While gun ownership has remained steady over the past two decades, the newest Gallup poll shows record low support for stricter gun laws. In 1990, 78 percent of Americans favored stricter gun laws, while only 17 percent thought they should be kept the same.
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GALLUP — When Gallup City Councilor E. Byran Wall wants potential new residents of the Mossman area of Gallup to get a feel for the neighborhood, he tells them to take a drive down Julie Street. Or Valentina Street.
The Gallup Poll is reporting that President Obama's daily approval rating has fallen below 50 percent for the first time. The timesnews.net straw poll, which is not a scientific measure of public opinion, for today has the president's approval rating above the 50% among timesnews.net readers.
The same day they rejected a gay marriage ballot measure, residents of Maine voted overwhelmingly to allow the sale of medical marijuana over the counter at state-licensed dispensaries.
The coup last summer in this tiny, Central American country blew up into an international incident, with thousands of Hondurans taking to the streets while everyone from Barack Obama to Fidel Castro lined up behind ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
Public approval of the job that President Barack Obama is performing has fallen below 50 percent for the first time in the Gallup Poll's daily tracking of opinion.
