Twitter is now tracking your tweets to compile daily ratings on which candidate has the most user sentiments. Launched Wednesday, the social site will be updating their Twitter Political Index, or Twindex, everyday at 8pm, comparing the top two candidates with most user sentiments. The two most popular candidates being mentioned on Twitter are (unsurprisingly) Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
Despite a largely Republican controlled legislature, a Republican Attorney General, and a controversial Republican governor, President Obama still leads polls in swing state Wisconsin looking towards November.
A Marquette University Law School poll released last month puts Obama ahead of Romney 51% to 43%. The margin has been relatively steady since April in the polls.
UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, Kofi Annan, has resigned after a failed attempt to gain Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s acceptance of his peace plan. The UN is in currently involved in discussions with the Arab league to appoint a successor. Whoever follows Mr. Annan will have a tough order to fill, as the former UN secretary general and Noble Peace prize winner quit only after immense frustration from the country’s escalating civil war.
Western Growers, a powerful trade association representing the interests of California and Arizona specialty crop farmers, recently endorsed Mitt Romney for president, saying he subscribes to the right kind of immigration reform.
A Senate cybersecurity bill failed to pass today as the result of a Republican filibuster, falling just eight votes shy of the 60 needed to advance to a final vote.
As IVN has reported, the cybersecurity bill is a major priority for the Obama administration, prompting a recent Wall Street Journal editorial by the President himself.
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