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Voters no longer prefer Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton over Republican nominee Donald Trump, according to a national poll published Wednesday. Clinton’s favorability numbers are down 6 points in one week, earning a career-high 56 percent unfavorable rating, a new ABC-Washington Post poll reveals. Although Trump’s 63 percent was higher, when the poll was narrowed to only include registered voters, Clinton’s numbers went much higher. Clinton now virtually ties with Trump at 59 percent, to Trump’s 60 percent. Trump’s favorability has steadily increased since the Republican National Convention in July to 35 percent. Clinton also lost some of her key demographics,...

Facebook is thinking about adding a way to "dislike" posts on its site, founder Mark Zuckerberg has said. Speaking at a Q&A session in California, he said it was one of the most requested features the social network receives from its users. He said the site would need to find a way to make sure it did not become a way to demean people's posts.

<p>NEW YORK—Facebook Inc. FB -6.57% shares fell below the initial public offering price of $38 Monday, its second day of trading, a black eye for all those involved with the social networking company going public.</p> <p>Facebook shares changed hands at $37.08, down 3%, in premarket trading.</p>

What's Not To Like? Why Fondness Makes Us Poor Judges, But Dislike Is Spot-on ScienceDaily (Apr. 23, 2008) — How good are we at guessing other people's likes and dislikes? Ever bring a favorite dish to a potluck -- only to watch it go uneaten? Or receive an unwelcome shock when a cherished product is discontinued for lack of sales? People have the tendency to assume the whole world likes what we like, reveals new research from the June 2008 issue of the Journal of Consumer Research. However, we don't generalize the same way when it comes to things we...

Margot Wallström, the EU commissioner responsible for pushing through the controversial European constitution, has likened her task to "dressing Frankenstein's monster".In her first public remarks about a job that will keep her busy for the next 18 months, Mrs Wallström told a press conference in Brussels that the British would prove particularly sceptical. "The UK is filled with hatred towards the EU institutions," she said. "But I consider this 'mission irresistible', not 'mission impossible'." An easy win in today's Spanish referendum would put only a temporary spring in Mrs Wallström's step. The "yes" vote is expected to be overwhelming, albeit...

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is already the frontrunner for her party's presidential nomination in 2008. But to win the general election, she'll have to overcome opposition from a significant number of voters who absolutely can't stand her. Survey after survey shows that approximately one-third of New Yorkers has a negative opinion of Clinton, the New York Times said Saturday. "The voters who disapprove of Clinton are numerous and unshakable, and they have been around so long that they have a name in political circles. Hillary haters." The former first lady's negative image is largely driven by the perception that...

In a race for the US presidency, Hillary Rodham Clinton faces a problem that has dogged her since her days as first lady: an entrenched bloc of voters who simply do not like her. And her experience as a senator in New York shows that despite vigorous campaigning around the state since taking office, she remains an extremely polarising figure who is unable to sway these voters to her side. One poll after another shows that roughly one in three New Yorkers has an unfavourable opinion of her, a statistic that has not changed since she took office in 2001....

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's sky-high popularity dropped as division deepened over a budget stalemate dominated by partisan politics, according to a poll released Thursday. Schwarzenegger, who enjoyed near-record performance ratings two months ago, received approval from 57 percent of Californians in a survey from the Public Policy Institute - a fall of 7 percentage points since the group's poll in taken in May. While his approval numbers remained high, the survey found most of the drop came among Democrats and independent voters - two groups that had been most enthusiastic about Schwarzenegger's efforts to remain above the partisan...

<p>A hefty majority of California voters disapprove of the new law that will grant driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, with distaste running especially high among Republicans and whites, according to poll numbers released Tuesday.</p> <p>One day after a conservative Republican group kicked off a referendum campaign to overturn the law, a new Field Poll showed that 59 percent of registered voters disapproved of the bill and 34 percent approved.</p>

<p>The good news for those who believe Gray Davis ought to be dumped from the California governorship is that by a huge margin, most of the state's voters agree that he's doing a lousy job.</p> <p>A new Los Angeles Times Poll, confirming earlier public and private surveys, found that just 27 percent of California voters approve of his performance, with his handling of energy and budget crises listed as their top complaints.</p>

Found this while pondering the question,why do other countries dislike us? Part of an ad in the Saturday Enening Post in 1914. In every field of human endeavour, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or a manufactured product,emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition;the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man's work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes...