This weekend on CNN’s State of the Union with John King, Christina Romer, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said she expects the economy to get better by the spring and that she thought this was a “realistic estimate.” I sure hope she’s right about that, but unfortunately with the unemployment rate […]
This post was written by Neil Newhouse and Jeremy Ruch President Obama’s job approval in the January 2-4 Gallup Daily tracking was the second lowest in the modern era for Presidents starting their second year in office. Obama opened the new year with a 50{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222}-44{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} job approval rating which was marginally higher than President Reagan’s […]
By Nicole McCleskey The December NBC/Wall Street Journal survey confirmed a year-long trend of voters moving away from President Obama and The Democratic Party, setting the stage for what promises to be an exciting election year out West. Retirements this week prompted me to once again look at the data out West. While the trends […]
The current debate among pundits regarding the GOP’s chances to take control of the House and make sizable gains in the Senate is both important and completely not important. It is important because the perceived chances of a GOP takeover in the House and a much better ability in the Senate to check the Dems […]
The New Year has brought with it a flurry of announcements from Democrats who say they’d rather retire than fight on in 2010. Hardly a surprise when you consider the public sentiment we’re measuring in the NBC/WSJ poll. Over the course of 2009 the image of the Democratic Party slipped steadily from an 18-point net […]
This post was written by Glen Bolger and Jim Hobart This is the first in a series of posts examining key polling data and other numbers to watch as we move towards Election Day. Over the course of the past year, much attention was given to the decline in President Obama’s approval rating from its […]
The recently completed “Wealth in America” survey done for CNBC by Dem pollster Peter Hart, and GOP pollster (and my biz partner) Bill McInturff, had an interesting question on the unused TARP money. The survey was conducted December 1-3, 2009 among 808 adults. The question: There is some two hundred billion dollars left over from […]
Could Libertarian cult-icon Neil Peart – drummer and song-writer for the Canadian band Rush – be the Idea Man of the GOP? If it’s true, he would be on the cutting edge of an already large and growing constituency: voters who don’t trust government. And, it’s not just when it comes to health care. The […]
This post was written by Glen Bolger and Jim Hobart. While much attention is (rightfully) being paid to President Obama’s approval rating dipping below 50% in numerous tracking polls, his approval numbers on issues have also continued their downward descent that began months ago. According to a recent Bloomberg survey, the top four issues among […]
President Obama announced on Tuesday that the government is going to spend more money to create new jobs. No doubt, with unemployment still over the double-digit threshold we certainly need new jobs – but is more spending by the government really the answer? Not according to the public in a slew of recently released public polls: Six-in-ten […]
