Poll Finds Lack of Passion for Republican Candidates

Only those possible contenders who regularly appear on television ? or have made bids before ? are well known enough to elicit significant views from their fellow Republicans. And of that group, only one, former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, is viewed favorably by more than half of the Republican electorate.

The poll would seem to reflect the late start to the Republican primary season, with many of the major likely candidates seeking to hoard their money and avoid making any missteps that they might have to live with later, when voters go to polls or caucus rooms.

While it may not be unusual for voters? attention to be focused elsewhere at this stage of a campaign, the survey at the very least provides a reality check for a race that has received frenetic coverage at times on cable news and the Internet even though nearly 60 percent of Republicans cannot point to a single candidate about whom they are enthusiastic, according to the Times/CBS poll.

A host of potential Republican candidates have a lot of work ahead ? and money to spend ? to make themselves better known to their party faithful and other Americans.

For instance, former Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota may be drawing media attention as a Republican presidential contender, but nearly 80 percent of Republican respondents to the Times/CBS poll said they did not know enough about him to say whether they viewed him favorably or unfavorably (20 percent say they view him positively and 3 percent say they view him negatively).

Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi may be well known along the corridors of K Street ? where he was once a lobbyist ? and among Washington-based reporters who covered him as a one-time Republican Party chairman. But 85 percent of Republican voters said they did not know enough about him to offer an opinion.

Jon M. Huntsman Jr., who is stepping down as ambassador to China, might take heart that five times as many party members view him favorably as view him unfavorably. But that is just it: literally 5 percent of Republican poll respondents said they viewed him favorably, 1 percent said they viewed him unfavorably and more than 90 percent said they had nothing to say either way because they had not heard enough about him.

Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota; Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana, and former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania drew similar responses.

Sarah Palin, the one-time vice-presidential candidate and former governor of Alaska ? who is a regular on Fox News, which the survey said was the television news network most watched by Republicans ? is the best known of the possible candidates, according to the poll. She is viewed the least favorably by the general public: Twice as many respondents over all said they had an unfavorable view of her (55 percent) as said they had a favorable view (26 percent).

But her standing among Republican respondents was the polar opposite: About half of Republicans said they viewed her favorably; 26 percent said they viewed her unfavorably.

Former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, was not far behind her in terms of name recognition. Among all American voters, he is viewed slightly more positively than negatively, with 28 percent expressing favorable views and 24 percent expressing unfavorable views. Among the poll?s Republican voters, 42 percent said they viewed him favorably and 15 percent said they viewed him unfavorably.

The poll was taken nationally Friday through Wednesday with interviews of 1,116 registered voters and 524 registered Republicans. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points for all voters and plus or minus four percentage points for Republican voters.

Over all, it showed that Republicans who are considering making presidential bids will have to woo a party that largely identifies with the Tea Party movement ? more than half of Republican voters said they considered themselves Tea Party supporters ? and has questions about President Obama?s origin of birth.

A plurality of Republican voters, 47 percent, said they believed Mr. Obama, who was born in Hawaii, was born in another country; 22 percent said they did not know where he was born, and 32 percent said they believed he was born in the United States.

While that might indicate that there is a receptive audience for the real estate mogul Donald J. Trump as he raises questions about Mr. Obama?s citizenship, the poll also pointed to potential roadblocks for him should he pursue a formal candidacy.

Mr. Trump has been getting considerable attention as a possibly strong contender, but just about as many Republicans view him favorably as view him unfavorably ? 35 percent favorably and 32 percent unfavorably? and nearly 60 percent of Republicans interviewed said they did not believe he was a serious candidate. (Far more of all voters view him unfavorably ? 46 percent ? than view him favorably, 25 percent.)

If one Republican stands out in the Times/CBS News poll, it is Mr. Huckabee, who has his own show on the Fox News Channel. Roughly a third of all voters view him favorably, as opposed to a quarter who view him unfavorably. And among Republican voters, more than half view him positively as opposed to 11 percent who have negative views.

?Watching Huckabee on TV gives me a good idea of how he views things,? Floyd Petersen, a disabled contractor in Thompson Falls, Mont., said in a follow-up interview. ?TV has made me know him better.?

When Republicans were asked whom they were most enthusiastic about, Mr. Huckabee was the second-most-mentioned candidate, after Mr. Romney. But the percentages were small: 8 percent named Mr. Huckabee, 9 percent named Mr. Romney and 57 percent could not name anyone.

How well a candidate is known at this stage of a campaign is not necessarily a reflection of where they will stand when the race engages in earnest. For instance, at this point four years ago, 77 percent of Republicans surveyed by The New York Times and CBS News said they did not know enough about Mr. Romney to form an opinion of him. Yet he was one of the better-known candidates by the time he dropped out in February 2008.

And the best-known and best-liked candidate at the time of that poll ? taken in March 2007 ? was former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York, whose campaign ultimately fizzled.

As the candidates go about building their organizations and raising money this time around, voters seem content to wait until the first caucuses and primaries get closer before solidifying their opinions.

?Right now. there is not one of the potential Republican candidates that I would be enthusiastic about even if they came out definitely,? John Pollard, a retired deputy sheriff of Tacoma, Wash., said in a follow-up interview. ?I?m going to wait and see who runs when we get into the primaries.?

Marina Stefan contributed reporting.

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Political Memo: Ryan, Pushing Budget, Resists Talk of Higher Office

?We need a viable Republican candidate for president,? pleaded the woman, Nancy Champion, a retired schoolteacher. ?Will you run against him??

Mr. Ryan grinned, blushed and promptly tried to change the subject, telling his audience: ?She?s not related to me. She wouldn?t say that if she was.? But no, he added, he does not intend to join the Republican nominating contest and try to run against Mr. Obama.

He simply wants to debate him.

As chairman of the House Budget Committee, Mr. Ryan has emerged as one of the president?s most visible Republican rivals in a budget fight that will help frame the nation?s politics for the next year and beyond. In January, he delivered the official response to the State of the Union address, and this month he has become a leading face of the opposition with a 2012 spending plan that calls for deep cuts and the gradual privatization of Medicare.

So far, the dueling arguments are playing out on vastly different stages.

?He?s got the bully pulpit,? Mr. Ryan said, walking out of Clinton?s Village Hall on Tuesday afternoon. ?But I think he?s bigger than this. I think he?s bigger than this moment, I think he?s bigger than his speech last week. I think he?ll come to realize that ? at least that?s my hope.?

When the president delivered his rebuttal to the Republican plan last week in Washington, he invited Mr. Ryan to sit in the front row, where the congressman watched the president sharply criticize his proposal and outline the Democratic position. At the end, Mr. Ryan declared, ?What we heard today was a political broadside from our campaigner-in-chief.?

Yet as he traveled this week through his district across southern Wisconsin, which Mr. Obama narrowly won in 2008, Mr. Ryan took a cooler approach and said both sides should try to seek more ?mutual respect.?

?I?m trying not to get into some partisan bickering war with the president,? Mr. Ryan told an audience. ?I don?t see what purpose it serves to do that.?

It remains an open question whether the call for civility will last when the debate resumes in Washington. Until then, it comes as little surprise that Mr. Obama attracts more attention to his side of the debate.

The president is making his case ? the deficit must be cut, but the social safety net of Medicare must not ? in high-profile town meetings this week from Virginia to California.

And Mr. Ryan is making a counter case ? tax cuts are needed to stir economic growth, and Medicare is on an unsustainable path ? as he travels through towns like North Prairie, Delavan and Clinton, population 2,162.

If Mr. Obama delivers his argument with all the presidential polish of a Broadway show, the presentation by Mr. Ryan is closer to an act on the community theater circuit as he hits 19 town meetings over the course of a two-week Congressional recess. He draws applause when he explains that Medicare would not immediately end for older citizens and that the plan would affect only people younger than 55.

The Republican budget blueprint passed the House last week on a strict partisan vote. The party?s potential presidential candidates have praised the plan and given Mr. Ryan accolades for confronting the issue. But they have stopped short of fully embracing it, particularly the Medicare provisions.

As Mr. Ryan climbed into the front seat of a Chevy Suburban to ride to his next stop, he paused for a moment when asked if the Republican position was being heard as loudly as the Democratic one. He said all Republicans shared a responsibility for explaining solutions to the nation?s debt burdens, but he conceded that it was more challenging for his party to break through.

?We don?t have the presidential candidates right now,? Mr. Ryan said. ?The field hasn?t materialized yet, so we?re out there doing it ourselves.?

It is not that Mr. Ryan?s proposal, which he calls ?The Path to Prosperity,? has not received considerable attention. For months, he has been delivering PowerPoint presentations on the plan, explaining the urgency of cutting trillions from the budget in hopes of escaping, as he explains it, ?a tidal wave of debt.?

Mr. Ryan tugs at the BlackBerry that is attached to his belt and aims a red pointer at the numbers of the country?s escalating debt. He has been holding these town meetings since he was elected to Congress a dozen years ago, but the police officers standing by the doors and the standing-room-only crowd illustrate that the implications are now far higher.

?I don?t want to get in a shouting match with 10 people at once,? he said at one point, when a man in a corner of the room tried to take an opposing view on corporate taxes.

But he received far more praise than grief.

Voters not only asked whether he would consider running for president, but also if he would try to win a Senate seat. He has told friends that he does not intend to do that, either, because being a junior senator would be a step down from being chairman of the Budget Committee.

For now, at least, he may not be debating the president ? at least in a side-by-side setting ? but there is no question that it is Mr. Ryan?s plan that is at the center of the debate.

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id Software releases new Rage footage, multiplayer details

New details about id Software's Rage has surfaced this week, giving gamers a taste of what they can expect from both single and multiplayer portions of the game. First announced in 2007, Rage is set in a post-apocalyptic world after the impact of Apophis, a real life asteroid that is expected to pass near Earth in 2036. Naturally, the player survives that catastrophe and is left to fend for themselves among other survivors, including eight or more hostile factions comprised of bandits and mutants.

Rage seems to incorporate gameplay elements from many genres. Although the title is primarily billed as a first-person shooter, players can race vehicles to earn money for upgrades, and there are RPG-like features such as an inventory system and side missions. The term "sandbox" is used to describe the gameplay, but we're not sure how open the world is -- we picture something like Borderlands. Rock, Paper, Shotgun says Rage has a classic id feel to it, but there's more "complexity and reasoning."

The co-op portion is called Legends of the Wasteland and serves as a prequel to the single-player story. Co-op missions are linked to the main campaign and offer somewhat of a backstory along with the "opportunity to revisit key locations from a different perspective." Meanwhile, the online multiplayer specifically focuses on car combat called "Rage Combat Rally" instead of the traditional foot-bound combat. Vehicles will be customizable via some type of unlock system akin to Call of Duty.

After being delayed, Rage is finally slated to launch for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on September 13. Preorders will be upgraded to the Anarchy Edition, which includes special in-game armor, two weapons and a vehicle. Although it looks like id is pouring a ton of effort into Rage, it doesn't seem to have as strong of a following as you'd expect. We imagine this is partly because some gamers are bored of post-apocalyptic fiction, having played titles like BioShock and Fallout in recent years.

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Nokia and Microsoft Deal Official, Definitive Agreement Signed

Nokia and Microsoft have today signed a definitive agreement, officially recognising that the Finnish mobile manufacturer will make the Windows Phone platform the primary operating system for its smartphone devices.

The announcement, which was initially announced in February, noted that the deal was signed ahead of schedule, ensures that both companies will contribute to the development of the new ecosystem but also highlighted that Nokia and Microsoft had already made ?significant progess? on the development of the first Nokia products incorporating the Windows Phone platform.

Nokia is reportedly already porting key applications and service to the Windows Phone platform and is actively engaging third-party app developers to ensure its handsets launch with a wide array of applications and associated services.

The deal will focus on four areas, including the porting of Nokia?s mapping, navigation and location services to the Windows Phone operating system, with Microsoft ensuring its Bing search engine is present on Nokia devices. Combined, the companies hope that it will enable ?better monetization of Nokia?s navigation assets? and bring in ?new forms of advertising revenue?.

Nokia will also open an own-brand (possibly Ovi) application store that leverages the Windows Marketplace infrastructure. The partnership will ensure Nokia benefits over rival Windows Phone OEMs as it can launch its own store.

As a result of the deal, Nokia will pay Microsoft royalties for the Windows Phone platform, starting only when the Finnish company launches its first Windows Phone devices. Microsoft has also agreed to make payments to Nokia ?measured in the billions of dollars? for services but also intellectual property royalties.

With the deal signed, Nokia and Microsoft will engage with operators and developers to showcase new devices and the unique Windows Phone platform they are building. It is suggested that the first volume shipments will start early 2012, with it rumoured that Nokia will launch four new devices initially, growing to twelve over the course of the year.

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Gaming 24 - A Lovely Battlefield

Gaming 24 - A Lovely Battlefield

Posted on 10th Apr 2011 at 10:21 by Podcast with 18 comments

Battlefield 3, Portal 2, Alice: Madness Returns and Crysis 2 - those are the topics of conversation this week. We also discuss why StarCraft II is awful, and why Clive thinks Shogun 2 is 'lovely,' rather than 'awesome.'

This week sees bit-gamer regulars Joe, Clive and Paul joined by a fresh face too; our new intern David Hing was brave enough to both lend us his vocal cords and sit opposite Harry this week. That boy has guts!

As well as the usual rants and discussions, the podcast also features the regular competitions and reader mail slots. We've got a new prize up for grabs this week too - a Speedlink Strike FX Wireless Gamepad, kindly provided by Speedlink - so listen in for your chance to win.

As ever, the bit-tech hardware podcast features music by Brad Sucks, and was recorded on Shure microphones. You can download the podcast direct, listen in-browser or subscribe through iTunes using the links below. Also, be sure to let us know your thoughts about the discussion in the forums.

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Nokia and Microsoft Deal Official, Definitive Agreement Signed

Nokia and Microsoft have today signed a definitive agreement, officially recognising that the Finnish mobile manufacturer will make the Windows Phone platform the primary operating system for its smartphone devices.

The announcement, which was initially announced in February, noted that the deal was signed ahead of schedule, ensures that both companies will contribute to the development of the new ecosystem but also highlighted that Nokia and Microsoft had already made ?significant progess? on the development of the first Nokia products incorporating the Windows Phone platform.

Nokia is reportedly already porting key applications and service to the Windows Phone platform and is actively engaging third-party app developers to ensure its handsets launch with a wide array of applications and associated services.

The deal will focus on four areas, including the porting of Nokia?s mapping, navigation and location services to the Windows Phone operating system, with Microsoft ensuring its Bing search engine is present on Nokia devices. Combined, the companies hope that it will enable ?better monetization of Nokia?s navigation assets? and bring in ?new forms of advertising revenue?.

Nokia will also open an own-brand (possibly Ovi) application store that leverages the Windows Marketplace infrastructure. The partnership will ensure Nokia benefits over rival Windows Phone OEMs as it can launch its own store.

As a result of the deal, Nokia will pay Microsoft royalties for the Windows Phone platform, starting only when the Finnish company launches its first Windows Phone devices. Microsoft has also agreed to make payments to Nokia ?measured in the billions of dollars? for services but also intellectual property royalties.

With the deal signed, Nokia and Microsoft will engage with operators and developers to showcase new devices and the unique Windows Phone platform they are building. It is suggested that the first volume shipments will start early 2012, with it rumoured that Nokia will launch four new devices initially, growing to twelve over the course of the year.

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iPad Review: Sword and Sworcery EP

iPad Review: Sword and Sworcery EP

Posted on 11th Apr 2011 at 10:50 by David Hing with 12 comments

Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP for the iPad is like nothing else you have ever played. Described as ?a 21st century interpretation of the archetypical old school videogame adventure? it uses beautifully crafted pixel-scapes to do for video gaming what the impressionist painters did for art.

A collaborative project from indie studio Capybara, rock musicians and art from the Superbrothers themselves, Sword and Sworcery EP is a essentially a point and click adventure game that sees you cast as a warrior out to destroy an ancient evil. To do that you?ll need to solve puzzles, fight bears and collect an artefact called the Megatome ? so far, so adventure-game. What sets is apart from the likes of Kings Quest however are the lashings of surrealism, abstraction and poetry that somehow never slips into infuriating pretentiousness.


The real star isn?t the music or the mysticism, however, but the visual style. It?s absolutely perfect, causing us to frequently stop playing for a moment or two just to admire the scenery ? no mean feat considering the outstanding visual quality of most modern games. The landscapes are rich and detailed and invoke a near painterly quality. There?s a rare sense of artistry to Sword and Sworcery that we?ve not seen in a long, long time.

Sword and Sworcery?s music is still exemplary, however. The sound design has been meticulously crafted, fitting perfectly with the gameplay and creating an absorbing atmosphere that genuinely hooks you in to the moment. The sounds and music towards the end of our first session built a huge amount of tension and it was only after the threat ? which we won?t name to avoid spoiling it ? passed that we realised that our eyes were stinging due to lack of blinking.

A major drawback of most iPad and iPhone games is that they fail to make the most of the touchscreen interface or try to shoe horn in an ineffective d-pad. Point and click games seem like an assured win for touch-screens however, so Sword and Sworcery is a natural fit. It doesn?t limit itself to the conventions of the genre though, using screen-tilting mechanics regular switches from landscape to portrait to keep things interesting. In landscape mode you?re able to move around with your sword and shield equipped, while turning to portrait position opens your Megatome ? a combination spell book and help guide.


Sword and Sworcery isn?t all hard-core art-game, however ? there are points of genuine humour and awesome subtlety. At one point, for example, you have to travel into your dreams to find a lost key, which involves following a bear which dances like Ricky Gervais in the Office. It?s a moment which, like the game as a whole, feels beautifully surreal and yet oddly poignant.

Verdict: Sword and Sworcery could be a landmark in history of mobile gaming, proving to be the first title we?ve seen on the iPad platform which so wonderfully blurs the line between gaming and ambient art. Pensive, intelligent and wonderfully rich, you can feel the deep love and adoration for gaming that has gone into this project and it shines from its every pixel.

Superbrothers: Sword and Sorcery EP is developed by a whole host of talented artist and is available for the iPad via the AppStore.

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Political Memo: Ryan, Pushing Budget, Resists Talk of Higher Office

?We need a viable Republican candidate for president,? pleaded the woman, Nancy Champion, a retired schoolteacher. ?Will you run against him??

Mr. Ryan grinned, blushed and promptly tried to change the subject, telling his audience: ?She?s not related to me. She wouldn?t say that if she was.? But no, he added, he does not intend to join the Republican nominating contest and try to run against Mr. Obama.

He simply wants to debate him.

As chairman of the House Budget Committee, Mr. Ryan has emerged as one of the president?s most visible Republican rivals in a budget fight that will help frame the nation?s politics for the next year and beyond. In January, he delivered the official response to the State of the Union address, and this month he has become a leading face of the opposition with a 2012 spending plan that calls for deep cuts and the gradual privatization of Medicare.

So far, the dueling arguments are playing out on vastly different stages.

?He?s got the bully pulpit,? Mr. Ryan said, walking out of Clinton?s Village Hall on Tuesday afternoon. ?But I think he?s bigger than this. I think he?s bigger than this moment, I think he?s bigger than his speech last week. I think he?ll come to realize that ? at least that?s my hope.?

When the president delivered his rebuttal to the Republican plan last week in Washington, he invited Mr. Ryan to sit in the front row, where the congressman watched the president sharply criticize his proposal and outline the Democratic position. At the end, Mr. Ryan declared, ?What we heard today was a political broadside from our campaigner-in-chief.?

Yet as he traveled this week through his district across southern Wisconsin, which Mr. Obama narrowly won in 2008, Mr. Ryan took a cooler approach and said both sides should try to seek more ?mutual respect.?

?I?m trying not to get into some partisan bickering war with the president,? Mr. Ryan told an audience. ?I don?t see what purpose it serves to do that.?

It remains an open question whether the call for civility will last when the debate resumes in Washington. Until then, it comes as little surprise that Mr. Obama attracts more attention to his side of the debate.

The president is making his case ? the deficit must be cut, but the social safety net of Medicare must not ? in high-profile town meetings this week from Virginia to California.

And Mr. Ryan is making a counter case ? tax cuts are needed to stir economic growth, and Medicare is on an unsustainable path ? as he travels through towns like North Prairie, Delavan and Clinton, population 2,162.

If Mr. Obama delivers his argument with all the presidential polish of a Broadway show, the presentation by Mr. Ryan is closer to an act on the community theater circuit as he hits 19 town meetings over the course of a two-week Congressional recess. He draws applause when he explains that Medicare would not immediately end for older citizens and that the plan would affect only people younger than 55.

The Republican budget blueprint passed the House last week on a strict partisan vote. The party?s potential presidential candidates have praised the plan and given Mr. Ryan accolades for confronting the issue. But they have stopped short of fully embracing it, particularly the Medicare provisions.

As Mr. Ryan climbed into the front seat of a Chevy Suburban to ride to his next stop, he paused for a moment when asked if the Republican position was being heard as loudly as the Democratic one. He said all Republicans shared a responsibility for explaining solutions to the nation?s debt burdens, but he conceded that it was more challenging for his party to break through.

?We don?t have the presidential candidates right now,? Mr. Ryan said. ?The field hasn?t materialized yet, so we?re out there doing it ourselves.?

It is not that Mr. Ryan?s proposal, which he calls ?The Path to Prosperity,? has not received considerable attention. For months, he has been delivering PowerPoint presentations on the plan, explaining the urgency of cutting trillions from the budget in hopes of escaping, as he explains it, ?a tidal wave of debt.?

Mr. Ryan tugs at the BlackBerry that is attached to his belt and aims a red pointer at the numbers of the country?s escalating debt. He has been holding these town meetings since he was elected to Congress a dozen years ago, but the police officers standing by the doors and the standing-room-only crowd illustrate that the implications are now far higher.

?I don?t want to get in a shouting match with 10 people at once,? he said at one point, when a man in a corner of the room tried to take an opposing view on corporate taxes.

But he received far more praise than grief.

Voters not only asked whether he would consider running for president, but also if he would try to win a Senate seat. He has told friends that he does not intend to do that, either, because being a junior senator would be a step down from being chairman of the Budget Committee.

For now, at least, he may not be debating the president ? at least in a side-by-side setting ? but there is no question that it is Mr. Ryan?s plan that is at the center of the debate.

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