Margie Omero

New Gallup polling suggests the joys of motherhood can bring added challenges. Employed women without kids at home experience less worry, sadness, stress, and anger than moms of kids at home, be they currently employed or not. Moms, by contrast, report more struggles.

But the most striking finding...

In the wake of Obama's recent announcement on marriage equality, a few outlets have tried to identify how, if at all, voters might react in November. And while polls show the issue might affect how some vote, all three outlets found this to be far more true of Republicans. But...

Moms are on our minds. A single comment a few weeks ago erupted into a full-scale battle in the so-called "Mommy Wars," where moms, allegedly, stew in ready-to-boil tensions between those who work outside the home and those who don't. But my firm's recent bipartisan qualitative work suggests...

These days, the gun debate is not about whether one has the right to own a gun, but about how to balance those existing rights against the need to prevent gun violence. But while the debate has changed, polling questions have not. Pew released some tracking this week...

It's a mistake to assume birth control is solely a "woman's issue." As others have pointed out (even Rush!), men participate in birth control, too. And as I've written before, nearly every gender/party group supports full coverage of birth control. Now polling released today...

Never mind Romney's hackneyed caricature of the South being only about grits and y'all. Recent PPP polling might tempt some to unearth other hackneyed caricatures about Southerners and social issues. But in fact, there are fewer differences between Southern Republicans and voters overall than you might...

Republican women may have flirted with Rick Santorum, but they're now less interested in going all the way. In the early contests, Santorum did better with women than with men. And he did better relative to Romney with women than with men. As Republican leaders have become increasingly...

As I wrote about here and here, birth control coverage may be controversial in Washington, but it's not controversial with voters overall. Subsequent polling continues to show this to be true. While Politico incorrectly calls the polling "closely divided," any differences are due to...

The War on Women is burning on a few fronts (even including a War on Girls), with some Republicans charging up the hill and others wisely quitting and running. But a Quinnipiac Poll released today shows men more likely to think the GOP candidates understand the...

Republican male leaders have become sneeringly, cartoonishly out of touch with women, even those in their own party.

Today a Congressional hearing ignited when House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (CA) refused to seat a female witness after hearing an all-male panel of birth control coverage opponents, calling the witness...

It's 2012, but to hear the Right talk about birth control, and "emotional" women in the workforce and the military, one might think we're trapped in Downton Abbey's 1914. Is this another example of Republicans staking out positions far outside the mainstream? Or do voters oppose coverage of...

Today the Washington Post/ABC News released a survey showing Obama over majority support among registered voters (51% Obama, 45% Romney). But as Romney's pollster Neil Newhouse (a partner in the firm Public Opinion Strategies) pointed out in a blast email, the poll asked about a few of Romney potential liabilities...

It's long been a truism of polling that voters hate Congress, but like their own Congressperson. Well, in targeted Republican-held Congressional districts, that's no longer true. Yesterday PPP released a flurry of surveys commissioned by House Majority PAC, and in nearly every district, the Republican members were very...

Today, Univision/ABC/Latino Decisions released a national survey of Latinos, with a larger sample of Florida Latinos. The poll shows Romney besting Gingrich in the primary (both in Florida and nationally) and Obama trouncing both in the general.

But the poll has a clear flaw in...

Are there racial differences in self-reported stress and self-esteem? Perhaps, suggests a great survey released this week by the Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation. (There's a lot of great data in the extensive survey, and it's worth checking out the multiple articles and

This New York Times story on the latest New York Times/CBS poll suggests that Obama is faltering with independents, portending electoral vulnerability. But their own data show that all the remaining Republican candidates are unpopular with voters nationally. No wonder Republican primary voters continue to be...

Gallup released tracking today of some of the gun questions it's been asking since the 1990s, and in one case, since 1959. The results got picked up by Politico, with the headline "Don't take away guns." Sure! There is not currently a national effort (or to...

Despite coverage of the Occupy Wall Street, confusion about the protests' message abounds. And attitudes toward Wall Street, such as blame for the economic crisis, are volatile. Meanwhile polls also show blame toward Obama is largely constant, and voters continue to blame former President Bush most of all.

A recent...

Republicans feel they've seized a winning talking point by labeling as "class warfare" Obama's plan to ask the wealthiest to pay a bit more in taxes. Is that label sticking? And does it hurt?

First, growing income inequality is a fact, not a talking point. And Americans are...

These days, with Congress receiving record low approval ratings, and with the Federal Government receiving lower ratings than the oil and gas industries, Americans don't want Washington in charge of much. My firm's recent poll for Mayors Against Illegal Guns convincingly shows Americans don't...