How Important Are These Off-Year Races?
At the very least, the results in the governors' races, if not predictive, are quite likely to drive the political narrative, bolstering or diminishin...
At the very least, the results in the governors' races, if not predictive, are quite likely to drive the political narrative, bolstering or diminishin...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media
Might I take a moment to remind everyone that Cheney currently does not have a job? So why should I, or anyone, care about his approval rating? Nancy Pelosi, by contrast, is serving in a non-imaginary capacity.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
This month, the news for Obama fans is not bad. It's not get-up-and-cheer good, either, but it's a lot better than the news has been for the past two months.
AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
NEW YORK — Despite sweeping Democratic successes in the past two national elections, continuing job losses and President Barack Obama's slipping...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
The mixed signal from Obama and the flat rejection by Baucus is simply the latest in the long line of neon bright warnings that the public option will go when it's crunch time.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
The news for Obama fans continues to be bad this month. There may be a faint glimmer of a spark of hope in the numbers -- but that's about all I can promise here, sorry about that.
Pollster.com | Charles Franklin | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
David Brooks commented in his column yesterday "All presidents fall from their honeymoon highs, but in the history of polling, no newly elected Americ...
The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
A major factor in President Obama's slide in today's big Washington Post/ABC News poll, which is preoccupying the political classes today, is his surp...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
The news this month for Obama fans is not particularly good, as Obama has definitely ended his "honeymoon" period (which virtually all first-term presidents go through).
Washington Post | Jennifer Agiesta | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
Vice President Biden, the anointed "Sheriff" of the stimulus is well rated generally in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, with public opinion riven...
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
Obama's poll numbers have dropped this month -- a whopping one-and-a-half percentage points. Reports that the sky is falling may be overblown.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media
Greg Sargent takes stock in another round of opinion polling and discovers that the public, in general, is more approving of the Obama administration'...
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
The stability of Obama's numbers (especially the approval rating) continued in May, which is remarkable compared to other presidents during the same time period in their terms.
AP | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ― Gov. Tim Pawlenty's approval rating has hit a new low in the latest Star Tribune Minnesota Poll. Forty-eight percent of those po...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
In the clearest sign yet that CNN has maybe laid off all the wrong people, comes news that a poll has been created and edited by people who were vastly unclear on the whole concept of polling.
Raw Story | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics
Republicans appear to be bowing down left and right to conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh, even though most Americans view the radio talk show host unf...
David Moore | Posted 08.04.2008 | Media
Approval ratings of Congress elecit very different responses from those of the president. For the president, it's his personal popularity. For Congress, it's a general mood of the country.
ABC News | GARY LANGER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Beset by growing economic concerns on top of the long unpopular war in Iraq, President Bush starts the last year of his presidency with the worst appr...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
At this morning's press conference on Iran, serious talk eventually dwindled and the President made small talk with reporters. When conversation turn...
Associated Press | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
President Bush, entrenched in disputes with Congress over spending and the war in Iraq, wants to intensify pressure on lawmakers when he addresses the...
TPM Media | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Now this is curious. In the latest Gallup poll, more Republicans approve of the job Congress is doing than there are Democrats who approve. According ...
New York Times | ADAM NAGOURNEY | Posted 11.01.2009 | Politics