<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><h1 property="dc:title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 17px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 36px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:
 normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Friends --&nbsp;</font></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">My idea of hopeful news, seen just now on Google News:</span></h1><h1 property="dc:title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 17px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 30px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;
 line-height: 36px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">NEWSWEEK Poll: Obama Approval Rating Jumps, Democrats Close ‘Enthusiasm Gap’</h1><div style="font-size: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The full article is at</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">&nbsp;<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/22/poll-obama-approval-jumps-dems-more-fired-up.html">http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/22/poll-obama-approval-jumps-dems-more-fired-up.html</a></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br></div></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">and includes the following:</font></span></div><div style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, serif;
 "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; "><br></span></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">"If Afghanistan doesn’t show significant improvement by Obama’s July deadline—translation: a more stable government, fewer American deaths—he will likely call for a withdrawal. Many Republicans on Capitol Hill, meanwhile, will reject “surrender.”"</span></font></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, serif">&nbsp;</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">--Jenifer</font></span></font></span></div></td></tr></table><br>