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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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Tracking The Harry Potter Buzz On Twitter (GRAPHS)

Posted 09.14.2011

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"Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2" debuted during the wee hours of Friday morning, and judging by the throngs of spellbound fans who sacrif...

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Explaining The Debt Ceiling Debate

Posted 09.10.2011

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Here's a chart that explains all of modern politics -- and especially the debt ceiling debate.

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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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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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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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PHOTOS: 'My List Of Demands' Visualized

Posted 06.12.2011

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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...

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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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Fareed Zakaria: 'Rest Of The World Has Begun To Catch Up' To U.S.

Posted 05.25.2011

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Hans Rosling of Sweden's Karolinska Institute shares some interesting data with Fareed Zakaria on CNN's upcoming special, 'Restoring the American Drea...

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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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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 -- 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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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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The Obama Administration is Discouraging Entrepreneurship by Preaching That Taking Risk is Evil

Jerry Chautin | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama and his risk-aversive legislators are sending the wrong message to America's entrepreneurs. They equate risk taking with wanton greed and evildoing.

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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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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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Fifteen Amazing Stock Market Charts

Henry Blodget | Posted 05.25.2011

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There's no way to really understand the meaning of the investment mantra "stocks for the long run," unless you understand how long the long run can really be. And how long can it be? Long.

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Dec. '09 Obama Poll Watch -- Below Fifty, But Stabilizing

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's time once again for Obama Poll Watch -- our monthly look back at Obama's approval ratings for the previous month.

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Obama Poll Watch: Obama Halts His Slide

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Obama Poll Watch -- Scraping Fifty Percent

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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November wasn't a particularly good month for President Obama in the polls. Not disastrous by any means, but not very cheerful either. For the first time, Obama's numbers flirted with going below 50 percent.

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