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 The unemployed veteran charged with a felony shocked South Carolina's Democratic establishment by winning the U.S. Senate primary, and party officials were still scratching their heads: What happened?
Alvin Greene, 32, didn't raise any money. He didn't have a website. And his opponent was a relatively better-known former legislator, Vic Rawl, who was already preparing for the general election. Greene was considered such a long shot that his opponent and media didn't even bother to check his background. If they had, they would have discovered he faces a felony obscenity charge after an alleged encounter with a college student last fall. After The Associated Press reported Greene's charge, the leader of the state Democratic party said she asked Greene to withdraw from the race. Question: Do you think that Alvin Greene should withdraw from the race? |
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 California Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina said that she regretted being caught on a live microphone making fun of her opponent Barbara Boxer's hair.
"I regret this whole situation. I gave people the opportunity to talk about something petty and superficial," she said, during an appearance on Fox News Sunday. "This is a very serious election year about serious issues."
Addressing, for the first time, her coif gaffe, Fiorina did not apologize to Boxer herself. Nor did she answer the question of whether she called the Senator personally to make amends for saying of her hairdo: "God, what is that? ... Sooo yesterday."
Question: Should comments like these matter to voters and should it matter whether or not Fiorina apologizes to Boxer or not? |
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 As critics continue to take aim at her parents for letting their 16-year-old daughter try to sail around the world, and as the cost of her rescue has now been estimated -- by one publication -- to total more than $1 million, Abby Sunderland has given her first in-depth interview since her dramatic rescue last week and she defended her voyage and her beleaguered parents.
"I think that a lot of people are judging me by the standards they have for their teens and other teens that they know... and thinking, 'She's exactly like them,'" Sunderland said in an Associated Press exclusive. "They don't understand that I've sailed my whole life and I do know what I'm doing out there."
Many of the Sunderlands' critics claim they should be footing the bill for the rescue, but Australia is picking up the tab. Question: Does Abby's attempt to sail around the world resemble adventure or child abuse by a father who likes the limelight? And who do you think should foot the bill for her rescue?
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 BP officials have turned to a new source for help with their oil cleanup efforts: actor Kevin Costner. The oil giant announced Monday that it had ordered 32 machines from Costner's company which use a centrifuge mechanism to separate oil from water and recycle the crude at the same time. Each machine weighs about 4,000 pounds, he said, and will allow crews to collect more oil.
"This is the key, it's the linchpin to people going back to work. It's certainly a way to fight oil spills in the 21st century," he said. "It creates an efficiency where there are no efficiencies out there, and it's been a long time coming." Costner said he had been working on developing the machine since 1992 or 1993 with the help of his brother, a scientist. "Skimmers are picking up 90 percent water, 10 percent oil, and they throw it into a barge ...What this machine simply does, in that particular case, will give a pure payload. Suddenly a barge will be coming back to shore with 99 percent oil as opposed to the other way around," he said. Question: What do you think of Costner's foray into the massive environmental disaster? Do you think his machines will help? |
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 In a meeting with BP, President Obama has demanded that the company set-up an escrow account that will pay damage claims to residents of the affected areas in a "fair, efficient and transparent" manner. In addition, the President is set to address the nation in primetime tomorrow night that will focus on the crisis in the Gulf.
Question: What do you want to hear from President Obama in his address about the oil spill in the Gulf? |
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