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A new national poll suggests that President Barack Obama is personally more popular than his policies. The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday, two days before Obama marks 100 days in the White House, indicates that three in four Americans feel Obama has the personal qualities a president should have. But when asked if Obama agrees with the respondent on the issues, that number drops to 57 percent. The survey also indicates that 63 percent of Americans approve of how Obama is handling his duties as president. One in three questioned in the poll disapprove.

President Barack Obama takes debt battle to Twitter, loses more than 40,000 followers in one day

Clooney, who wrote and directed the film, stars as presidential hopeful Mike Morris - a Democrat whose bid for the White House appears all but assured. But things take a disastrous turn when an ambitious young aide (Gossling) becomes embroiled in a scandal that threatens to rock the campaign and destroy everything his candidate has worked for. The timing's finally right for Clooney who told USA Today he shelved the project in 2008 after President Obama's election, believing the nation was too uplifted and optimistic "for a cynical political movie." Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/2011/07/27/2011-07-27_george_clooneys_the_ides_of_march_political_thriller_hits_at_morality_on_the_pre.html#ixzz1TN2RDHzX

India Inc believes the move by the Barack Obama administration to reduce tax breaks for US firms that ship jobs overseas will hit American companies more than impact on the Indian outsourcing industry. "It's a more US-US issue rather than one aimed at stopping outsourcing, or off-shoring, or anything to do with India," said Som Mittal, president of the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom), a representative boddy for the industry.