Gallup is out with a new poll that shows U.S. satisfaction is really low right now. Given the economic state and how broken Congress is, that should come as no shock. Some on the right are pushing this as the “Obama is Carter” meme: The second term of Jimmy Carter is going about as well […]
Some very troubling polling has come out for the Republicans in their attempts to retake the White House. This from PolitcsUSA: The biggest surprise is in the new NBC/Marist poll of South Carolina, where Obama’s approval rating is a not too upside down for a reliable red state 44%/48%. The big shock is that President […]
The extent to which some Republicans will twist history to try and sell Newt is truly amazing.This morning on Chuck Todd’s show, former Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va) was busy explaining how voters will forgive Newt for his past. As an example he brought up Bill Clinton: Look at where Bill Clinton is today compared to […]
Reading more into the CBS/New York Times poll I posted earlier, it looks like the GOP has some rough road ahead when they try to retake the White House, even with President Obama’s low approval rating. As with most other polls, this one also finds Herman Cain as the front runner: Herman Cain 25% Mitt […]
John Kasich, who has been busy cutting social services, while increasing his governor staff salaries by a $250,000 per year, also loves using the state’s private planes: It took Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) less than three months to use state-owned private planes more than former Gov. Ted Strickland (D) used them in 13 months, […]
A new CNN poll shows the favorability rating of the Tea Party in decline: The approval rating for the 2-year-old movement fell to 32 percent in a CNN/Opinion Research corporation poll released Wednesday, the lowest it’s been since CNN first polled on the tea party in January 2010 That’s compared to a 46% approval for […]
This morning, Dave Weigel tweeted “Unpopular/overreaching GOP governors in OH, WI, FL — good or bad for GOP’s prez ticket?”. That really got me thinking about the upcoming general elections. The first actual poll of Ohio Governor John Kasich was released this morning. In it they find his approval rating at a dismal 40%, with […]
So I was reading this over at Power Line: Whenever President Bush talked about immigration, his approval ratings went down. It was like clockwork: liberals never understood that the fatal decline in Bush’s popularity during his second term had at least as much to do with his advocacy of “comprehensive immigration reform” as with war-weariness. […]
There’s been a lot of talk about the low approval ratings for Democratic leaders in Congress the new CBS poll shows, and yes they are pretty dismal. What is amazing though is that they didn’t take the time to get the approval ratings of John Boehner or Mitch McConnell. Every poll I have ever seen […]
If this keeps up then we might finally get rid of Lieberman in 2012: More than 80 percent (81 percent) of Democrats now say they disapprove of the job Lieberman is doing with only 14 percent approving. Among Republicans, 48 percent disapprove of the senator with just 39 approving. And among independents, 61 percent disapprove […]