Polls

Bogus Poll: Pennsylvania Senate: Democrat Joe Sestak 46% Republican Pat Toomey 45% (Partisan PPP strikes again…)

Sestak supposedly has closed the gap with Independents but I’ll believe it when I see it on November 2nd
publicpolicypolling:
You can put Pennsylvania Senate back in the toss up category. Joe Sestak leads Pat Toomey 46-45 in our newest poll of the race, erasing the 9 point deficit he had in an August […]


Kentucky Senate: Conway (D) Narrows The Gap On Paul (R)

Are Democrat Jack Conway’s questions about Republican Rand Paul’s religious views in college beginning to pay off? Paul is now ahead by only five points, his smallest lead to date in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Kentucky shows Paul with 47% of the […]


New Poll shows Republican Raese Edging Democrat Manchin by 3

After a bad couple of weeks, Republicans worried that Joe Manchin might have overtaken John Raese in the race to replace the late Robert Byrd in the US Senate. A new Fox News poll shows that Manchin made up ground on Raese, but the Republican still holds a narrow lead over the […]


Rasmussen Predicts GOP Gain of 55 in House (Polls)

Newport Beach, Calif.—Nationally-recognized pollster Scott Rasmussen last night predicted that Republicans would gain 55 seats in races for the U.S. House of Representatives November 2—much more than the 39 needed for a Republican majority in the House for the first time since 2006.
But the man whose Rasmussen Reports polling is […]


Connecticut Senate: Blumenthal (D) Holds Smaller Lead Over McMahon (R)

Democrat Richard Blumenthal now leads Republican Linda McMahon by just five points in Connecticut’s race for the U.S. Senate in a survey conducted two nights after their third and final head-to-head debate.
The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Blumenthal, Connecticut’s longtime attorney general, picking up 51% […]


Poll: Obama leads Palin by 16 in 2012 test

Obama leads Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate, by a 16-point margin, the Bloomberg News National Poll found.
Fifty-one percent of likely voters said they would vote to reelect Obama in a hypothetical match-up against Palin, who drew the support of 35 percent of likely voters.
Ten percent said they likely would not […]


Women see Barack Obama administration as a ‘Failure’ (Poll)

The White House may view the last 18 months as historic, racking up a legislative scorecard that includes a $787 billion stimulus package and an overhaul of the health care system.
A majority of women, however, see it as a failure, according to a new poll conducted by Kellyanne Conway for The […]


U.S. House Projections Updated: GOP Hits +50 – 10/9/10

Republicans are poised for a 50-seat net gain in the House of Representatives, and that number could still go higher, according to our latest update of U.S. House Projections for the November 2 Midterm Elections.
We are now tracking 128 races, 104 of which are seats currently held by Democrats. We now […]


Voters Are Much Less Optimistic About Black-White Relations

Perceptions about the state of black-white relations in America have fallen dramatically since the summer of 2009. But voters are still more optimistic about that relationship than they are about relations between whites and Hispanics and between blacks and Hispanics.A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 36% of […]


SurveyUSA Polls: Dems (slightly) Ahead In CA-SEN and CA-GOV Races

SurveyUSA is out with new numbers on the California Senate and gubernatorial races and both Democratic nominees are maintaining their recent polling leads. In the Senate race, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer is leading Republican former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina 46%-43%, while Democratic state Attorney General Jerry Brown is up on […]


CNN/Time Poll: Murkowski deadlocked with Miller in Alaska

The wild three-way Senate race in Alaska now appears to be a two-person fight for the top spot, according to a new poll.
A CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday indicates that 38 percent of likely voters in the state support GOP nominee Joe Miller, with 36 percent saying they back Republican Sen. […]


GOP Leads Democrats By 5-To-1 On Facebook

When it comes to the technology cool factor Republicans are the new hipsters.
Republicans have amassed nearly five times as many Facebook friends as their Democratic counterparts, says a report by HeadCount, a voter registration organization. The trend is similar on Twitter.
Republicans candidates for Senate had more than 1.43 million fans on Facebook, […]


Shock poll: DioGuardi within 1% of Gillebrand in New York Senate race

New York voters will, unusually, elect 2 United States Senators in 2010. In the Special Election to fill the final 2 years of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s term, incumbent Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand and former Congressman Republican Joe DioGuardi today finish effectively even, Gillibrand’s nominal 1-point lead being within the survey’s theoretical […]


Fox News Poll: Coons Leads O’Donnell By 15 Points In Delaware

The new Fox News poll of the Delaware Senate race shows Democratic nominee Chris Coons continuing to enjoy a double-digit lead against Republican Christine O’Donnell.
The numbers: Coons 54%, O’Donnell 39%. The survey of likely voters has a ±3% margin of error. There is no previous Fox News poll of this race. […]


Fox News Senate Polls:DE R -15, OH R +13, PA R +8, CA R -1, NV R +1

DE - Coons (D) 54%, O’Donnell (R) 39% Link
OH - Portman (R) 49%, Fisher (D) 36% Link
PA - Toomey (R) 48%, Sestak (D) 40% Link
CA - Boxer (D) 47%, Fiorina (R) 46% Link
NV - Angle (R) 46%, Reid (D) 45% Link
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New PPP poll…West Virginia Senate: Raese 46, Manchin 43.

West Virginia Senate Raese 46, Manchin 43. Details will be up soon.


CNN Poll: Only 25% of Americans Trust The Government

Washington (CNN) – A new poll indicates that only one in four Americans say they trust the government to do what is right always or most of the time, one explanation for the anti-incumbent sentiment in the country today.
According to CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national survey released Tuesday, 25 percent of the […]


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