I think that's one of the greatest skills that politicians have, is choosing when to listen to the polls and when not to.

His polls have definitely weakened because, one, he had signed the legislative pay-raise bill last year, which was highly unpopular; and, two, he failed to deliver on his promise to lower property taxes.

This is interesting. Usually corruption doesn't even come up in polls.

It changes things a lot when one of the best pitchers in the game gets ejected. I think you'd see a lot of teams roll over in that situation.

[According to PPS, one of the keys to employee satisfaction is performance-based advancement and rewards.] Workers should be treated as individual professional public servants, not as bureaucrats, ... We tend to give everyone the same raise whether they're a fantastic worker or a mediocre worker.

Sometimes when everybody is playing at once, I listen here with one ear and overhear with the other ear.