… We have just completed an experimental test of four different ways to label the healthcare law. The results show that labels do make at least a marginal difference in the degree to which respondents approve or disapprove of the law. Gallup read the same basic question to four randomly […] Read more »
Obama’s reversal of fortune
When it comes to his healthcare law, President Obama faces a political version of what insurance folks call “adverse selection”: All the bad news is sticking to him and most of the good news is sticking to someone else. CONT. Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times Read more »
Six things Americans think they know about Obamacare
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll released this week tapped into Americans’ reactions to the new health-care law’s troubled rollout over the past month, including Web site problems, plan cancellations and the future of the individual mandate. Here are six of the top findings from the national survey of 1,006 […] Read more »
Obamacare support, Obama approval sink to new lows
President Obama’s job approval rating has plunged to the lowest of his presidency, according to a new CBS News poll released Wednesday, and Americans’ approval of the Affordable Care Act has dropped it’s lowest since CBS News started polling on the law. CONT. CBS News Read more »
Record Low Poll Numbers Spell Uncertain Future For Both Parties
Americans are utterly fed up with Washington. That’s the takeaway from the latest round of public opinion polls. Approval ratings for just about every leader and political institution from the president to Congress are now at record lows. NPR’s national political correspondent Mara Liasson reports on why and what the […] Read more »
President Obama’s lost generation
As a pollster who is planning surveys for 2014 candidates, I am compelled to try and develop some sense of the likely electorate — a model of probable turnout. Who will vote in the midterm elections? It’s tough to say these days. … Seasoned citizens, our oldest voters, are in […] Read more »