Outside the Beltway

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

The debt ceiling debate may turn out to be Obama’s Katrina.

How would a Democrat-equivalent of Rick Perry be received?

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

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

If Mitt Romney looked in the rear view mirror he might just see Rick Perry gaining on him.

Are the new crop of GOP governors too conservative?

President Obama is polling at 46.8 percent, below the level needed to win re-election.

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.

A new Gallup poll discovers something rather obvious, but there’s still a lesson for the GOP.

As the President prepares to announce his plans for the future in Afghanistan, a majority of Americans want the troops home now.

President Obama comfortably leads all Republicans but one.

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.

The bungled politics of the Ryan plan.

President Obama’s approval numbers shot up after Osama bin Laden was killed two weeks ago. They’ve already settled back to where they were

The Pew Center is out with a new political typology.

The defense of torture as an extreme measure for extraordinary circumstances has evolved.tortu

There’s not much movement in the President’s job approval numbers.

The GOP seems to be losing the public relations battle over deficit reduction.

Americans are rallying around the President in the wake of the mission against bin Laden, but it’s likely to be short-lived.