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We’ve seen a lot of special action from the Bonneville Salt Flats this year, but this just about takes the cake. The guys from P4 by Norwood, a Ferrari tuning shop, are laying claim to the title of the World’s Fastest Ferrari with a record run of 275.4 mph averaged over two sprints. Using a stock-bodied 1985 288 GTO Christian Audigier Clothes, owner Steve Trafton managed to snag not only the title of world’s fastest Ferrari, but the world’s fastest sports car (AA/BFMS) at the same time. The Prancing Horse beat out the previous record holder by just over 3 mph.

Interestingly enough, Thrafton skipped using a high-dollar Italian mill for this car’s beating heart. Instead Hale Bob Dresses, there’s a 540 cubic-inch big block General Motors V8 wedged down into that slinky body. Two Borg Warner 80-mm turbos help shove a full 17 pounds of boost into the eight-pot. Thrafton isn’t saying exactly how much power the car is laying down, but it has to be enough to move a planet on command if need be. Hit the jump to watch the Ferrari do what it does best on the Utah salt.

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Hitting the ceiling?

President Barack Obama had another uneventful month in the polls last month. I realize that’s a pretty dull way to start a column, but we do the best with the data we are given, so to speak. Obama’s average approval rate and disapproval rate both got better by the slimmest of margins — one-tenth of a point — which places him pretty much where he ended the past two months. His approval rating stayed above his disapproval rating, but by a margin of less than a full percentage point.

To liven up this morass of dullness, we are going to quickly run through the numbers here, and then we’re going to take a look at what it all might mean in the upcoming election, by doing something we haven’t done for a while — comparing Obama to his predecessors’ ratings.

First, let’s take a look at the new chart for April:

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April, 2012

April began with Mitt Romney essentially wrapping up the Republican nomination, and the media frenzy surrounding the horserace immediately abated (somewhat). Personally, I got so bored with the situation that I took a break and had some fun with the primary graphs, just to kill time. The political scene was so downright dull that the Supreme Court actually led the news not just once but twice this month, with two important cases that will likely make some waves in June, when the decisions are handed down. The Republican “War On Women” continued, with the Republicans taking a novel “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” stance on the situation: “War on women? What war on women? You mean all those anti-women laws we’re passing? Please, pay no attention whatsoever to that — it’s all the Democrats’ fault for refusing to stop bringing up what we’re actually legislatively trying to do!”

Sigh. It seems the silly season has come early, this year.

There were a few minor scandals last month, but neither of them was particularly political in nature, and therefore don’t have much bearing on how the public views the president. Internationally, North Korea tried (and failed) to launch a satellite Server 2008 Key, and the situation with Iran seems to be getting better — which caused gas prices to stop climbing. Gas is still expensive, but Americans don’t seem to be blaming Obama for this situation in the polls (not much, at any rate). The unemployment rate ticked down one-tenth of a percent last month, which didn’t hurt Obama (but also didn’t help him much, either). President Obama took advantage of the lull in the political world to launch his own reelection campaign, roughly mid-month.

This was all reflected in the polling. President Obama chalked up one of the most stable months in day-to-day poll averages ever. In fact, only one month (September of last year) was more stable. Both his daily approval average and his daily disapproval average fluctuated less than two percentage points over the course of the month. This was despite a poll which was wildly worse than all the others in the mix, mid-month (a poll that put Obama’s approval at 43 percent, which was criticized by other pollsters for lowballing minorities’ opinions). Obama’s daily numbers did go below water mid-month as a result, but they largely recovered by the end of the month.

Obama’s monthly average approval moved up one tiny tick to end the month at 47.8 percent. His monthly disapproval average moved down one tiny tick to end the month at 47.1 percent. While any improvement is good news for the president, the magnitude of the good news is as small as it possibly could be. Which isn’t really great news at all.

Overall Trends

Rather than talk about the overall trends this month (which we could do in one word: “flat”), we’re going to instead take a look at the larger political picture Obama faces in the upcoming election.

President Obama has a problem which must cause no end of headaches in the White House politics office: he seems to have a built-in “ceiling” of around 49 percent approval. Discounting his first year in office — when he was still riding the “honeymoon” goodwill — Obama has posted an approval rating better than 49 percent exactly twice. One of these doesn’t even really count, as it was the bounce he got one year ago when Osama bin Laden was killed. The other time was when he hit 49.4 percent last February. Other than those two instances, Obama has spent the last 27 months below 49 percent approval. Which, as I said, must make the politicos working for him reach for the aspirin, often.

Now, job approval ratings are decidedly not the same thing as “Who are you going to vote for?” polling. But it’d be foolish to argue that the two aren’t at least related. The worrying thing for Obama’s campaign is that the “rule of thumb” for presidential approval ratings is that if you’re riding above 50 percent, chances are you’ll be reelected. But this is precisely what Obama has trouble with — gaining the last two points between 48 and 50.

We thought, at this point, it’d be interesting to compare Obama with previous presidents, to see what history has to say about his reelection chances (note: clicking on the following links will show you a comparison graph of Obama and the first term of the president mentioned).

Two of the last five presidents were comfortably above 50 percent at this point in their first term, and both went on to be reelected handily. Ronald Reagan spent nearly a year with just over 40 percent approval, but he had snapped out of this slump and by now was at 54.0 percent approval. Bill Clinton had likewise spent a long stretch in the 40s, but by this point he had a 52.3 percent approval rating. Neither man would slip below 50 percent for the rest of the year, and both won second terms.

Two other presidents were in much worse shape. George H.W. Bush had sky-high approval ratings after the Gulf War, but by January of the election year, they had slipped to a disastrous 40.5 percent. This continued until the election, when he only managed 34.0 percent approval in October. Jimmy Carter had a national security “bump” of his own when the Iran hostage crisis hit, but it had crashed back down by this point, when he stood at 39.0 percent approval. After the next month (at 40.5 percent approval), Carter’s numbers would remain in the 30s for the rest of his term. Both men, of course, lost their reelection bid.

Which brings us to what could be the closest indicator of the election campaign we now face. This graph is so amazingly close I’m going to just paste in it for all to see:

[Click on graph to see larger-scale version.]

While George W. Bush also had two national security peaks (9/11 and the invasion of Iraq), both had faded by this point. Bush’s numbers and Obama’s have been almost exactly tracking each other for the past three months. Bush had a 48.6 approval rating at this point, and a 46.9 percent disapproval rating. Both are within one point of where Obama now stands. Bush’s numbers stayed pretty flat for the entire election season, until they finally limped over 50 percent and he eked out a win in 2004. In his second term, his approval numbers fell off a cliff, but that’s not really germane to the subject at hand.

Now, it is impossible to say that Obama will chart the same course Bush did in 2004. The only thing that can be said with any certainty is that the 2012 election will indeed be a close one, no matter what the Electoral College vote winds up being in November. This will be a campaign fought on the tiniest of margins, to put it another way.

Obama is much weaker politically than Reagan or Clinton was at this point. But he’s also a lot stronger politically than Carter or the first Bush. Obama faces a candidate much weaker than he, at least in the current polling, but that is no guarantee of success. If Obama cannot manage to pull his approval up above 50 percent (and keep it there) for the rest of the year, this election could be the nail-biter that some are now predicting.

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Sources And Methodology

ObamaPollWatch.com is an admittedly amateur effort, but we do try to stay professional when it comes to revealing our sources and methodology. All our source data comes from RealClearPolitics.com; specifically from their daily presidential approval ratings “poll of polls” graphic page. We take their daily numbers, log them, and then average each month’s data into a single number — which is then shown on our monthly charts here (a “poll of polls of polls,” if you will…). You can read a much-more detailed explanation of our source data and methodology on our “About Obama Poll Watch” page, if you’re interested.

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Obama’s All-Time Statistics

Monthly
Highest Monthly Approval — 2/09 — 63.4%
Lowest Monthly Approval — 10/11 — 43.4%

Highest Monthly Disapproval — 9/11, 10/11 — 51.2%
Lowest Monthly Disapproval — 1/09 — 19.6%

Daily
Highest Daily Approval — 2/15/09 — 65.5%
Lowest Daily Approval — 10/9/11 — 42.0%

Highest Daily Disapproval — 8/30/11 — 53.2%
Lowest Daily Disapproval — 1/29/09 — 19.3%

Obama’s Raw Monthly Data

[All-time high in bold, all-time low underlined.]

Month — (Approval / Disapproval / Undecided)
04/12 — 47.8 / 47.1 / 5.1
03/12 — 47.7 / 47.2 / 5.1
02/12 — 48.2 / 47.2 / 4.6
01/12 — 46.3 / 48.3 / 5.4
12/11 — 45.1 / 49.5 / 5.4
11/11 — 44.4 / 50.2 / 5.4
10/11 — 43.4 / 51.2 / 5.4
09/11 — 43.5 / 51.2 / 5.3
08/11 — 43.8 / 50.7 / 5.5
07/11 — 46.2 / 47.8 / 6.0
06/11 — 48.5 / 46.0 / 5.5
05/11 — 51.4 / 43.1 / 5.5
04/11 — 46.4 / 48.2 / 5.4
03/11 — 48.1 / 46.4 / 5.5
02/11 — 49.4 / 44.5 / 6.1
01/11 — 48.5 / 45.7 / 5.8
12/10 — 45.5 / 48.1 / 6.4
11/10 — 45.5 / 49.0 / 5.5
10/10 — 45.5 / 49.1 / 5.4
09/10 — 45.7 / 49.7 / 4.6
08/10 — 45.3 / 49.5 / 5.2
07/10 — 46.6 / 47.4 / 6.0
06/10 — 47.6 / 46.7 / 5.7
05/10 — 48.1 / 45.5 / 6.4
04/10 — 47.8 / 46.5 / 5.7
03/10 — 48.1 / 46.4 / 5.5
02/10 — 47.9 / 46.1 / 6.0
01/10 — 49.2 / 45.3 / 5.5
12/09 — 49.4 / 44.9 / 5.7
11/09 — 51.1 / 43.5 / 5.4
10/09 — 52.2 / 41.9 / 5.9
09/09 — 52.7 / 42.0 / 5.3
08/09 — 52.8 / 40.8 / 6.4
07/09 — 56.4 / 38.1 / 5.5
06/09 — 59.8 / 33.6 / 6.6
05/09 — 61.4 / 31.6 / 7.0
04/09 — 61.0 / 30.8 / 8.2
03/09 — 60.9 / 29.9 / 9.2
02/09 — 63.4 / 24.4 / 12.2
01/09 — 63.1 / 19.6 / 17.3

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Bird-watching luxury cruise passengers with high power binoculars spotted a fishing boat in distress and tried desperately to alert the captain of the Star Princess, owned by Carnival, of Concordia fame.

But the Princess, with a full complement of 2,500 “newlywed, overfed and nearly dead” well heeled luxury passengers sailed blithefully on, leaving one young man to die that night and another to die five days later.

Judy Meredith, one of the birdwatchers, tried to contact the Coast Guard via emails that she has provided, but the Coast says it didn’t get the messages.

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This would have been just another sad story of third world ill-equipped fisherman, but for the fact that 18 year-old Adrian Vasquez managed to live another nine days, when he was rescued.

He tried to tell people about the big white ship that had passed him by nine days earlier, but nobody believed him.

Unfortunately for the Star Princess/Carnival, one of the bird watchers, Judy Meredith of Bend, Ore., was determined to find out what happened to the fishing boat in distress. When she saw the news stories about Adrian’s amazing survival after 28 days at sea, she put two and two together.

Meredith also saw a little noticed local story in Panama-Guide.com and contacted the reporter Don Winner.

Winner was skeptical at first. He thought the chances of Meredith’s distressed fishing boat and the one that Adrian was on, being one in the same, were astronomical. Meredith sent him pictures of her distressed sighting taken from high powered cameras.

Winner tracked down Adrian and he confirmed that Meredith’s pictures were of him waving for help that fateful day.

Oropeces Betancourt, 24, and Fernando Osario, 16, almost certainly died because the captain of the Star Princess, Edward Perrin, failed to stop and save them as legally required by international maritime law.

The first story the cruise line had told Meredith was that, according to the ship’s log, the Star Princess was moving through a fishing fleet at the time. Contact was supposedly made with the fishing boat Homemade Tattoo Machine, which asked the large ship to change course to avoid damaging their nets. The waving that the bird watchers saw was the fishermen thanking the ship.

Now, as reported by London papers, Star Princess Captain Edward Perrin is devastated that he is being accused of knowingly turning his back on anyone in distress. “There appeared to be a breakdown in communication,” according to the cruise line.

Apparently, the captain never got the information. This is somewhat believable, since it is the explicit and well-known policy of Carnival to keep passengers away from the captain. So who else is responsible?

So, the captain was lying, according to Winner.

It’s pretty clear at this point the Captain of the Star Princess lied about his contact with the “Fifty Cent” (the fishing boat) that day. He was not, in fact, “in contact” via radio with a fishing fleet — because they didn’t have a radio. There was no need to maneuver to the West to avoid their fishing nets, because they were not fishing. They were waving their shirts and life preservers up and down, trying to be spotted, asking to be rescued. And, the captain blew them off. He made the fatal assumption that they were “just fishing.”

He turned slightly to avoid them, and he went on his merry way. Now, I want to know his name…

Thank You Eyebrow tattoo supply, Judy Meredith: This amazing woman did everything she could think of to try to help these poor people. She notified the ship’s captain. She notified the US Coast Guard via email. She followed up with the Princess Cruise Line — who gave her a “corporate” answer, best suited to protect their bottom line. And then she still kept at it, and contacted me. Very, very well done. This might be the first you’ve heard of this story, but I doubt it will be the last.

The first Eurovision semi-final kicks off on May 22. To help you decide which country deserves your televote, I’m previewing some of this year’s most talked-about contestants. Today’s acts include Ireland’s Jedward-easily the most successful X-Factor rejects ever-and Sweden’s Loreen-the odds-on favorite to win the Eurovision crown this May.

Austria: Trackshittaz with “Woki mit deim Popo”:

Austria’s unfortunately named hip-hop group the Trackshittaz take tacky to a whole new level. Their song “Shake Your Booty” is rather monotonous and reaches its lyrical heights when it rhymes “low” with “ho.” To the group’s credit, I love how in the middle of all this German you hear a very clear English expression: “booty shake.” I can see how some people might appreciate the Macarena-esque qualities of the song. It’s simple, lends itself well to the most basic dance moves (thrusting, gyrating, etc.) Tattoo Machine Professional, and could become a summer hit. In Austria. Don’t judge the song by its simple lyrics alone. As the group recently told me in an interview, the song is meant to uplift people struggling with the downturn. Its message? “Turn of your head and shake your booty!”

Prediction: Hip hop does not do well at Eurovision Tattoo Of Guns, and not even this charismatic duo can overcome that. Austria will finish somewhere near the bottom of its semi-final, thereby missing out on the grand final on May 26.

Greece: Eleftheria Eleftheriou with “Aphrodisiac”:

Owing to its economic woes, Greece had to stage its national selection inside the food court of a shopping mall this year. Fortunately they proved that austerity is no excuse to stop the fun, and it’s not where you have the party that matters, but who you invite. I’m happy to say that Greece got the guest list right. Eleftheria Eleftheriou has a body that just won’t quit, and she channels the energy of a cat in heat. Her performance of “Aphrodisiac” is jam-packed with good-looking back-up dancers and professional choreography. It all climaxes at the 2:00 mark when Eleftheria starts humping the floor and exposes her beige-colored underwear. How thoughtful of her to choose a pair that matches her dress.

As for the song, “Aphrodisiac” has such simple lyrics that you can start repeating the chorus almost immediately. “Oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh/ You make me dance, dance like a maniac/ Oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh/ You make me want your aphrodisiac.” It’s slightly confusing when she sings she wants “your” aphrodisiac. Is she asking for her man’s oysters? I think she means something like, “You yourself are an aphrodisiac.”

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Ireland: Jedward with “Waterline”:

Jedward–the world’s most famous set of singing identical twins–are hungry to win Eurovision: they’re competing for the second straight year. The bad news is that they won’t win. Their song “Waterline” doesn’t lend itself to the over-the-top spectacle that helped them finish eighth at Eurovision 2011 with their more catchy number “Lipstick.” But the good news is that “Waterline” represents a real maturation of their sound. It doesn’t rely so heavily on the digitized antics of their other songs, and forces the boys to grapple with their own voices, which have moved in the right direction over the last year.

Prediction: Jedward’s popularity with Eurovision’s ever-younger demographic bodes well for their chances. Given that “Waterline” gets stuck in your head instantly–something crucial in a telelvised song contest–I’m confidant they can finish a respectable 10th or higher.

Sweden: Loreen with “Euphoria”:

If Eurovision can be compared to sex, then Loreen’s “Euphoria” is definitely this year’s orgasm. The foreplay begins the moment the synthesized boooooom kicks off the song, and the pleasure builds as Loreen asks if “this night can last forever more.” I seriously want it to if she’s singing. The staging from the Swedish national final (above) proves that less is more–a lesson most Eurovision acts have trouble understanding. Simple dance moves reflect the purity of the song’s message: that love takes us to a higher place. Loreen’s occasional writhing–cue jokes about straight jackets–conveys the sense of madness that can accompany that journey.

Prediction: If the bookies have it right–and I think they do–then Sweden’s Loreen is almost untouchable. The only contestant with a remote chance of beating her is Italy’s Nina Zilli–but even that is starting to seem unthinkable. Devout Eurovision fans can go ahead and book their hotels for Eurovision 2013 in Stockholm.

2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabrio – Click above for high res-image gallery

We’ve been friendly with the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class since its introduction. As much as we liked the sedan, we enjoyed the Coupes even more so. That stated, it would figure that we’re going to really dig the new 2010 E-Class Convertible. Of course, here in the D, we just get to look at the latest Benz drop top and listen to the Daimler folks make the car’s case. If we did nothing but listen to them, the E-Class Convertible is literally the most exciting thing since bagels got holes.

In reality, this is a pretty sharp looking car, especially with the top down. Turns out that the best way to remedy the awkward looking chunky C-Pillar is just to remove it altogether. Replacing the CLK as MB’s mass-market convertible, the new E-Class rag top has to be many things to many people. As such, Mercedes-Benz has equipped the E-Class Convertible with a couple of features that will allow the car to be driven with the top down year round.

The biggie is the new AirCap, a small 2.4-inch wind deflecting device that, in conjunction with a baffle between the rear headrests, keeps things quiet in the open cabin at speeds up to 100 mph. Sunstroke aside, not being able to talk to the person 13 inches away from you is one of the big drags of convertible ownership. If they’re to be believed, Mercedes claims that AirCap solves the problem. That’s a great thing, should you opt for the 382 horsepower, 391 pound-feet of torque E550 Convertible as opposed to the V6-powered 268-hp, 258 lb-ft of torque E350 Convertible.

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The rumor that the Cadillac DTS and STS will be nixed has officially been confirmed in an interview with the brand’s general manager, Jim Taylor. Sales of both models are down for the year, and Taylor admits that one premium-luxury sedan will be developed to compete in the segment.

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Audi’s first diesel and hybrid powertrains in the US will be launched in the Q7 next year. The power units will likely trickle down to other vehicles in Audi’s range, but they’re not yet offering up any details on how prolific this hardware will be. Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche have been working collaboratively to develop the parallel hybrid system Replica Girard Perregaux Watches, which makes the choice of the Q7 logical, as all three brands share a flavor of the architecture. Hybrid Q7s will be able to power around on the electric motor up to 31 mph Replica Philip Stein Watches for Cheap, and the system will also shut down the engine during cruise conditions at speeds up to 75 mph. The total weight of the system adds 300 pounds Replica Jaeger LeCoultre Watches sale, most of which is in the 288-volt NiMH battery pack.

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