KIEV, (RIA Novosti) – Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko would not even make the runoff if Ukraine held a presidential election at the moment, the National Institute for Strategic Studies said on Thursday.
The institute’s poll showed Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko top with 24.2% of respondents saying they would vote for her, followed by opposition Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych with 20.7%.
Only 9.7% of respondents said they supported Yushchenko.

JERUSALEM – Tzipi Livni, the moderate leader of Israel’s ruling party, was holding her ground against hawkish rival Benjamin Netanyahu a day after she steered the country toward early elections, polls showed on Monday.
The surveys hinted at what is expected to be a tough race between political leaders with sharply different world views. As foreign minister, Livni has been Israel’s chief peace negotiator with the Palestinians for the past year, and repeatedly has spoken of the need to make territorial concessions. Netanyahu takes a hard line against ceding land …

Presidential candidate Barack Obama has been named the most influential man in 2008. The Illinois Senator gained highest scores in the opinion poll by AskMen.com, which the website conducted online among 200,000 male visitors. The Los Angeles-based website is devoted to issues of fashion, habits and needs of the male population of the United States.
The poll, the results of which the website posted Tuesday, showed that Apple’s chairman Steve Jobs was the second most influential man in the USA. Swimmer Michael Phelps, the winner of multiple Olympic gold medals, was …