… What could be heartening for Democrats, who haven’t won a statewide race since the early days of the Clinton administration, is that the state is trending urban — and those places are starting to turn blue. The bad news is that they’re still getting clobbered in rural and exurban […] Read more »
Obama’s Perceived Honesty, Crisis Management Key to Approval
Although Americans rate President Barack Obama highest on being likable (76%) among a set of personal characteristics, those views are not strongly related to their overall approval of the job he is doing as president. Instead, two other characteristics he scores well on — displaying good judgment in a crisis […] Read more »
Why Americans Are Divided Between Two Political Parties
After President Obama’s rather comfortable victory over Mitt Romney last November, some Democrats thought the president could defy the laws of political gravity. They are now disappointed. So are Republicans who thought that controversies over Benghazi, the Internal Revenue Service, and domestic surveillance would bring Obama’s approval ratings crashing down […] Read more »
Clinton, Obama Slip in Popularity; Uncertainty About Rubio Stays High
Hillary Clinton has lost some ground in personal favorability this year, but continues to outpace both Barack Obama and, by a wide margin, Marco Rubio – like Clinton, a possible successor to Obama – in this basic measure of public popularity. [cont.] Greg Holyk, ABC News Read more »
Fox News Poll: Obama ratings suffer as scandals continue
President Barack Obama’s job rating remains upside-down — no big change there. Yet for the first time in a Fox News poll, more than half of voters find Obama unlikeable. In addition, only about a third of voters say they trust the federal government, and most want Congress to continue […] Read more »
Could recent political polls be painting a picture of what’s to come for Obama?
The mainstream media panic over the CNN/ORC poll showing President Obama’s net approval dropping 17pt to -9pt is over. Pew Research came out with a survey giving Obama a 6pt net favorable rating among adults – only down 2pt since its prior survey. The truth is that the drop is […] Read more »