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Obama Poll Watch -- November, 2011

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.04.2012

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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.

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Business Insider Uses Charts To Elucidate Precisely Why There Is An 'Occupy Wall Street' Movement

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.12.2011

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I daresay that after having to negotiate the piffle-marm from the editors of the New Republic, this piece from Henry Blodget over at Business Insider,...

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Obama Poll Watch -- June, 2011

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.05.2011

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[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...

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CHART: How Tracy Morgan Can Make Things Right

Posted 08.15.2011

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When an audience member at one of Tracy Morgan's recent stand-up shows took to Facebook to say he went on a terrible, homophobic rant, some people did...

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Obama Poll Watch -- May, 2011

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.27.2011

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"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.

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Chart: U.S. Debt Ceiling Explained

Posted 07.26.2011

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Congress, the White House and various political onlookers have been debating the seriousness of the U.S. debt ceiling and outlining different scenario...

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Obama Poll Watch -- April 2011

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.04.2011

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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.

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Obama Poll Watch -- March, 2011

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.04.2011

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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.

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Obama Poll Watch -- January, 2011

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Who Gives The Best Info? A Short History Of Information Design

Paula Scher | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last month, FAST COMPANY magazine published the best info-graphics of the year from their design blog. The choice was derived from FC's own postings o...

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Obama Poll Watch -- December, 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Obama Poll Watch -- November, 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Nine Ways Your Corporate Marketing Blog Can Fail

Tom Johansmeyer | Posted 05.25.2011

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There's no shortage of discussion around how corporate blogging and social media can help your company; most of it is high-level. Listen to the gurus ...

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Obama Poll Watch -- October 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Obama Poll Watch -- September, 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Obama Poll Watch -- July, 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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There's A New Music Chart Sheriff In Town

Tamara Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Napster, Twitter, Aol, Mtv, Charts, Music, Myspace, Microsoft Zune, Yahoo, Amazon, Entertainment News

BigChampagne Media Measurement has launched the Ultimate Chart (www.ultimatechart.com) - an unprecedented single source for music charts of the week's...

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On Removing Research 2000 Polls From Our Charts

Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

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When Markos ("Kos") Moulitsas published the analysis last week that convinced him that the polls produced by Research 2000 were "likely bunk" and anno...

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Obama Poll Watch -- April, 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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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?

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Obama Poll Watch -- May, 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Obama Poll Watch -- March, 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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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."

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World's Most Expensive Cities To Live In (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Despite its many charms, living in Paris in the midst of these lean economic times may come to seem even more untenable when you learn that it tops th...

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Obama Poll Watch -- February, 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Obama Poll Watch -- January, 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.03.2010

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After taking a look at Obama's numbers for the month, we continue our march backwards through history, this month serving up a comparison between Obama and Richard Nixon's term-and-a-half.

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Lundry: Graphing the Stimulus

Guest Pollster | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alex Lundry is a political pollster, microtargeter, data-miner and data-visualizer. He spends most of his time searching for big ideas hidden inside o...

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