A new poll shows Santorum surging ahead of Mitt Romney nationally

Are the American people tuning out of politics altogether?

William F. Buckley Jr. was once quoted as saying that he’d rather be ruled by the first 400 names in the Boston telephone directory than the faculty at Harvard. Apparently, most Americans feel the same way: The public’s perception of Congress has sunk to yet another new low, with 43 percent of likely voters believing [...]

I speculated last week that, notwithstanding the American public’s rather obvious war wariness,  making the public case for military action against Iran wouldn’t be all that difficult given the three decades of antipathy between the United States and the Islamic Republic that started with the Iranian Hostage Crisis. A new poll from The Hill would [...]

Thanks in large part to an organization that’s been in existence since the 2008 election, not to mention a significant population of Mormons, Mitt Romney looks to be headed for a huge victory in tomorrow’s Nevada Caucuses. Yesterday, for example, we got a poll from the Las Vegas Review-Journal showing Romney leading Newt Gingrich by [...]

During the lead up to the South Carolina Primary, there was some evidence of a growing problem for Newt Gingrich with female voters in the wake of the new allegations made by one of his ex-wives. As it turned out, no gender gap materialized in the South Carolina Exit Polls. That wasn’t true last night [...]

Mitt Romney seems headed for a big, and important, victory tomorrow in Florida.

American politics is as polarized as ever, and it shows no signs of changing regardless of who wins in November.

It’s pretty much a dead heat in Florida between Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.

Newt Gingrich has amazingly high unfavorables.

A record number of Americans don’t consider themselves a member of either party.

Romney, Paul, Santorum. The last set of Iowa frontrunners seems to be set.

Don’t look now but President Obama’s approval ratings are closing in on levels that point to re-election.

Steven Taylor noted yesterday that Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich were tied in the latest CNN/ORC poll, and I noted in an update to James Joyner’s post this morning that there’s also a tie in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll. Now, we’ve got a third national poll showing the two people at the top [...]

Newt Gingrich has fallen into a statistical tie with Mitt Romney in the latest Gallup poll, mirroring his decline in other recent surveys.

During the two weeks or so that Newt Gingrich was skyrocketing in the polls, there seemed to be some chance that the former Speaker would threaten Mitt Romney’s previously insurmountable lead in New Hampshire. While there were a few polls that seemed to show Gingrich closing in on Romney, that no longer seems to be [...]

A new ground game in Iowa?

There are some small signs out there that seem to suggest that Newt Gingrich is start to slip in the polls even further than I noted in my post late last week. With the country heading into the holidays, when people will be paying less attention to the candidates, this could be a problem for [...]

We’re just about finishing up with the pre-game show, and already it’s pretty clear that the public isn’t looking forward to the upcoming election campaign: PRINCETON, NJ — With the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses serving as the kickoff of voting in the 2012 presidential election campaign, Americans would likely prefer to fast-forward to the end [...]

The Washington Examiner’s Timothy Carney offers some good practical advice on how to read all the polls that are going to be coming out over the next 11 months: 1) Never put too much weight on any one poll. If the latest poll tells you something different from the previous ones, wait to see if [...]

Signs that Newt Gingrich’s rise may be faltering.

A shocking new polls shows that most Americans would like to receive Social Security and not pay for it.

The former Speaker has the biggest lead of any candidate thus far in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

A new Gallup poll indicates that it is Big Government, not Big Business, that most concerns the American public.

A lesson in why the topline poll numbers are often only the beginning of the puzzle.

Once again, Americans hate Congress but seem to love their Congressperson.

There aren’t many glad tidings at the White House these days.

GOP officials are reluctant to resurrect the personal attacks against the President used during the 2008 campaign.

A new Gallup poll adds yet more detail to Newt Gingrich’s surge into first place in the Republican race for President, revealing that Gingrich is viewed as by far the most acceptable candidate by Republicans and Tea Party supporters: Newt Gingrich (62%) and Mitt Romney (54%) are the only two candidates Republicans say would be [...]

Paul Bedard takes a look at the President’s job approval numbers and find historical analogies that are likely to make them uncomfortable at the White House: President Obama’s slow ride down Gallup’s daily presidential job approval index has finally passed below Jimmy Carter, earning Obama the worst job approval rating of any president at this [...]

A not entirely surprising poll result from ABC News: Gingrich remains underwater in basic favorability, with more Americans seeing him unfavorably than favorably. Romney gets no better than an even split on this measure; Paul, roughly the same. Nonetheless, this poll, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates, finds that Romney’s favorability rating has advanced [...]

A new Gallup poll suggests that the Occupy movement hasn’t really caught the attention of the American public all that much: A new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows that the “Occupy” movement has failed to capture the attention of a majority of Americans, indicating either ambivalence toward it or lack of interest. The poll finds that [...]

A new poll appears to show Newt Gingrich surging in New Hampshire, but there are several caveats to take into account.

Public opinion on the Occupy movement has turned increasingly sour.

A new Bloomberg poll of likely Iowa caucus-goers has four candidates bunched at the top, but also shows the potential for a lot of fluidity over the next six weeks: Herman Cain, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are in a dead heat as the top choices for Iowans likely to attend the Jan. [...]

MSNBC is out with what they are touting as evidence that Rick Perry and Herman Cain have been hurt by their respective stumbles last week, but there’s some serious problems with their proof: After his flub at a Republican debate on Wednesday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has seen his support plummet among GOP primary voters, [...]

A new poll shows a plurality of people now have an unfavorable view of the Occupy movement.

A new Quinnipiac Poll seems to suggest that the public is starting to sour on the Occupy Wall Street movement: A sign that the Occupy Wall Street movement isn’t the best long-term vehicle for Democrats to connect themselves with: A new Quinnipiac poll, showing a plurality of voters viewing the group unfavorably. The poll, released [...]

By popular demand: An assessment of the latest polling numbers.

Don’t confuse modest bumps in a polling trend with actual changes in the thing being polled.

Gallup would seem to indicate that the real protests should be on Capitol Hill, not Wall Street: Americans are more than twice as likely to blame the federal government in Washington (64%) for the economic problems facing the United States as they are the financial institutions on Wall Street (30%). Both of these large entities [...]

President Obama’s poll numbers are sinking, but they’re still not low enough to make people think he’s worse than his predecessor: As low as President Barack Obama’s approval ratings might sink, Americans say he’s at least better than former President George W. Bush, a new poll shows. In fact, 48 percent of respondents said that [...]

One of the most prominent themes of the Occupy Wall Street protests has been the phenomenon of college graduates saddled with large student loan debt and no job. While there are no doubt anecdotal cases where this is true, and I’m not going to question the people who’ve posted those stores on the “We Are [...]

One in three U.S. veterans of the post-9/11 military believes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting.

Mitt Romney is once again the clear frontrunner for the Republican nomination.

Dick Morris has a penchant for counter-intuitive analysis. And for being wildly wrong.

The latest Gallup poll shows a record 81 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the nation is being governed.

President Obaama’s poll numbers are lower than where Reagan and Clinton were at this point, but not by very much.

The economy continues to drag the President down.

Public disapproval of Congress continues to fall.