Gallup’s unique daily interviewing, involving more than 350,000 completed interviews a year, along with Gallup’s 2013 50-state poll consisting of approximately 600 interviews in each state, provides the unique ability to measure the views of the residents of each state in the union on a wide variety of important measures. […] Read more »
Lost in America
… There’s a feeling of helplessness that makes the political horizon, including the coming midterm elections, especially unpredictable. Conventional wisdom has seldom been so useless, because pessimism in this country isn’t usually this durable or profound. Americans are apprehensive about where they are and even more so about where they’re […] Read more »
‘Disconnected Obama’ needs to change conversation to help party in midterms
… The question for Obama and the Democratic candidates and consultants whose fate at the ballot box in November is inextricably linked to his is what, if anything, can be done to turn around this story line of a president increasingly unable — or unwilling — to steer the country […] Read more »
Ferguson Reveals Blacks’ Unfinished Journey
The tragic shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, has sparked an intense debate about the state of race relations in America, but there’s little indication much will change. Predictably, Barack Obama, the first black president, is at the center of the debate. CONT. […] Read more »
Why so many Americans hate politics
In a time of political polarization, one thing still unites left, right and center: the disdain people have for Washington, their elected leaders and the political system. Everywhere people look, there are reasons to feel shut out, manipulated or deprived of the whole truth. Big money permeates political campaigns. Political […] Read more »
Barack Obama vs. George W. Bush — in charts!
… In the states where Quinnipiac polls — mostly states in the bluer Northeast — Obama is underwater on approval in each. We were curious about this, and reached out to Quinnipiac to see if it would be generous enough to share a full set of the data with us. […] Read more »