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Obama Poll Watch -- November, 2011

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.04.2012

Chris Weigant

This month Obama poll watchers got some good news, and some bad news. This was capped off by the Washington punditocracy making a stupid comparison between polling for Obama and Carter.

Tyler Kingkade

CHART: Poverty Is Up, But The Poor Are Paying The Most Taxes

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 11.27.2011

WASHINGTON -- Newly released U.S. Census data reveal that poverty levels have skyrocketed, but in most states, the tax systems disproportionally burde...

Tyler Kingkade

CHART: How Wide Is The Wealth Gap?

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 11.09.2011

WASHINGTON -- Listening to Republicans on the campaign trail or the House floor, one might think the quickest way to eliminate the deficit is to make ...

Obama Poll Watch -- June, 2011

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.05.2011

Chris Weigant

[Program Note: Last month, we ran this column four days before the end of May, due to travel plans. We promised we'd update the preliminary numbers i...

Obama Poll Watch -- May, 2011

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.27.2011

Chris Weigant

"What a difference a death makes." President Obama announced at the very beginning of the month that Osama bin Laden was dead, and his poll numbers reacted almost immediately.

Student Loan Debt Keeps Growing (CHART)

businessinsider.com | Joe Weisenthal | Posted 07.09.2011

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Obama Poll Watch -- April 2011

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.04.2011

Chris Weigant

April was a pretty miserable month for Barack Obama, mostly due to the high price of gasoline at the pump. But May is already shaping up to be one of Obama's best months ever, for one very obvious reason.

PHOTOS: 'My List Of Demands' Visualized

Posted 06.12.2011

Andrew Kuo narrates glimpses of his life through a variety of media. His life takes shape in the sculptures, graphs and paintings he makes. Kuo’s mi...

Obama Poll Watch -- March, 2011

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.04.2011

Chris Weigant

While catastrophic world events dominated the news for most of the month, Obama's approval rating was being hit with a creeping domestic problem -- the rising price of gasoline.

Obama Poll Watch -- January, 2011

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Weigant

When taken month-to-month, January, 2011, was Obama's best month of his entire presidency. Not only did he finally get his bump -- but it was a truly significant bump.

Obama Poll Watch -- December, 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Weigant

Obama once again charted an unbelievably stable month in terms of approval ratings. The mildly good news was in his disapproval rating, which dropped significantly over the course of December.

Obama Poll Watch -- November, 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Weigant

Obama just had his most stable month ever in the public opinion polls, capping off a remarkable year of polling stability. Were you to just read the headlines or listen to the soundbites, you may have a different impression.

Obama Poll Watch -- October 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Weigant

Obama's approval rating ended the month on somewhat of an upswing, at 46.1 percent.Obama's approval rating stayed remarkably steady all month long.

Obama Poll Watch -- September, 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Weigant

Last month I rashly wrote that since Obama was starting the month on an upswing, he had a good chance of posting largish gains in September. This didn't happen.

Marcus Baram

Real Misery Index Dropped During Summer Months, Hinting At Recovery

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

Though underemployment still looms over the economy, other encouraging signs of a recovery helped push down Huffington Post's Real Misery Index to 24 ...

Obama Poll Watch -- July, 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Weigant

July had some political successes for Obama, but the public once again didn't give him any credit for passing Wall Street reform, or any of the other achievements Obama chalked up.

Marcus Baram

Troop Death Ratio On The Rise In Afghanistan: More Troops, More Fatalities

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

The six U.S. troops who died in Afghanistan in recent days brings the death toll for July to at least 66, marking a grim milestone -- the deadliest m...

Friday Talking Points [122] -- Bikini Bottom Update

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Weigant

Since it's the Friday after month's-end, the new monthly unemployment numbers were released today. Which adds another bar to the "bikini bottom" char...

Obama Poll Watch -- April, 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Weigant

Obama seems to have hit a plateau in his approval ratings, which have remained largely unchanged for the past three months. Could it be that we've all just made up our minds about the job the president is doing?

Plurality of Americans Skeptical of Pro-Drilling Congressional Candidates

Josh Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Josh Nelson

The latest NBC/WSJ poll includes a number of interesting findings. Dave Weigel and Alex Seitz-Wald both took note of BP's extremely low favorability ...

Republican Opinions on Environmentalism have Shifted Drastically in the Past 10 Years

Josh Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Josh Nelson

In honor of Earth Day, Gallup has just released polling showing how American's opinions of the environmental movement have changed in the previous ten...

Offshore Drilling Most Popular Among Republicans, Elderly, White and Wealthy

Josh Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Josh Nelson

When President Obama announced recently that he'd open new coastal areas to offshore drilling, there was considerable speculation as to what the polit...

Obama Poll Watch -- May, 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Weigant

Will Obama's presidency wind up charting a similar course as Carter, or will he recover as Reagan did? Only a fool would even contemplate making such a prediction at this point, that's all that really can be said.

Obama Poll Watch -- March, 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Weigant

Everyone was looking for a healthy bounce in Obama's poll numbers after health reform passed. This bounce has either failed to materialize yet, or is so gradual it likely won't end up being called a "bounce."

Obama Poll Watch -- February, 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Weigant

The president's approval and disapproval numbers are within kissing distance. When will Obama turn this around? Will he turn this around?