Americans are a wary bunch these days – and not without reason. Recent revelations about domestic spying would seem to vindicate “X-Files-like” paranoia. Recent polls have documented just how shaken our confidence in many major institutions of American society has been. The latest NBC-Wall Street Journal poll co-conducted by POS partner Bill McInturff demonstrates that […]
read morePresident Obama ran on a promise to “restore America’s standing in the world,” and after just a few months in office, it sure looked like he was on course to deliver. During Obama’s first year in office, worldwide approval of U.S. leadership rose from 34{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} (34{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} disapprove) to 49{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} (21{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} disapprove). Even the President himself […]
read moreIt has been over two years since the bloody fighting in Syria began between President Bashar al-Assad’s government forces and anti-government rebels. Despite the limited attention from the U.S. public where only 15{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} of Americans admit to following the news about the civil war in Syria “very closely” (Gallup, May, 2013), the civil war has […]
read moreFull Release interview schedule from the 2013 May-June NBC News/The Wall Street Journal Poll. NBC News / Wall Street Journal — May 30 – June 2, 2013 (PDF Format)
read moreAny discussion of immigration reform invariably brings to mind the question of how to deal with those people already living in America illegally. This question of deportation versus providing a way for those here illegally to remain in the country has become highly charged politically, especially among the traditional partisan bases of the two major […]
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