Congressional Democrats have reached a milestone with the highest recorded approval ratings since the party took control of both chambers in the 2006 ...
Washington Post | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics
Days after passing President Obama's massive economic stimulus plan, new polling numbers from Gallup show that Congress' job approval ratings have gai...
Steven Shehori | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics
When asked to reveal the identity of the giant America-shaped landmass found on the map, several of those polled were decidedly varied in their answers.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Forget the circular firing squad among Republicans, now is the time for pollsters and analysts to take a look and figure out who got the statistics ga...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Even though every political and statistical indication points to an Obama victory tonight -- and a healthy one at that -- a certain brand of liberal p...
Jeremy Ben-Ami | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
Let's hope the real victor in 2008 is the Jewish community -- as it finally excises the politics of fears and smears and forces candidates to debate the issues on the merits.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics
But where is the love? When was the last time you heard about this demographic juggernaut on Morning Joe? Where are the network stories or the feature articles in newspapers or magazines?
FP | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
Courtesy of Foreign Policy magazine and Gallup, this interactive world map shows how the rest of the world would vote, were they allowed to, in this h...
Deanie Mills | Posted 11.08.2008 | Home
I couldn't take it. I was running all around the Internet, searching frantically, desperately, for someone, ANYONE who could SHOW ME THE GRAPH!!!
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home
Karl Rove's campaign style, predicated on the assumption that the majority of people are gullible and can be taken advantage of, seems to have gone the way of trickle-down economics.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics
As Tom Edsall writes today, Barack Obama appears to have reversed his recent downward trend in several polls, coming out of a nosedive. But also of no...
Adam McKay | Posted 10.09.2008 | Media
"Stop saying that!" my wife says to me. But this is not a high school football game and I'm not a cheerleader with a bad attitude. This is an election and as things stand now, we're gonna frickin' lose this thing.
Politico | DAVID PAUL KUHN | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama met the 50 percent threshold for the first time Tuesday in the Gallup daily tracking poll, a symbolic hurdle that until now had eluded th...
Beverly Davis | Posted 09.30.2008 | Home
Palin will now be vetted by the national press and the blogosphere and it won't be pretty. She's got six short weeks to learn foreign and economic policy. The honeymoon is over.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
Don't buy into the media narrative that this is some sort of "divided party" -- because today's Democrats aren't. All true Democrats are pulling hard to defeat the legacy of George W. Bush.
Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 09.14.2008 | Green
Rather than pushing a direct green agenda, a more effective approach is to grab people where they are hurting the most, at the pocketbook.
Alan Abramowitz | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics
I'm sure the Gallup folks would like us to forget it, but it's worth recalling just how well their likely voter screen performed in the weeks leading up to the 2000 election.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics
If your heart stops with every dip and bump registered by Gallup's daily tracking poll, here's some welcome news: the race is more stable than you mig...
Sandy Goodman | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics
Obama has his work cut out for him. He must find a way to combat McCain's so far successful campaign of character assassination or risk losing the election.
Alan Abramowitz | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
There's something suspicious about the results of the new USA Today/Gallup Poll: how does Gallup get from a 47-44 Obama lead among registered voters to a 49-45 McCain lead among likely voters?
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
Over at USA Today's "On Politics" blog, stories about polls come stamped with the following disclaimer: "WARNING! Polls are snapshots of public opinio...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
Today, the Gallup polling firm was for Barack Obama's lead over John McCain before they were against it. If that sounds complicated, it's only the be...
Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 07.19.2008 | Business
We all have weaknesses. What are yours? I'm not talking about jiggly thighs or belly flab. I'm talking about all those "needs improvement" areas tha...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
Earlier today, Jonathan Martin of The Politico noted that John McCain was prominently featuring a picture of he and President George W. Bush standing ...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics