President Barack Obama earned a 50% job approval rating for the week ending March 6, his highest weekly average since May 2013. … His current higher overall rating continues to reflect an extreme degree of party polarization, with 87% of Democrats approving of the job Obama is doing as president […] Read more »
Majority Disapproves of GOP Move to Block Court Nominee
A majority of Americans disapprove of Senate Republicans’ refusal to consider President Barack Obama’s pick to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows. CONT. Carrie Dann, NBC News Read more »
Clinton Voters Like Obama More Than Sanders Supporters Do
A month ago, the talk about Hillary Clinton’s campaign was of deja vu, with Bernie Sanders adopting Barack Obama’s 2008 model to challenge her from the left. … But where some observers have stressed the continuities with the 2008 nomination fight, others see the opposite: a role reversal. In this […] Read more »
For the next Justice, Americans want a nominee and a hearing
Most Americans want to see President Barack Obama nominate someone to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, but the public is divided on what ideological tilt they’d prefer to see in a nominee, according to a new CNN/ORC poll published Thursday. […] Read more »
South Carolina Democratic Primary Exit Poll Analysis
Today’s primary is the first to test the Democratic candidates’ popularity among a large number of black voters: Preliminary exit poll results indicate that blacks account for six in 10 South Carolina Democratic primary voters today, possibly on pace to break the state’s record, 55 percent in 2008 – more […] Read more »
Americans’ Perceptions of Obama’s World Standing Improve
Forty-five percent of Americans believe world leaders respect President Barack Obama, up from 37% a year ago. Still, the percentage who say international leaders respect Obama falls short of the 51% to 67% who held this view from 2009 to 2013. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »