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

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

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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Jason Linkins

Dem Strategy Memo Says The 'Good News' Is That Democrats Haven't Done Enough On Health Care Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Health Care Reform, Health Care Polling, Public Option, Polling, Senate Health Care Bill, Politics News

According to some new strategy memo that's going to fix everything, Democrats should not worry about all those polls that indicate an increasing oppos...

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Chris Cillizza: The Political Dangers Of Passing A Health Care Bill

Washington Post | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: #Hcr, Harry Reid, Senate, White House, Public Option, Polling, Senate Health Care Bill, Health Care Reform, Obama, Democrats, Health Care, Status Quo, Politics News

The White House -- as we wrote yesterday -- is dead set on passing the health care bill and will stop at nothing politically to get it done. But, ...

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Jason Linkins

This Day In Fox News Polling, Nobel Prize Edition [UPDATED]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Polls, Fox News, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Polling, Poll, Nobel Peace Prize, Media News

On the occasion of President Barack Obama's acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, Fox News set up a poll on their website that is just a thing of wonde...

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Jason Linkins

Will Fox News Enforce Its "Zero Tolerance" Policy On Recent Error? [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Polls, Zero-Tolerance-Policy, Fox News Errors, Polling, Media Criticism, Media Matters, Fox News, Innumeracy, Media News

Back in November Fox News Channel, in response to a series of widely reported on-air mistakes, issued a memo that stated: Effective immediately, ther...

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Obama Poll Watch -- Scraping Fifty Percent

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

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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Death Wish Politics

Mike Lux | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance Companies, Deficit, 2009 Obama Administration, 2010 Elections, Polling, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Individual Mandate, Jobs, Death Wish Politics, Politics News
Mike Lux

Democrats have to figure out how to produce real benefits for real people now. Rather than bragging about the signs of progress in the economy when voters don't feel them yet, Democrats need to focus on jobs.

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The Foolish Strategery of Democrats Who Oppose Health Care Reform

Mike Lux | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Young People, Health Care Reform, Elections, Latinos, Electoral Strategy, Polling, Unmarried Women, Voting, Politics News
Mike Lux

For some perspective on the wisdom of the Democrats who are opposing health care reform, let's look at the elections last Tuesday.

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Jason Linkins

Dick Cheney's Job Approval Rating: Why Does Anyone Care?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Polls, Approval Ratings, Joe Scarborough, Twitter, Polling, Glenn Greenwald, Dick Cheney, Media News

Might I take a moment to remind everyone that Cheney currently does not have a job? So why should I, or anyone, care about his approval rating? Nancy Pelosi, by contrast, is serving in a non-imaginary capacity.

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Arlen Specter 2010: Ominous Signs For Specter's Re-Election Bid

Politics Daily | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Susquehanna Polling Research Survey, Poll, Democrats, Chances, Losing, Specter 2010, Toomey vs. Specter, Senate, Specter Re-Election, Pennsylvania, Polling, Democratic Party, Toomey, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Winning, Sestak, Gop, Pat Toomey, Odds, Joe Sestak, Politics News

Although Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter leads his Democratic primary opponent and is running neck-and-neck in a general election matchup against Repu...

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Decision Day For Democrats: Poll Shows Path to Healthcare Reform

John Zogby | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

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John Zogby

This is the fork in the road for the Senate's Democratic leaders: they must choose between the tort lawyers and a health care bill that could re-unite a country that has turned against the present bill.

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Obama Poll Watch: Obama Halts His Slide

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

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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Jason Linkins

Investor's Business Daily Publishes Ludicrous Poll Claiming 45% Of Doctors Would Quit Over Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Reform, Polls, fivethirtyeight.com, Polling, Media News

Hey, kids! Have you heard the one about the poll that indicates that 65% of doctors are against health care reform, and that 45% of doctors hate it s...

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We Are Much More Than a Fiscal Watchdog

Tim Roeper | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media

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Tim Roeper

Jason Linkins got some things wrong about the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, and we feel compelled to clear the air.

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Instant Reaction Polls: A Pre-Speech Primer

Mark Blumenthal | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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Mark Blumenthal

The odds are good that after Obama's health care address, at least two television networks will release results from "instant reaction" surveys. Odds are almost as good that pundits will misread those surveys.

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Obama Poll Watch [August 2009] -- Obama's Base Support Erodes

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

The news for Obama fans continues to be bad this month. There may be a faint glimmer of a spark of hope in the numbers -- but that's about all I can promise here, sorry about that.

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Apparently, You CAN Fool All of the People All of the Time

Brian Ross | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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Brian Ross

We are a fear-driven culture. There is a large segment of the population that, no matter how well you document it, will not let a good fact get in the way of their fears about health care reform.

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A Pollster's Advice: Don't Trust the Polls on Health Reform's Demise

Jeremy Rosner | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

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Jeremy Rosner

If polls about policy proposals don't accurately predict legislative outcomes, why do so many people focus on them?

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Can I Trust This Poll? Part II

Mark Blumenthal | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

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Mark Blumenthal

There's a clash between traditional and new polling methods. Here, I review the philosophies at work behind efforts to evaluate polls and offer a few suggestions about what we can do to assess whether poll samples are truly representative.

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Obama Poll Watch, July 2009: The Honeymoon's Over

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

The news this month for Obama fans is not particularly good, as Obama has definitely ended his "honeymoon" period (which virtually all first-term presidents go through).

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Jason Linkins

Economist: U.S. More Permissive Of Torture Than China

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

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Yesterday, The Economist posted poll numbers on global attitudes towards torture, pulled from 2008 research conducted by World Public Opinion. The Ec...

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Jason Linkins

Polls Show That People Don't Know What They Want But They Want It Right Now (And The Rest Of Your Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media

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Sometimes, our political leaders are incoherent in their own unique ways. On other occasions, it's clear that they are just reflecting the incoherenc...

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Interactive Polling Gains Wide Acceptance

John Zogby | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Online Survey, Online Poll, Internet Acceptance, Polling, Zogby Poll, Internet Use Us, Internet Poll, Media News
John Zogby

Acceptance of the Internet is deeper than just news. In a survey, fully 14 percent said that, as a national priority, universal access to the Internet is more important than universal access to healthcare.

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The Poll Is Dead; Long Live the Poll

Adam Rose | Posted 11.02.2009 | Media

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Adam Rose

Pollsters treat polling more like a science, when it's really an art. The question is, why pretend it's something it isn't?

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Con Games: Conservatism In Reality

Michael Conniff | Posted 08.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Climate Change, Polling, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Resignation, Conservatives, Effects of Climate Change, Neoconservatives, Entertainment News
Michael Conniff

Two out of every three Republicans believe news of global climate change is "exaggerated" -- the same margin as those who want Sarah Palin to remain "a major national political figure."

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