Polls News

Obama At 52% In Rasmussen Poll

12:43 pm EST January 24th, 2011 | Politics | 61 Comments

Scott Rasmussen

Overall, 52% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president’s performance. That’s his highest level of total approval in fifteen months, since October 2009.

Rasmussen, of course, buries this in his report. But the number is the number. Considering the way Rasmussen juices their numbers, the real approval may be quite a bit higher.

Topic: Polls, President Obama, Rasmussen

America Plays The Blame Game, Bush Hurt Most

11:27 am EST February 12th, 2010 | News | 47 Comments

The American people stubbornly refuse to believe right-wing dogma that says Bush can’t be blamed for what he allowed to transpire while he was president.

In a New York Times/CBS News survey out Friday, 31 percent of Americans said the Bush administration is at fault for the current state of the economy while only 7 percent pointed their finger at President Obama and his team.

An additional 23 percent said the fault lies with Wall Street institutions while 13 percent assign the blame to Congress. Nearly 10 percent said the blame lies with all of them.

Topic: Economy, George W. Bush, Polls, Unemployment

Fox Not Actually Interested In Accuracy

3:59 am EST December 9th, 2009 | Media | 7 Comments

Media Matters (where I work) caught Fox blatantly rigging polling numbers in a graphic (they used fuzzy math to have poll results add up to 120%). What did Fox News do in response (previously they said people involved in these sorts of errors would be fired)? They just pretended like the error didn’t happen. Because folks, at the end of the day Fox News Channel is the 21st century version of Pravda. And if it helps the party, it becomes reality on Fox.

Topic: Fox News, Media Matters, Polls, Propaganda

America Changing On Taxes

7:22 pm EST April 13th, 2009 | News | 4 Comments

Here’s more evidence that the GOP tax message may have run its course.

A new Gallup Poll finds 48% of Americans saying the amount of federal income taxes they pay is “about right,” with 46% saying “too high” — one of the most positive assessments Gallup has measured since 1956. Typically, a majority of Americans say their taxes are too high, and relatively few say their taxes are too low.

President Obama’s election showed that the blaring anti-tax message of the right doesn’t work, and for the long term it may be headed for massive failure. It isn’t that people support high taxes, but rather common sense tax policy where we don’t think cutting taxes for Paris Hilton will lead to magical prosperity ponies for the rest of us.

The problem for the GOP is that if the tax message doesn’t work – that is, if people no longer see Democrats as the tax monster – all the GOP is god, guns, and gays and that’s an increasingly fringe group of people who think those are the most important issue of our time.

Topic: Economy, Polls, Taxes

Zogby Poll Rears Its Head Again, Right Wingers Swoon

1:55 am EST March 24th, 2009 | News | 12 Comments

As we saw during the 2008 election, John Zogby’s polls are ridiculous. They’re ridiculous when they’ve shown Democrats in the lead, and ridiculous when they’ve shown Republicans in the lead. A Zogby poll is like Jim Cramer telling you to buy Bear Stearns but even less accurate. So its no wonder conservative blogs like Powerline (are they still looking for the Democrat who wrote the Schiavo memo?) and conservative newspapers like the Boston Herald are flogging a Zogby poll that’s supposedly going to show Obama at 50%. It isn’t that I don’t think the President’s numbers will fluctuate over time (though I’d go out on a limb and say he’s never going to hit the sub-25% that was the last 3 years of his predecessor), but Zogby just isn’t credible.

Right now the credible pollsters have President Obama’s approval rating at about 59%.

UPDATE: True to form, Instapundit pimps the b.s. as well.

>> The Worst Pollster in the World Strikes Again

>> John explains why the right is getting hot and bothered about Zogby:

Rasmussen and Zogby will keep telling you what you pay them to tell you, but it doesn’t reflect what is actually going on in the real world.

Topic: Polls

Obama Vs. Reagan

3:45 pm EST March 5th, 2009 | News | 5 Comments

In a Fox News poll — repeat Fox News – people say we need Obanomics over Reaganomics by 49%-40%.

UPDATE: No matter how hard Fox News tries they can’t get anti-Obama results from their polls. Its like the president is popular and has the respects of the citizens. Fox seems to be fighting with Scott Rasmussen to be the Limbaugh of Republican pollsters.

Topic: Polls, President Obama, Ronald Reagan

Voters In Fox Poll Echo Other Findings That Obama Is Winning “Bipartisan” War

4:39 pm EST February 19th, 2009 | Republicans | 41 Comments

It’s like the beltway and the MSM don’t know diddly poo.

Voters say by 66 percent to 28 percent that Obama had tried to reach out to Republicans and be bipartisan about the package, and they say 60 percent to 33 percent that the Republicans have not sincerely tried to act in a bipartisan way. Overall, voters approve of the job congressional Democrats are doing by 46 percent to 45 percent and disapprove of the GOP’s performance by 56 percent to 34 percent. Obama’s approval to disapproval ratio is 60 percent to 26 percent, down from 65 percent to 16 percent in late January.

Topic: Polls, President Obama

Popular President Vs. Out Of Touch Republicans

6:18 pm EST February 18th, 2009 | Republicans | 19 Comments

obama New poll from AP:

Job as President

67% approve
24% disaprove

Obama’s handling of the Economy

68% approve
27% disapprove

Do you approve or disapprove the Stimulus package

52% approve
41% oppose

Do you approve or disapprove of the way Dems in Congress are handling the economy?

49% approve
41% disapprove

Do you approve or disapprove of the way Republicans in Congress are handling the economy?

33% approve
59% disapprove

How much is Barack Obama doing to cooperate with the Republicans in Congress? Is he doing

Too much 6%
Not enough 30 %
About the right amount 62%

How much do you think the Republicans in Congress are doing to cooperate with Barack Obama? Are they doing

Too much 5%
Not enough 64%
About the right amount 27%

But remember, Fox News and The Washington Post and John McCain are vewy vewy concerned about “bipartisanship” that involves President Obama giving in to the increasingly shrinking Republicans, so its all doom.

Topic: Polls, President Obama

The People & The President Vs. The GOP

2:55 pm EST February 9th, 2009 | News | Comments Off

Unpossible! The Rush Limbaugh led Republicans say that President Obama is losing the American people… but the facts disagree.

The American public gives President Barack Obama a strong 67% approval rating for the way in which he is handling the government’s efforts to pass an economic stimulus bill, while the Democrats and, in particular, the Republicans in Congress receive much lower approval ratings of 48% and 31%, respectively.

For eight years the GOP effectively used the bully pulpit of the presidency – unequal to any other stage in American politics – and tonight they’re going to get a taste of their own medicine.

Topic: Economy, Gallup, Polls, President Obama, Republicans

Tightening!

12:38 pm EST October 30th, 2008 | News | 13 Comments

In Gallup’s old likely voter model – the most McCain friendly projection – Obama has moved his lead back up to 5%.

One thing I’ve noticed is that in many swing states – Colorado, Virginia, and in some polls Nevada – Obama is over 50%. Back in 2004, that was not the case with Sen. Kerry. So, in a lot of these cases even in the impossible likelihood that all undecideds went McCain the state would still go Obama. But the likelihood of all undecideds going McCain ain’t so good. It’s a good buffer to have.

Topic: Polls, President Obama