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Reducing the Deficit Through Foreign Aid

David Weiss | Posted 05.21.2013 | World
David Weiss

Providing foreign aid means making a long-term investment in developing our aid partners, which results in both trade and security benefits for the U.S.

Mark Blumenthal

What Went Wrong? Gallup Shares New Details

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.19.2013 | Politics

BOSTON -- Gallup, the company that has faced intense criticism after its polling consistently understated President Barack Obama's support during the ...

Will Gay Marriage Change Society For The Better? Few Americans Say Yes

Posted 05.13.2013 | Gay Voices

Numerous surveys have consistently shown that Americans' support for same-sex marriage has been growing steadily for some time -- but a new Gallup pol...

GOP Problem That Won't Be Easy To Fix Revealed

Washington Post | Posted 04.02.2013 | Politics

Asked to name the single thing that they disliked the most about the Republican party, one in five people in a new Gallup poll said the GOP was "infle...

W's Iraq War

Joe Peyronnin | Posted 05.19.2013 | World
Joe Peyronnin

Ten years ago today the U.S. invaded Iraq with the goals of toppling Saddam Hussein, destroying its weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), and freeing its people. Now, a decade later, Hussein is dead, but no WMDs were ever found, and the country has devolved into a de facto civil war.

Mark Blumenthal

Polling Update May Help Explain Why Gallup Blew The Election

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Blumenthal | Posted 03.08.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Gallup, which has long touted itself as the most trusted survey brand in the world, is facing a crisis. If Barack Obama's reelection in ...

And The Happiest State Is...

24/7 Wall St. | Michael B. Sauter, Alexander E. M. Hess and Samuel Weigley | Posted 03.01.2013 | Healthy Living

24/7 Wall St.: According to a Gallup poll released today, the United States has shown almost no improvement in well-being in the past five years, ...

How Does The World View America?

Posted 02.26.2013 | World

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, do Americans see the U.S. as a global Cinderella or the world's ugly stepsister? According to a new Gallup...

SBA Resorts to Propaganda and Pixie Dust

Susan Wilson Solovic | Posted 04.27.2013 | Business
Susan Wilson Solovic

Small businesses continue to struggle and have been the hardest hit by the economic conditions of the last several years. Promoting propaganda and sprinkling pixie dust won't change a thing. Shame on the SBA.

WATCH: Are You The 'Most Stressed Generation'?

The Huffington Post | Krystie Yandoli | Posted 02.12.2013 | Teen

Apparently, half of all millennials are so stressed out that they can't sleep at night, and 39 percent of millennials have stress levels that have inc...

Survey Identifies The Most Stressed Out Generation

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 05.02.2013 | Healthy Living

Half of all millennials say their stress keeps them awake at night, according to a recent "Stress in America" survey from the American Psychological A...

The Key to Prosperity: Manufacturing American Jobs

Ed Crego, George MuƱoz and Frank Islam | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics
Ed Crego, George MuƱoz and Frank Islam

It appears that the national conversation may be about to pivot from an almost obsessive concentration on big government and expense reduction to a concern for the well-being of the individual citizen and revenue generation.

Do You Think You'll Be Better Off Than Your Parents?

The Huffington Post | Carolyn Gregoire | Posted 05.02.2013 | Teen

Despite a faltering economy, high unemployment and underemployment among recent college grads, and escalating college tuition costs, U.S. youth overwh...

Polling Firm, Paper Dissolve 20-Year Partnership

The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 01.18.2013 | Politics

USA Today and Gallup are ending their 20-year polling partnership, both organizations announced Friday. The two organizations have been partners si...

'God Is Alive And Well In America'

Religion News Service | Daniel Burke | Posted 01.08.2013 | Religion

By Daniel Burke Religion News Service (RNS) Despite a deep drop in the number of Americans who identify with a particular faith, the country could...

Ariel Edwards-Levy

Poll Shows Mixed Opinions On Fiscal Cliff Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 01.04.2013 | Politics

In the waning days of 2012, many Americans weren't sure the fiscal cliff could be avoided. Now that a deal has been reached, they are divided on what ...

Emily Swanson

Support For Stricter Gun Laws Soars In Poll

HuffingtonPost.com | Emily Swanson | Posted 12.27.2012 | Politics

Support for tighter gun control laws continues to rise in the wake of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll, ...

Poll: Confidence In Fiscal Cliff Deal Drops

The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 12.26.2012 | Politics

Americans' confidence in the possibility of a fiscal-cliff deal dipped last week as members of Congress left for the holidays, according to a Gallup p...

Making Friends Takes a Lot of Energy. Is It Worth It?

Shasta Nelson, M.Div. | Posted 02.02.2013 | Healthy Living
Shasta Nelson, M.Div.

May you be reminded that your willingness to engage, to meet new people, to initiate the next get-together, to schedule women into your life and to foster these friendships over time is proving to raise your wellbeing! And don't we all want that?

Members Of Congress Edge Out Car Salesmen For Dubious Honor

The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 12.03.2012 | Politics

Americans are about as likely to trust members of Congress as they are car salespeople, according to a Gallup poll released Monday surveying opinions ...

New Poll Reveals Dismally Low Rating For Journalists

Posted 12.03.2012 | Media

Another poll released on Monday revealed the public's less-than-warm opinion of the press. A new Gallup poll on perceived honesty and ethical stan...

Poll: Election Gives Obama Bump In Key Rating

The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 11.16.2012 | Politics

Everything looks better in hindsight, apparently. President Barack Obama's favorable rating bounced to 58 percent post-election, the highest it's bee...

What Are the Big Surprises of Election 2012?

Mike Lux | Posted 01.02.2013 | Politics
Mike Lux

So will 2012 give us some surprises? Almost certainly. The thing about surprises is that they are hard to predict, but the biggest surprise for me would be an election result that looked exactly like the current polling and prognostication predicts.

Is Presidential Race a Dead Heat? We Really Don't Know

David Paul | Posted 12.30.2012 | Politics
David Paul

The unknowns as we head down to the wire are significant. If the ground game is not accurately taken into account, as Obama advisor David Axelrod suggests, no doubt polling firms are struggling to account for the air war as well.

Emily Swanson

Polling vs. Frankenstorm: How The Weather May Cloud Election Picture

HuffingtonPost.com | Emily Swanson | Posted 10.26.2012 | Politics

With Hurricane Sandy potentially set to hit wide swaths of the East Coast, Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of the Gallup poll, suggested Friday that th...