Raise your hand if you’ve read about that craaaaazy new Iowa poll showing John Edwards with 36% of the vote among likely primary voters, Hilary Clinton with 16%, Barack Obama with 13% and retiring Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack with only 9%.
What the hell? The conventional wisdom was that Vilsack was going to sweep his home […]
This is hilarious. Stolen from an emailer over at TPM:
Just to put things in perspective… with public approval solidly in the 20s, the war in Iraq is now less popular than a bevy of social issues that have long been considered political poison for Democrats. Imagine if a Democratic president and Congress had made any […]
I’m back from my presentation about human rights abuses in the “War on Terror.” It went very, very well in case anyone was wondering. Maybe I’ll make an audio version at some point, but you can check out the special mini-site I created for it here: thedailybackground.com/humanrights.
Meanwhile, a new CBS/CBS poll has been released with […]
In a new Zogby telephone poll (Zogby does both internet and telephone- like Harris Interactive) conducted December 5th-8th, President Bush is given his lowest approval rating ever recorded by the firm: 30%. Note that Zogby is a Democratic pollster and although his firm is nonpartisan and never does commissioned work for candidate’s campaigns, he is […]
According to a brand new AP/Ipsos poll, support of the President on Iraq is at an all-time low. This also means of course that opposition to the President on the issue of Iraq is at an all-time high. The poll was conducted just before the Iraq Study Group was released (interviews conducted Monday-Wednesday, ISG report […]
According to a new Harris Interactive poll (note that some Harris polls-including this one- are conducted online, although there was an unusually large sample size of 2400 individuals and Harris estimates their MoE at 2%), 61% of Americans think that it’s a “good thing” that Donald Rumsfeld is no longer going to be the Secretary […]
More from the new CNN/OPR poll. Respondents were asked “Who do you have more confidence in when it comes to handling the following issues: President Bush or the Democrats in Congress?” The President leads on exactly one issue, but only by a single point, which is considered a statistical tie. Of particular note: numbers on […]
From the new CNN/OPR poll (conducted Nov 17-19), on Iraq:
“Which comes closest to your view about what the U.S. should now do about the number of U.S. troops in Iraq? The U.S. should send more troops to Iraq. The U.S. should keep the number of troops as it is now. The U.S. should withdraw some […]
Pew released its first extensive post-election polling report today, titled “Public Cheers Democratic Victory.” The poll results are mostly favorable towards Democrats (with a title like that, you’d expect they would), but one bit caught my eye. It seems there has been a remarkable change in opinion over the last two months regarding the decision […]
Newsweek has done their first post-election poll, and found that the President’s approval is the lowest at which they’ve ever registered for him 31%.
President Bush’s job approval rating has fallen to just 31 percent, according to the new NEWSWEEK Poll. Bill Clinton’s lowest rating during his presidency was 36 percent; Bush’s father’s was 29 percent, […]
I wanted to talk real quickly about three Senate races that recent polls show as tied. Only one of them is truly tied, so I wanted to dispel any last-minute worrying in case you happened to see them. All three happen to be states starting with the letter M:
Montana (chart here) In Montana a new […]
A few assorted polls I wanted to highly briefly.
_In New Jersey, the only state where a Demoratic Senator is really in trouble, incumbent Bob Menendez is leading by 6 points (48%-42%) over Republican challenger Tom Kean Jr in the latest poll, conducted by Research 2000.
According to the new Newsweek/Princeton Survey Reserach Associated International poll (what […]
CNN notes the increase in government spending under the Bush Administration.
The poll released Friday also showed that an overwhelming majority of Americans perceive, correctly, that the size and cost of government have gone up in the past four years, when Republicans have had a grip on the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White […]
One of the favorite election-year targets of hate that Republicans have are “activist judges.” Now who exactly these “activist judges” are, I don’t exactly know. The judges who decided that black men could marry white women in the first place were probably “activist judges.” The judges who decided that women should have the right to […]
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