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by Steve Watts, Oct 05, 2012 9:30am PDTWhether for the interest in politics or just wanting free Avatar armor, the Xbox Live airing of the presidential debates drew in plenty of users. Microsoft has revealed a few statistics from its live polls, and just as the reaction from pundits and politicos, Romney came out on top.
IGN reports that 11% of the voters identified themselves as undecided, and 17% said they were leaning toward President Obama or Republican candidate Mitt Romney. In 9 out of 10 questions, Romney exceeded his baseline of support, while Obama suffered the inverse with 8 out of 10 questions losing support. 88% of respondents said they are "likely voters" and 69% said they will "definitely talk" to people about the election. Microsoft said that the daily polls have attracted roughly 10,000 users, and that the debate polls "far exceeded this number."
Three more debates are set for this presidential election, all of which will be similarly streamed on Xbox Live. The vice presidential candidates take the stage on October 11. The presidential candidates will spar town hall-style over foreign and domestic policy on October 16, and then discuss foreign policy alone on October 22.
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Microsoft has released live poll stats from its first streamed presidential debate, and says Romney came out gaining support.
Microsoft has released live poll stats from its first streamed presidential debate, and says Romney came out gaining support. : Shacknews
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#1 Teachers are paid differently based upon where they work.
#2 States their schools not the Federal Gov. Yes the Federal Gov gives money to States in support of education however it's up to those States, counties, etc to determine the # of teachers they employ.
In addition to this, it sounds great to simply hire more teachers however that doesn't really solve anything other than class size. Some kids don't want to learn and there is nothing a teacher can do about that.. and on the flip side there are bad teachers whom cannot be fired thanks to Unions.
So simply shifting money from one group to another also does absolutely nothing to help our debt problem. Also why don't we use Chicago schools as a case study of how well throwing money at schools work. Teachers making $76,000 a year will get a 17.6% raise over 4 years... which adding 74 million dollars more per year for that district's budget ( a city whom has increased their debt 121.9% to nearly 6.9 billion dollars over just the last 10 years).
The point over going this far off on the subject is that if you throw tons of money at these schools how much of it is going to go to the students and how much of it is going to be sucked up by Unions? I'd personally feel a lot better about tossing billions at schools if not for situations like this. If these Chicago teachers wanted more resources for their students well apparently the district was willing to give up $74 million additionally a year... but none went to the students. How many teachers could you hire with $74 million? Apparently none.
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