Outside the Beltway

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.

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

A new ground game in Iowa?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.