Ennis, now head of the digital media practice at the investment bank Petsky Prunier, did not have a high opinion of the Times even before this incident.

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Some recent opinion surveys have shown a frighteningly high level of openness to extreme views.

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Though the two personally rank high in opinion polls, they have not found a way to translate their popularity into power in a parliamentary form of government.

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Some people have formed that low opinion of Romney out of a combination of low information and high ideology.

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