Obama gains 13 points among pro-choice independent women -- who make up 9 percent of the sample -- and 9 points among pro-choice Republican women, who account for 5 percent of the sample, according to the poll.
The first step was to figure out the dimensions of the problem, which required analyzing a sample of Examiner stories and dividing them into four categories: very good or better (20 percent of the sample), good (30 percent), acceptable (20 percent) and poor (30 percent).
Results of the February survey indicate that CMOs who were more optimistic increased from 29 percent of the sample in August 2012 to a whopping 56 percent in the current survey!