Polls
GOP Takes Unprecedented 10-Point Lead on Generic Ballot (Gallup)
PRINCETON, NJ — Republicans lead by 51% to 41% among registered voters in Gallup weekly tracking of 2010 congressional voting preferences. The 10-percentage-point lead is the GOP’s largest so far this year and is its largest in Gallup’s history of tracking the midterm generic ballot for Congress.
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Generic Congressional Ballot: Republicans 47%, Democrats 38%
Republicans now hold a nine-point lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot for the week ending Sunday, August 22, 2010.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 47% of Likely Voters would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate, while 38% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent.
The previous week, Republicans held […]
Obama’s approval ratings hit new lows - 44% on August 16, 2010
Obama approval reaches all-time low in Gallup tracking
43% is the lowest point in Obama’s Presidency. Meanwhile, someone posted a thread about this in the liberal blog Democratic Underground. The thread was locked in less than 30 minutes. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389×8946471
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Rand Paul leads Jack Conway 40.6% to 31.4% with 27% undecided
The gap between Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul and Democrat Jack Conway widened to 9 points in the latest cn|2 Poll released Thursday, but the number of those saying they weren’t sure also jumped.
Paul leads with 40.6% compared to 31.4% for Conway. About 27% of 802 likely voters interviewed this […]
California Senate: Boxer (D) 45%, Fiorina (R) 40%
The U.S. Senate race between Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer and her Republican challenger Carly Fiorina remains close in California.
The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Boxer picking up 45% support, while Fiorina earns 40% of the vote. Five percent (5%) prefer a different candidate, and 10% are […]
Poll: Hussein at -20 (390 Days in a Row with Negative Rasmussen Index)
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U.S. SENATE RACE: Reid takes lead on Angle (Wake Up Nevadans)
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid has opened a strong lead over Republican opponent Sharron Angle after pummeling her in a ubiquitous TV and radio ad campaign that portrays the Tea Party favorite as “too extreme,” according to a new poll for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The Democratic incumbent’s aggressive strategy of attacking Angle’s staunch conservative views from […]
Obama, Palin tied 46/46 in 2012 Polling (Shocking Poll)
No, this is not coming from Rasmussen or an internal GOP poll, but from the normally Democrat-sympathetic Public Policy Polling. PPP pitted Barack Obama against five potential Republican challengers for the 2012 presidential campaign, and the only one Obama beat was … Jan Brewer. Even that, PPP admitted, resulted from […]
Majority of Americans losing faith in Obama: poll, hope GOP takes control of Congress in November
Apparently he’s not the confidence-booster-in-chief.
The majority of Americans — nearly 60 percent — lack faith in President Obama, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll published on Tuesday.
The results are the exact opposite of what voters said in a similar poll at the beginning of Obama’s presidency 18 months ago. Then, approximately 60 percent said […]