romney."

He can certainly try - he's promised he will, one way or another - ?but as one GOP consultant who worked with the Perry campaign this season told ABC News with a sigh, "Romney is going to be our candidate. I can't see anyway he will not be. We should all get behind him and make the best of it."

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Glittering jewels of Messier 9

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Messier 9, pictured here, is a globular cluster, a roughly spherical swarm of stars that lies around 25 000 light-years from Earth, near the centre of the Milky Way, so close that the gravitational forces from the galactic centre pull it slightly out of shape.

Globular clusters are thought to harbour some of the oldest stars in our galaxy, born when the Universe was just a small fraction of its current age. As well as being far older than the Sun around twice its age the stars of Messier 9 also have a markedly different composition, and are enriched with far fewer heavier elements than the Sun.

In particular, the elements crucial to life on Earth, like oxygen and carbon, and the iron that makes up our planet's core, are very scarce in Messier 9 and clusters like it. This is because the Universe's heavier elements were gradually formed in the cores of stars, and in supernova explosions. When the stars of Messier 9 formed, there were far smaller quantities of these elements in existence.

Messier 9, as its name suggests, was discovered by the great French astronomer Charles Messier in 1764. Even through the most advanced telescopes of the day, none of the stars in the cluster could be seen individually. Messier, seeing only a faint smudge, therefore classified the object as a nebula or "cloud" in Latin. It was only later in the 18th century that astronomers, most notably William Herschel, began to spot stars within the cluster.

The contrast between Messier's equipment and the tools at the disposal of today's astronomers is stark. Hubble's image, the highest resolution image yet made of Messier 9, is able to resolve individual stars, right into the crowded centre of the cluster. Over 250 000 of them are neatly focused on the detector of Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys, in an image which covers an area no bigger than the size of the head of a pin held at arm's length.

As well as showing the individual stars, Hubble's image clearly shows the different colours of the stars. A star's colour is directly related to its temperature counter-intuitively, perhaps, the redder it is, the cooler it is; and the bluer it is, the hotter. The wide range of stellar temperatures here is clearly displayed by the broad palette of colours visible in Hubble's image of Messier 9.

Messier 9's neighbourhood is interesting too, and is marked by two vast and dark nebulae. These pitch-black clouds of interstellar dust are known as Barnard 259 (to the south-east of Messier 9) and Barnard 64 (to the west), and are clearly visible in wide-field images of the cluster.

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The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.

Image credit: NASA & ESA

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Messier 9, pictured here, is a globular cluster, a roughly spherical swarm of stars that lies around 25 000 light-years from Earth, near the centre of the Milky Way, so close that the gravitational forces from the galactic centre pull it slightly out of shape.

Globular clusters are thought to harbour some of the oldest stars in our galaxy, born when the Universe was just a small fraction of its current age. As well as being far older than the Sun around twice its age the stars of Messier 9 also have a markedly different composition, and are enriched with far fewer heavier elements than the Sun.

In particular, the elements crucial to life on Earth, like oxygen and carbon, and the iron that makes up our planet's core, are very scarce in Messier 9 and clusters like it. This is because the Universe's heavier elements were gradually formed in the cores of stars, and in supernova explosions. When the stars of Messier 9 formed, there were far smaller quantities of these elements in existence.

Messier 9, as its name suggests, was discovered by the great French astronomer Charles Messier in 1764. Even through the most advanced telescopes of the day, none of the stars in the cluster could be seen individually. Messier, seeing only a faint smudge, therefore classified the object as a nebula or "cloud" in Latin. It was only later in the 18th century that astronomers, most notably William Herschel, began to spot stars within the cluster.

The contrast between Messier's equipment and the tools at the disposal of today's astronomers is stark. Hubble's image, the highest resolution image yet made of Messier 9, is able to resolve individual stars, right into the crowded centre of the cluster. Over 250 000 of them are neatly focused on the detector of Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys, in an image which covers an area no bigger than the size of the head of a pin held at arm's length.

As well as showing the individual stars, Hubble's image clearly shows the different colours of the stars. A star's colour is directly related to its temperature counter-intuitively, perhaps, the redder it is, the cooler it is; and the bluer it is, the hotter. The wide range of stellar temperatures here is clearly displayed by the broad palette of colours visible in Hubble's image of Messier 9.

Messier 9's neighbourhood is interesting too, and is marked by two vast and dark nebulae. These pitch-black clouds of interstellar dust are known as Barnard 259 (to the south-east of Messier 9) and Barnard 64 (to the west), and are clearly visible in wide-field images of the cluster.

###

Notes

The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.

Image credit: NASA & ESA

Links

- Images of Hubble: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/category/spacecraft/

Contacts

Oli Usher
Hubble/ESA
Garching bei Mnchen, Germany
Tel: +49-89-3200-6855
Email: ousher@eso.org


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Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleThis is an Australian produced film, but the principles carry.

I would not focus on land to the exclusion of financial assets like stocks, and other vehicles for producing income and capital gains, that allow speculators to game the system.

The US internet bubble for example, had nothing to do with land per se. And the Florida land boom in the US preceded by several years the stock market boom that led to the Crash of 1929.

And it was financialization, the application of fraudulent valuation and securitization leverage, that gave the US credit bubble its kick.

Financialization permits the transmission of the speculation to a broader audience, in the most recent collapse a global audience, and widens the scope and duration of the Ponzi scheme through its interlocking web of counter party risks.

The most common thread in destructive bubbles is official complicity, often seen in regulatory capture, and the almost willful suspension of disbelief achieved through influence in the media and the steady application of messaging, often so intense that it borders on overt propaganda.

Certainly it does involve the silencing of whistleblowers and critics through access denial, ridicule, and other forms of soft censorship. And if it is followed by the obstruction of justice so that the perpetrators may go forward unimpeded, they will work their cons and carny magic on something else again.

If this simple explanation of speculation does not have a sufficient pedigree, perhaps this more refined and weighty pronouncement from the Bank of England may serve to persuade.

"Under one equilibrium, patience wins the day. When long-term investors start in the ascendancy, prices tend to correct towards fundamentals. The performance of untested investors pursuing momentum strategies falters, while those pursuing longterm strategies flourish. The fraction of long-term investors rises. The self-correcting tendencies of market prices are thus reinforced, further supporting long-term investors. The patience gene thrives, the impatience gene dies. Natural selection results in a self-improving cycle, as with dieting, happiness and exercise.

But there is a second equilibrium where this cycle operates in reverse gear. With a large fraction of momentum traders, prices deviate persistently from fundamentals. Among untested investors, momentum strategies now flourish while long-term fundamentalists fail. The speculative balance of investors rises, increasing the degree of misalignment in prices. The patience gene falls into terminal decline. Natural selection results in a self-destructive cycle, as with drug, alcohol and food addiction."

Andrew G. Haldane, Patience and Finance


And it is the government and the regulators, the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, the FSA, SEC and CFTC for example, whose sworn duty it is to protect the financial markets from the ravages of rampant speculation and fraud. And such a condition cannot occur unless they do not honor their oaths, for whatever reasons they may wish to provide.

The reliability of self-regulation is a fairy tale for dreamers and fools.

The bottom line is that when speculation is allowed to flourish unchecked, whether through laxity or complicity or both, there is the inevitable and corrosive mispricing of risk that leads to disparity of fortune between the perpetrators and their marks, and the inevitable economic collapse as rude reality intrudes once again.

While greed and gullibility act in partnership, it never gets old.

Didn't quite catch their trick that last two times? Watch as they do it again.

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?The commercial world is very frequently put into confusion by the bankruptcy of merchants, that assumed the splendour of wealth only to obtain the privilege of trading with the stock of other men, and of contracting debts which nothing but lucky casualties could enable them to pay; till after having supported their appearance a while by tumultuary magnificence of boundless traffic, they sink at once, and drag down into poverty those whom their equipages had induced to trust them."

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Fed gives mostly high grades in bank stress tests

(Reuters) - Most of the largest banks passed their annual stress test, according to the Federal Reserve, in a conservative report card that underscored the recovery of the financial sector but called out a few laggards, including Citigroup.

The Fed announced the results in an earlier-than-expected release on Tuesday. JPMorgan Chase pulled the trigger on announcing its own glowing marks before the Fed's release, and helped lift the stock market.

But the failing grade for Citigroup, the nation's third-largest bank, was a shock. Going into the tests some analysts felt it had a better chance of a positive surprise than any other financial institution.

The Fed said on Tuesday that 15 of the 19 banks tested would have enough capital, even if they suffered a financial shock that would see unemployment hit 13 percent and housing prices drop 21 percent.

The results paved the way for many of the passing banks to announce highly anticipated plans to boost dividends and buy back stock.

The outcome showed a middle-of-the-road approach. The Fed failed enough banks to give the tests credibility and to elicit industry outcries about the tests being too tough, but it reassured markets that the U.S. bank industry is generally healthy.

"Overall, we can't complain that these tests weren't rigorous enough, and it's good to know that most banks would at least survive another global financial meltdown," said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics in Toronto.

MetLife, the largest life insurer in the United States, was also among the four financial institutions that failed the exam, which applied worst-case stress scenarios looking out through the end of 2013.

Ally Financial and SunTrust were also at the bottom of the heap.

Among the winners was JPMorgan, which has been agitating for regulators to loosen the handcuffs on the ability of banks to raise dividends and buy back stock.

The Fed uses the annual stress tests to give the markets a window into the health of the U.S. bank industry, and also determine if individual banks are strong enough to reduce their capital buffers.

Bank of America, the nation's second-largest bank, passed the Fed's test, but it did not ask for a dividend increase or to buy back shares. Last year, the Fed rejected the bank's request for a dividend hike, in a major embarrassment for Chief Executive Brian Moynihan.

FIRST OUT THE GATES

JPMorgan, in a surprise to markets, announced around 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) that the Fed had given it permission to raise its dividend by 20 percent and spend as much as $12 billion buying back stock this year.

The news helped the U.S. stock market post its best day this year.

The Fed had been scheduled to release the test results after markets closed on Thursday. A person close to the situation, who was not authorized to speak on the record, said the Fed quietly shifted the release to 4:30 p.m. EDT (2030 GMT) on Tuesday after leaks about the tests came out Monday evening.

The person said that at noon on Tuesday, there was a miscommunication between JPMorgan and the Fed over the hour of JPMorgan's own release.

A senior Federal Reserve official told reporters that the timing of JPMorgan's announcement was the result of less-than-perfect communication, and that nobody at JPMorgan was at fault.

Regarding the outcome of the tests, the Fed official said the capital positions of U.S. banks has improved substantially in the last three years.

U.S. regulators first ran a stress test in 2009 in a bid to show markets during the financial crisis that banks' balance sheets were better than some thought.

The Fed took a tough line with the banks this year, and in a number of instances, the central bank's estimates of banks' losses under the hypothetical financial shock were larger than the firms' own, the Fed official said.

Frank Keating, president of the American Bankers Association, said the bank industry objects to stress tests under theoretical conditions that are worse than what occurred during the financial crisis.

"It unjustifiably prohibits some institutions from paying dividends to shareholders and could potentially impair their ability to raise capital and make loans. That is an unnecessary and ill-timed consequence of these stress tests given the essential role of banks in our still-recovering economy," Keating said.

Citigroup did not dispute the Fed's decision and said it would submit a revised capital proposal later this year. Some analysts had expected Citigroup to win permission to raise its dividend to as much as 10 cents from a penny a share.

In one sign of its weakness, Citigroup had the second-highest total loan loss rate under the stress scenario, behind Capital One, the Fed said.

WINNERS AND LOSERS

The Fed released 82 pages of detailed information showing how the 19 banks fared under the hypothetical stress scenario.

The regulator left it to the banks themselves to reveal if they had received permission to boost dividends or buy back stock.

The Fed said Citigroup, Ally Financial and SunTrust fared worst under the hypothetical shock, and that their minimum Tier 1 common capital ratios would hit lows of 4.9 percent, 2.5 percent, and 4.8 percent respectively.

Banks that did not get the rulings they wanted saw their shares fall sharply after the market closed. Citigroup, for example, lost 3.5 percent in after-hours trading.

"It was very surprising that JPMorgan can pretty much do what it wants while some of the other guys fail," said Paul Miller, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets. "We were worried about anybody that was not making a lot of money, and this takes away a lot of any upside potential for SunTrust and Citi."

MetLife failed the stress tests on the basis of its risk-based capital ratio. At a 6 percent minimum, it was lower than any of the other banks examined.

The bank holding companies whose balance sheets weathered the hypothetical storm best were Bank of New York Mellon with a Tier 1 common capital ratio of 13.1 percent, State Street Corp with 12.5 percent and American Express with 10.8 percent.

Wells Fargo, U.S. Bancorp, BB&T, American Express, KeyCorp, PNC, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Bank of New York Mellon said they had received permission to boost dividends or repurchase shares.

(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Additional reporting by David Henry, Rick Rothacker, Ben Berkowitz, Alexandra Alper, Dave Clarke; Writing by Karey Wutkowski; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)

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Contemporary theorizing on business enterprise ethics is been predominantly approached by way of a normative method. Getting create das a branch of common ethics, organization ethics focuses on the moral adequacy of corporate activities. In this context, it can be usually argued that managers are obliged to pay extra attention towards the moral implications of their actions. The concern concerning the moral inadequacy of selection taken by enterprise leaders is argued when employing examples of corporate scandals, industrial accidents and environmental disasters. Indeed, these examples as well as countless other people, indicate the reckless behaviour of some managers, which influences negatively the life of large groups of people.

Nevertheless, organization ethics needs over the mere use of rhetoric arguments in favour of morality in business enterprise. As per the leaders a lot more attention really should be devoted to addressing the managerial dangers of business ethics. Small business specialists quarrel additional intensely over corporate social responsibility than possibly something else. Social responsibility would be the doctrine that business enterprise, governments, individuals or other such entities possess a moral obligation to promote the positive welfare or not infringe upon the rights or property of other individuals, or each. Commonly speaking, ethics would be the study of what constitute very good and bad conduct like the values that influence conduct. Not too long ago, we?ve seen a lot emphasis placed on corporate social responsibility and marketing ethics.

There are several ethical troubles in marketing. Ethical problems in marketing practices incorporate troubles in buying, product improvement, retailing, salesperson, advertising, international marketing, and marketing education. The practice of ethical marketing has the capability not merely to handle the aforementioned troubles but in addition the potential to enhance consumer wellbeing. Therefore, ethical marketing can raise its positive impact by supplying shoppers with goods and services which could boost their general good quality of life.

Ethical marketing can cut down its unfavorable influence by providing shoppers with goods and solutions which might be safe-to the buyers themselves, to other publics, and also the atmosphere. The firm will need to deliver superior value to buyers in a way that maintains or improves the customer?s plus the society?s well-being. The traditional marketing idea overlooks probable conflicts between consumer short-run desires and consumer long-run welfare.

Well-being marketing is known as a enterprise philosophy that guides managers to develop and implement marketing techniques that focuses on enhancing consumer well-being through the consumer/product life cycle and to complete so safely in relation to buyers, other publics, and the atmosphere. Consumer well=being is defined as a desired state of objective and subjective nicely becoming involved in the various stages of the consumer/product life cycle in relation to consumer goods.

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I tried to trade in my 2005 RX 8 with 15 000 miles on it and they offered me whole sale/auction sale although the car is in a great condition. What can I do to contradict their argument ?we can get this at an auction? but the transaction is a trade-in. Please help !

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Sell it privately.

You won?t be able to convince the dealer to pay more than the amount they can buy a similar car for at an auction ? they are not in the business of paying out extra money for no reason.

A private buyer will be willing to pay closer to the retail value of the car, so you?ll get a better amount for your car, and at the same time they?re paying less for it than they would have to pay at a dealer.

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Israel issues travel warning on Turkey

JERUSALEM (AP) ? Israel is calling on its citizens to stay away from Turkey because of intelligence warning of imminent attacks against sites frequented by Jews and Israelis there.

The prime minister's counterterrorism office issued the warning late Tuesday. It said "terror groups are planning to carry out attacks against Jewish and Israeli sites inside Turkey in the coming days."

Last month Israel blamed Iran for attacks in Thailand and India. An Israeli diplomat's wife was wounded in India.

Israel and Turkey were once close allies, but in recent years Turkey has preferred closer ties with the Arab and Muslim world, cooling its relations with Israel. There have been several high-profile spats between the two.

Turkey was a popular tourist destination for Israelis, but that has sharply declined.

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The public conversation around electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) is heating up, as these tobacco substitutes, thought by many to be the miracle cure for smoking cessation, are the subject of studies, legislation, and policy-making. Proponents of electronic cigarettes are adamant that they provide a safe alternative to traditional tobacco products, while opponents indicate concern that they could pose other health risks, particularly to children, who might view them as an acceptable and legal way to participate in cigarette culture.

Specifically, electronic cigarettes are made in the same shape as regular cigarettes. They are battery powered to heat liquid held internally, which produces a flavored nicotine mist when users inhale, similar to a nebulizer or a humidifier. The liquid is based in propylene glycol or glycerin, and it has no offensive odor. Users experience the same physical feelings as equivalent amounts of nicotine are delivered, making them a popular alternative to such products as nicotine patches, lozenges, and gum.

Although they need an initial outlay that can be quite pricey, the majority of vapor cigarettes are reusable, with parts that can be replaced and refilled. The liquid is held in a cartridge, which is also the component placed in the mouth. This is attached to an atomizer that contains the heating element. In order to keep liquid from moving through the cartridge into the user?s mouth, the internal design includes an absorbent sponge inside the cartridge. On the other end, a filament and wicking metal mesh draw the liquid towards the atomizer for vaporization. It is this filament that often stops working first on reusable models, and must be replaced, as material builds up or the component burns out altogether.

Disposable cartomizers are also available that integrate the cartridge and the atomizer, and they are typically sold at a lower price, but must be purchased more often.
All electronic cigarettes have a power supply, often in the form of a battery for those designed to be portable. Typical products use a lithium-ion battery that can be recharged through a USB connection. Chargers are sold in an array comparable to cell phone charger options, with selections for AC outlets, cars, or USB-ready devices. Many electronic cigarette companies offer portable charging cases that are intended to resemble cigarette packaging. They contain large batteries that, when activated, charge the smaller individual batteries.

Depending on the form, e cigarettes might have a power switch that must be turned on before the heating element will start. Alternatively, some are automatic and are triggered when the user inhales through an e airflow sensor. Many styles prevent overheating with a programmed cutoff after a certain amount of time.

The liquid needed for vapor production is sold both in bottle form for manual refilling, as well as pre-filled cartridges meant for single use. Referred to by manufacturers as nicotine solution, e-liquid, and e-juice, the concoction contains the base, water, and flavorings, as well as varying amounts of nicotine, labeled for purchase according to user preference. A wide variety of flavors are produced to appeal to every palate, from those intended to imitate traditional cigarettes, both regular and menthol, to an assortment of fruits and sweets, such as strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla.

As electronic cigarettes gain popularity, the technology is expected to advance. Longer battery life and lower cost are at the top of user requests.

Smokeless cigarettes is a much safer alternative to deadly tobacco. Know all that you need on vapor cigarette.

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Source: http://newhealthandfitness.org/2012/03/14/electronic-cigarettes-explained/

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Steven Chu Backpedals on Advocacy of European-Level Gas Prices

Recall then-incoming-Energy Secretary Steven Chu's now-infamous 2008 quote to the Wall Street Journal: "Somehow, we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." Such a remark was not as politically polarizing at that time, as the political debate more so highlighted the overall state of the economy.

But now, as gas prices linger just below the $4-a-gallon mark -- and as the 2012 election peers around the corner -- such a statement is politically toxic, and reflects poorly on the Obama administration's purported dedication to ameliorating the pain at the pump.

Now, 3 1/2 years later, Mr. Chu is coming dangerously close to achieving his goal, and the American people are far from amused. In fact, record-high gas prices have generated low numbers for President Obama's approval rating.

According to the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll, 46 percent of Americans approve of Obama's overall job performance, while 50 percent disapprove; moreover, nearly two-thirds of those polled frown upon the President's handling of gas prices. Another recent poll, conducted by CBS News, found that 54 percent of Americans believe the President does play a role in controlling gas prices.

Consequently, Steven Chu is altering his tune, as his advocacy for European-level gas prices looms too close to reality.

During a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) asked the Energy Secretary whether he still favors European-level gas prices. According to the National Journal, "Chu seemed to equivocate, pause, and stumble over his words when responding to Lee's question about high gas prices." Ultimately, Chu conceded, "I no longer share that view."

Not too long ago, Obama renounced policy measures designed to tame rising gas prices, as he stated in March of last year, "[W]e cannot keep going from shock to trance on the issue of energy security, rushing to propose action when gas prices rise, then hitting the snooze button when they fall again."

However, it's an election year, and the President is scrambling in every which way to secure a second term. And if that means folding on a previously held belief -- for the time being that is -- then so be it.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/steven-chu-backpedals-advocacy-european-level-gas-prices-160100594.html

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