Poll: Number of ?birthers? plummets

The number of Americans saying President Obama was born in another country has been sliced in half, according to a new Washington Post poll.

In interviews following the public release the president?s ?long-form? birth certificate last week, fully 70 percent of Americans say Obama was born in Hawaii, a big bump-up from the 48 percent who said so a year ago. Even more say he was U.S.-born, or call that their best guess, for a total of 86 percent.

Overall, 10 percent of Americans say Obama was likely born abroad, down from 20 percent in an April 2010 Post-ABC poll. Almost all those who now say Obama was born in a foreign country say that it?s only their ?suspicion;? just 1 percent claim ?solid evidence? that the president was born elsewhere (9 percent said so last year).

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Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden visit Finland, Russia and Moldova

Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden traveled to Finland, Russia, and Moldova last week. In each country, the Vice President met with key leaders to discuss a full range of bilateral, regional, and international issues. In Helsinki, the Vice President consulted with our Finnish partners on our shared regional and global priorities. In Moscow, he worked to build on the ?reset? in U.S.-Russian relations, and focused on ways to further the prosperity of our two countries. Finally, in Chisinau, he met with leaders to signal our support for ongoing democratic and economic reforms and for Moldova's aspirations for European integration.

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Rep. Weiner gets some support

Rep. Anthony Weiner is back out in public and saying he intends to keep working. The disgraced Congressman is also getting support from a Democratic colleague who knows a little something about having a rough year. (June 10)

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Senate legislation may slow, but quorums continue

In the U.S. Senate, this is what nothing sounds like.

?Mr. Akaka.?

At 9:36 a.m. on Thursday, a clerk with a practiced monotone read aloud the name of Sen. Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii). The chamber was nearly deserted. The senator wasn?t there. Not that she was really looking for him.

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Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden with Military Families

Vice President Joe Biden meets with members of the Fort Campbell Falcons high school football team, and members of the 3rd Brigade 101st Airborne Division during a visit to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, February 11, 2011. Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, has a group discussion with teachers and staff members of Joseph Martin Elementary School in Hinesville, Georgia, and visits the Soldier Readiness Processing Site at Fort Stewart, Georgia, Feb. 14, 2011.

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Measuring party organization: The vertical dimension of the multi-level organization of state-wide parties in Spain and the UK

Over the past few years, attention to the role of state-wide political parties in multi-level polities has increased in recognition of their linkage function between levels of government, as these parties compete in both state-wide and regional elections across their countries. This article presents a coding scheme designed to describe the relationship between central and regional levels of state-wide parties. It evaluates the involvement of the regional branches in central decision-making and their degree of autonomy in the management of regional party affairs. This coding scheme is applied to state-wide parties in Spain (the socialist PSOE and the conservative Partido Popular) and in the UK (Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats). It is an additional tool with which to analyse party organization and it facilitates the comparison of parties across regions and in different countries.

Source: http://ppq.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/17/3/343?rss=1

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