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What Did a US-Funded Poll Say About a Karzai First-Round Victory?

Robert Naiman | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

Read More: Daily Telegraph, Abdullah Abdullah, Hamid Karzai, Polls, Washington Post, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Election, World News
Robert Naiman

The Telegraph is claiming that a US funded poll indicates Hamid Karzai will not win re-election as President of Afghanistan. But the Washington Post reported the same poll differently.

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The GOP's White Guy Fix

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Senate Republicans, California Gop, White Males, White Votes, Gop, Racism, Southern Strategy, Rush Limbaugh, Democrats, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The GOP has draw up a canny, political game plan to re-energize and reorganize its oldest, and most dependable base, white males.

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Obama's Second Hundred Days

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Jackson, Supreme Court, Latina, Sessions, Burris, Empathy, A Tale of Two Cities, Al Franken, Reform, Dickens, Sarah Palin, Second 100 Days, Muslim, Latino, Sotomayor, Health Care, Analog Television, Birthers, Age of Foolishness, Budget, Democrat, Congress, Sanford, Democrats, Barack Obama, Transparency, Rahm Emanuel, First Hundred Days, Health, Sonia Sotomayor, Credit Card, Souter, Healthcare, Senate, Polls, Mark Sanford, Cap and Trade, Gates, President Obama, Cia, Speech, Second Hundred Days, Jeff Sessions, David Souter, Flu, Obama, Democratic, Iraq, Media, Scotus, Republican, Bush, Pelosi, Television, Iran, Gay Rights, Nuclear Weapons, Baucus, Russia, Beer Summit, Arlen Specter, Credit Card Reform, House, Specter, Photo Op, Msm, Beer, Franken, Worst of Times, Charles Dickens, Roland Burris, Gay, Mainstream Media, Waterloo, Best of Times, First 100 Days, Torture Photos, Chris Weigant, Palin, Cairo, Max Baucus, Bipartisanship, Torture, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Our look back at Obama's second 100 days will begin with a short overview, and then move on to the categories: "the best of times," "the worst of times," and "the age of (media) foolishness."

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

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Polls, Obama Polls, President Obama, Monthly Polls, Honeymoon, Obamapollwatch, Trendline, Poll, Obama, Disapproval, Charts, Bush, Approval Ratings, Clinton, Polling, Data, Sotomayor, Opinion Polls, Health Care, Obama Approval, Obama Poll Watch, Graph, Trend, Daily Polls, Chart, Bill Clinton, Undecided, Approval Rating, Barack Obama, Bush First Term, Job Approval, Realclearpolitics, Obama Poll Numbers, Opinion Poll, Chris Weigant, Poll of Polls, Health Care Reform, Graphs, George W Bush, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Pollster, Politics News
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

Read More: Polls, Polling, Media Criticism, Journalism, Torture, Politics News

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

Read More: Taxes, Polls, Senate Judiciary Committee, Saturday Night Live, Polling, Slate, Media Criticism, Amy Poehler, Wall Street Journal, Dahlia Lithwick, Taxation, Sonia Sotomayor, Poetry, Media News

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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Don't Believe the Hype: Support for Health Care Reform is Still Fundamentally Strong

Andrew Baumann | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Health Care Reform, Health Care Debate, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Health Care Reform Polls, Politics News
Andrew Baumann

The underlying dynamics of the health care debate haven't changed and polls show strong support for reform.

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Obama's Gates Trainwreck

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Backlash, Henry Louis Gates, President Obama, Harvard, sgt.james Crawley, Race, Health Care, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Obama spoke from the heart and said what needed to be said about the thorny issue of racial profiling. No apology needed for that. He just said it in the wrong case and at the wrong time.

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Jason Linkins

Iowa Is Curious Outlier On All Time Magazine Polls

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Polls, Iowa, Charlie Gibson, Jon Stewart, Katie Couric, Media News, Time Magazine, Brian Williams, Media News

Iowa seems to have a tortured relationship with Time Magazine polls! In the Trusted Newsman poll, Iowa results favored Katie Couric, by a wide margin. But the overall results placed Couric in last place.

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Americans, Not Washington, Will Determine Health Care. So Where's the Grassroots Movement?

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Congress, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Breaking Politics News, Washington Post, Abc, Health Care, Gallup, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News
Jennifer Donahue

When President Obama takes his case for health care to the American people tonight, his job is this: re-energize the large base of Americans who were adamant about the issue a year ago.

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Obama's Approval Rating On Health Care Falls Below 50 Percent: WashPost/ABC Poll

Washington Post | Dan Balz and Jon Cohen | Posted 08.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Obama, Poll, Washington Post Poll, Obama Approval Rating, Barack Obama, Politics News

Heading into a critical period in the debate over health-care reform, public approval of President Obama's stewardship on the issue has dropped below ...

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The Poll Is Dead; Long Live the Poll

Adam Rose | Posted 11.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Polls, urtak.com, Polling, Collaborative Public Opinion, Collaborative Poll, Public Opinion, Urtak, Crowdsource Poll, Media News
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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CSM, WSJ Respond to Criticism of Claim of Plurality for Honduran Coup

Robert Naiman | Posted 08.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Polls, Honduras Coup, Associated Press, New York Times, Honduras, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Foreign Policy, Voice of America, Media News
Robert Naiman

The discrepancy between the different press reports last week is now explained. But questions remain. Did these outlets rely on La Prensa as their sole source, and if so, why?

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Obama Poll Watch (June 2009) -- Obama v. Clinton (Second Term)

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Obama Polls, President Obama, Monthly Polls, Honeymoon, Trendline, Poll, Obama, Disapproval, Charts, Clinton First Term, Approval Ratings, Clinton, Polling, Data, Opinion Polls, President Clinton, Obama Approval, Graph, Trend, Daily Polls, Chart, Bill Clinton, Undecided, Approval Rating, Barack Obama, Job Approval, Realclearpolitics, Obama Poll Numbers, Opinion Poll, Chris Weigant, Poll of Polls, Clinton Second Term, Graphs, Obama Poll Watch, Pollster, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Obama's poll numbers have dropped this month -- a whopping one-and-a-half percentage points. Reports that the sky is falling may be overblown.

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Jason Linkins

Public Registers Stronger Support For White House Foreign Policy Than Domestic

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Polls, Approval Ratings, Polling, National Security, Domestic Policy, Health Care, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Media News

Greg Sargent takes stock in another round of opinion polling and discovers that the public, in general, is more approving of the Obama administration'...

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Jason Linkins

NYT Poll Indicates Even Republicans Back Public Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Polls, Media and Polls, Polling, Public Option, Health Care, Media Criticism, Politics News

Allies of health care reform suggest that, if enacted, a public health care option will help make health care affordable, and will get us off the path...

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Cockeyed Optimists or Self-Fulfilling Prophets?

Jodie Allen | Posted 07.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Polls, Obama Optimism, Haves and Have Nots, Economy, Pew Research Center, Business News
Jodie Allen

Are average Americans prescient predictors of the state of the economy? Incurable believers in a better tomorrow? Or carriers in an epidemic of Obama Optimism?

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Jason Linkins

Public Strongly Supports Public Health Care Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Polls, Joe Scarborough, Public Option, Media Criticism, Deficits, Jim Cramer, Health Care Reform, Media News

Yesterday, what prompted CNBC's Jim Cramer to suggest that President Barack Obama needed "to go away for a little bit," was a poll, whose numbers indi...

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Jason Linkins

WaPo Fires Dan Froomkin, Stalwart Voice On Torture (And The Rest Of Your Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Polls, Twitter, Environmental Policy, Media Criticism, Defense Policy, Dan Froomkin, Iran, Defense Spending, Iran Elections, Torture, Media News

I have to say that I greet today's decision by the Washington Post to fire blogger and columnist Dan Froomkin to be both sad and alarming. Froomkin h...

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Obama Hits The Wall

Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Politics, President Obama, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Public Opinion, Poll, Health Insurance, Health Care, Politics News
Eric Schmeltzer

In the era of instant gratification, letting the President's economic plans take root and grow doesn't lend itself to an immediate impact

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Conservatives Shift In Favor Of Openly Gay Service Members

The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Gays in the Military, Conservatives Gays in the Military, Politics News

A new Gallup poll shows that 69 percent of Americans are now in favor of openly gay men and women serving in the military, up from 63 percent five yea...

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Obama Poll Watch [May 2009] -- Obama v. Clinton (First Term)

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Obama Polls, President Obama, Monthly Polls, Honeymoon, Trendline, Poll, Obama, Disapproval, Charts, Clinton First Term, Approval Ratings, Clinton, Polling, Data, Opinion Polls, President Clinton, Obama Approval, Obama Poll Watch, Graph, Trend, Daily Polls, Chart, Bill Clinton, Undecided, Approval Rating, Barack Obama, Job Approval, Realclearpolitics, Obama Poll Numbers, Opinion Poll, Chris Weigant, Poll of Polls, Graphs, Pollster, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The stability of Obama's numbers (especially the approval rating) continued in May, which is remarkable compared to other presidents during the same time period in their terms.

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Thomas B. Edsall

Dems Making Massive Gains As GOP Deteriorates: Pew Poll

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Democratic Majority, Pew Research Center, President Obama, Poll, Democrats, Barack Obama, Politics News

In seven short years, the American electorate has radically changed, as voters' priorities have shifted to the economy and away from such wedge issues...

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Speaking with Americans about Energy and Climate: From the Think Tank to the Kitchen Table

Drew Westen | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Renewable Energy, Polls, Environment, Cap and Trade, Green Energy, Green Energy Economy, Framing, Energy Politics, Politics News
Drew Westen

What we found is that when we talk in plain, values-oriented language, we solidly move people, motivate them to action, and beat the industry's well-crafted messages by 20-40 points.

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Obama and Abortion: Escaping the Left/Right Divide

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Notre Dame, Abortion, Obama, Planned Parenthood, Polls, Women's Rights, Abortion Rights, Gop, Abc, Obama Abortion, Democrats, Politics News
Frank Schaeffer

The hate-filled morons of the Religious Right have deservedly lost the battle for the hearts and minds of America.

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