“It all comes down to turnout.” That’s one of the biggest clichés in politics. It’s also true in one-point races. Welcome to Iowa, Kansas and North Carolina. According to the latest round of Fox News Senate battleground polls, none of the front-runners in those states hits the 50 percent mark. […] Read more »
High anxiety, low expectations as election nears
As Election Day nears, America is the Land of the Fearful. Voters are rattled by the Ebola virus, braced for years of conflict against the terrorist group Islamic State and still worried about jobs, a nationwide USA TODAY Poll finds. Two-thirds say the nation faces more challenging problems than usual; […] Read more »
Democratic Pollster: Midterm Voters Want to Punish Obama, Not Reward Republicans
Republicans eyeing a Senate majority in Tuesday’s election are burdened by an unappealing party brand on policy issues that didn’t exist in the last midterm election, according to a leading Democratic pollster. “There was no content to the Republican brand” in 2010 and there is now “a much more robust […] Read more »
Economic, Political Discontent Make for a Midterm Double Punch
A double punch of economic and political dissatisfaction marks public attitudes in the closing week of the 2014 midterm campaign – a dynamic that reflects poorly on the president’s performance, bolstering his Republican opponents. The discontent in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll is palpable. Despite its fitful gains, seven […] Read more »
Voters Head to the Polls Frustrated and Angry at Congress, President
With only a week to go until the 2014 midterms, the public’s mood can be summed up in three words—frustration, anger, and anxiety. More than five years after the official end of the Great Recession, most people are frustrated by the stagnation of wages and household incomes. They are angry […] Read more »
Voters are angry
Nearly 7 in 10 Americans are angry at the direction the country is headed and 53% of Americans disapprove of President Barack Obama’s job performance, two troubling signs for Democrats one week before the midterm elections, a new CNN/ORC International Poll shows. CONT. Mark Preston, CNN Read more »