Emily Swanson

According to a new Gallup poll released Friday, a majority of Americans support the proposed Buffett Rule, which would require individuals earning $1 million or more per year to pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes.

The survey found that 60 percent of adults support...

A new poll released Tuesday shows Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren with a narrow edge in the Massachusetts race, contradicting several other polls released in recent weeks that showed Republican Sen. Scott Brown in the lead.

The new poll, conducted March 16-18 by the Democratic-leaning firm Public Policy...

Although two polls released Monday suggested that President Barack Obama's approval rating might be dropping, several surveys released Tuesday and Wednesday have found that rating remains steady.

A new Pew poll, released Wednesday morning, found approval of Obama at 50 percent and disapproval at 41 percent....

Two new polls released this week show President Barack Obama's approval rating sinking since last month, and one finds Obama at a new all-time low. But other polls conducted around the same time fail to show an Obama plunge, suggesting that at least some of the dip could be statistical...

Democrat Elizabeth Warren is neck and neck with Republican Sen. Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race, according to a new poll released Tuesday.

The poll, conducted by Massachusetts think tank MassINC for the Boston NPR station WBUR, finds that 46 percent of likely voters in the...

Despite a victory in the Maine caucuses on Saturday, Mitt Romney has more to worry about after two new polls released Monday show him fighting to keep his lead among Republicans nationally and struggling to win favor from the conservative base.

A new Pew Research Center poll found...

WASHINGTON -- Three new surveys of South Carolina Republicans, all conducted since Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, show that the week's events have served to give new momentum to Ron Paul, sharply reverse Rick Santorum's brief rise and leave Mitt Romney running narrowly ahead of Newt Gingrich. While South Carolina remains...

Although most eyes are fixed on New Hampshire on the eve of the first-in-the-nation primary, new polls released Monday by the Pew Research Center and Gallup show Mitt Romney gaining ground among registered Republican voters nationally.

The latest Gallup daily tracking survey of the GOP primary...

New polls released Wednesday by Time magazine and CNN confirm that Newt Gingrich has shot into the lead in three of the four states with January primaries or caucuses and has crept to within 10 percentage points of Mitt Romney in the Romney stronghold of New Hampshire.

In...

In the wake of sexual harassment allegations against Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, a new poll released Tuesday by Gallup finds that Cain's lustre may be dimming among Republican primary voters. Cain's ratings still outstrip any other candidate in the pack, though, and he has yet to see...

Herman Cain is leading the Republican presidential primary race, according to a poll released Tuesday. Why the sudden surge? Cain's name recognition has skyrocketed in recent weeks, and he's been able to maintain an exceptionally positive image among those Republicans who've heard of him, another survey suggests.

Cain has a...

President Obama's approval rating sunk to a new low for the 11th quarter of his presidency, according to Gallup's daily polling of public opinion over the course of his presidency.

According to the new Gallup release, Obama's approval rating over the course of the 11th quarter was 41...

[UPDATE - 10:57 p.m. Wednesday]:

MSNBC reports that GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain leads the Republican field in the newest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. More details below:

Cain checks in as the first choice of 27 percent of Republican voters in the poll, followed by former Massachusetts...

Reid Wilson wonders if Obama's personal likability could help him overcome low approval ratings.

Seth Masket uses economic estimates to project Obama getting <51% of the 2012 vote.

Steve Singiser uses Gallup's Obama approval by state data to begin constructing electoral vote scenarios.

Following two weeks of economic turmoil that included the United States' first-ever credit downgrade and an unpredictable stock market, a new poll released Wednesday by Gallup finds President Barack Obama's approval rating on the economy has reached his all-time low.

The new poll, conducted Aug. 11-14, finds that...

Gym-tan-laundry over taxes-jobs-politics? From a look at social media, at least, eyes were turned to the Jersey Shore over the Ames Republican presidential debate Thursday night. In the absence of polls gauging the reactions of the debate's viewers, though, data on the few Twitter and Facebook users who did watch...

Republican presidential hopefuls will gather on Saturday to bring in supporters from around the state in an attempt to win the Ames Straw Poll. The poll will draw candidates, thousands of Iowans and a media circus, but past straw polls suggest that it is not a strong predictor of Iowa...

Following an already bad week of polling news for congressional Republicans, a new USA Today/Gallup poll finds that Democrats have taken the lead on the first generic congressional ballot poll of the 2012 campaign season.

The poll found that Democrats now have a 51 percent...

Members of Congress may be breathing more easily after negotiating an end to the protracted fight to increase the debt ceiling, but a new CNN poll finds that the reputations of members of Congress, and Republican leadership in particular, suffered in the wake of the rancorous process.

The...

As Washington has debated what to do about the debt ceiling, Americans have increasingly soured on the leaders of both parties. Two new national surveys out today show the job approval ratings of President Barack Obama and both the Democratic and Republican leaderships falling, as Americans express increasing anxiety about...