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NATO is still seen as essential by 62 percent of both EU and U.S. respondents, demonstrating that the transatlantic military bond is still, despite a rough decade, firmly entrenched in American and European views of the world.
When Barack Obama won Virginia in 2008, it was the first time a Democratic candidate for President had won the state since Lyndon Johnson’s landslide in 1964. The President was able to pull this off largely because of his ability to attract support from the white, middle class, independent voters in population rich Northern Virginia. [...]
The President’s jobs push isn’t doing much to help his job approval numbers so far.
A new poll shows that Americans are starting to look East.
President Obama’s job approval numbers may be in the tank, but he still plays well on the road: A full 75 percent of those surveyed in 12 European countries approved of Obama’s handling of “international policies,” according to the poll from Transatlantic Trends, a group that studies public opinion in the United States and the [...]
It’s only one poll, and conservatives will dismiss it because it comes from a “Democratic” polling firm (although I’d note that said firm had a higher accuracy rate in 2010 than many media polls, and far higher than Rasmussen). However, Public Policy Polling is out with a new poll that shows the first signs that [...]
If the new CNN/ORC poll is any indication, Rick Perry is a bit out of step with the public when it comes to Social Security: Tampa, Florida (CNN) – Most Americans believe the Social Security system needs major changes but they disagree with the characterization of Social Security as a lie and a failure, according [...]
Support for interracial marriage is now almost universal across America.
There was a somewhat disturbing moment during last night’s GOP Debate.
President Obama’s approval ratings are at an all-time low. Only 33% of whites and 48% of Hispanics approve. He’s still at 84% among blacks.
51.5 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s job performance. It’s still his race to lose.
With most of the public looking at the future and not seeing anything good, the President is suffering
Quinnipiac is the third recent polls, following on Gallup and Public Policy Polling, to show the President’s job approval numbers at a record low and on what seems to be a downward trend: President Barack Obama’s overall job approval rating has sunk to an all-time low, as American voters disapprove 52 – 42 percent, compared [...]
If the 2012 election really does come down to a referendum on the President and the economy, then Barack Obama could be in some trouble: Only a third of all Americans approve of how President Barack Obama is handling the economy, according to a new national survey. And with a CNN/ORC International Poll also indicating [...]
The debt ceiling debate may turn out to be Obama’s Katrina.
The Tea Party honeymoon may be coming to an end: Looks like it’s a little more popular to be a liberal or a progressive these days, although conservative remains the best political label you can put on a candidate for public office. Being linked to the Tea Party is the biggest negative. Rasmussen Reports periodically [...]
President Obama’s job approval numbers are even worse when you just look at the economy.
Do we have a new frontrunner in the race for the Republican nomination?
The first poll in the wake of Michele Bachmann’s victory at Ames and Rick Perry’s entry into the race shows a brand new frontrunner
It may only be a one-time fluke, or it could be the beginning of a trend. In either case, President Obama’s job approval number has fallen below 40% for the first time in his Presidency, according to the Gallup Daily Tracking Poll: President Obama’s summer woes have dragged his approval rating to an all-time low, [...]
State-level job approval numbers seem to suggest that the President could have Electoral College worries in 2012.
Non-rich people are in favor of taxing the rich and using the proceeds to fund programs for non-rich people
A new CNN/Opinion Research poll shows, not surprisingly, that Americans continue to become more pessimistic about the country’s economic future: Washington (CNN) – Americans have a bad case of the economic jitters, as recent drops in the stock market have been accompanied by a sharp rise in the public’s economic pessimism, according to a new [...]
David Weigel passes on this internal from the CBS/New York Times Poll: Bush has been out of office for nearly 31 months and yet more people still blame him for the state of the economy than they do the President of the United States. As Weigel says, there’s a reason why Democrats continue to bring [...]
In addition to the debt ceiling headaches, there’s news from Gallup that is likely not making President Obama happy today: President Obama’s job approval rating is at a new low, averaging 40% in July 26-28 Gallup Daily tracking. His prior low rating of 41% occurred several times, the last of which was in April. As [...]
If Mitt Romney looked in the rear view mirror he might just see Rick Perry gaining on him.
And no, that’s not a typo: Voter approval of the job Congress is doing has fallen to a new low – for the second month in a row. Just six percent (6%) of Likely U.S. Voters now rate Congress’ performance as good or excellent, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Last month, [...]
President Obama is polling at 46.8 percent, below the level needed to win re-election.
Signs, perhaps, that the public is coming to recognize that the debt kamikazes have no idea what they’re talking about: A majority of Americans say that Congress failing to raise the debt ceiling would be a real and serious problem, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Fifty-five percent of all respondents — [...]
According to a new CBS News poll, the GOP seems to be losing the public relations war over the debt ceiling negotiations: Americans are unimpressed with their political leaders’ handling of the debt ceiling crisis, with a new CBS News poll showing a majority disapprove of all the involved parties’ conduct, but Republicans in Congress [...]
A majority of Americans want to ban smoking in public; a fifth want to ban it even in private.
If you look at the polls, the GOP has several things to be concerned about in the debate over the debt ceiling.
In May, President Obama was, somewhat ridiculously, accused of throwing Israel under the bus for making a reference to a negotiating position that had been a cornerstone of U.S. policy since at least the Clinton Administration. Since then, there’s been some speculation that Jewish American support for the President was in jeopardy because of his [...]
Another sign of economic pessimism from the latest CBS/New York Times Poll: Nearly 4 in 10 Americans say they think the economy is in permanent decline, a new polls shows as deep pessimism about the economy becomes more widespread. Thirty-nine percent of those surveyed for a New York Times/CBS News poll released late Wednesday say [...]
It got criticism from the right, but the American public seems pretty pleased with the President’s plan to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan: An overwhelming majority of Americans support President Barack Obama’s plan to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, according to a new poll released Wednesday. In the Gallup survey, 72 percent of Americans say they [...]
A new Gallup poll discovers something rather obvious, but there’s still a lesson for the GOP.
Another indication that the public relations battle over Medicare is decidedly not going in the GOP’s favor: Representative Paul Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman who has become a star in the Republican Party with his plan to overhaul Medicare, is emerging as a polarizing figure among Americans. Twenty-six percent of people view the Wisconsin [...]
As the President prepares to announce his plans for the future in Afghanistan, a majority of Americans want the troops home now.
Democrats would like people to believe that supporting the Ryan Plan’s Medicare changes is so unpopular with the public that it will hurt the GOP at the polls, but that’s not necessarily the case: A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll asks Americans whether they would be more likely or less likely to vote for a candidate who [...]
Further evidence today that the GOP is losing the public relations war over the Ryan Plan and Medicare: A new national poll indicates that a majority of Americans don’t like what they’ve heard so far about congressional Republicans’ plans to change Medicare. According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey, a majority also don’t think the [...]
A majority of Americans think homosexuals account for at least a fifth of the population.
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani tops the latest CNN poll of Republican presidential contenders.
There have been no significant surveys of the Republican field taken since the announcement that frontrunners Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump and Establishment darling Mitch Daniels have dropped out of the race.
Via Politico: Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin jump to top in new Gallup poll With Mike Huckabee’s exit from the race, Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin are now on top of the Republican field, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday. Continue Reading Twenty percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters say they’d support the former Massachusetts [...]
Via Rasmussen: Daily Presidential Tracking Poll: Overall, 50% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president’s performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove. Of course, if we look at Rasmussen’s “Presdential Approval Index” we see that Obama is at a -7: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 27% of [...]
