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PRINCETON, NJ -- After the release of her much-publicized autobiography and the ensuing book tour, Sarah Palin is still viewed more unfavorably than favorably by Americans, though her favorable rating has improved slightly (now 44%, up from 40% in October).

Gallup 47% to 46%

PRINCETON, NJ -- Hillary Clinton lost the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama, but in one respect she now ranks ahead of Obama. The president's current favorable rating of 56% is down 22 percentage points since January. Over the same time span, Clinton's favorable rating has changed little, and now, at 62%, it exceeds Obama's.

PRINCETON, NJ -- In August, an average of 45% of Americans identified as Democrats or leaned to the Democratic Party, while 40% identified as Republicans or leaned to the Republican Party. This 5-point advantage represents a decided narrowing of the gap between the parties from the 17-point Democratic advantage in January.

A recent (August 17) Gallup poll found that in every one of the 50 states, there are more conservatives than liberals. Gallup's astoundingly significant findings were virtually ignored by the liberal media, which has been reduced to nothing more than a giant public relations network for the leftist Democrat Party. Even Gallup itself couldn't admit the truth of its own survey results, headlining its report "Political Ideology: 'Conservative' Label Prevails in the South." The South? When did all 50 states become part of the South? South of what -- the moon? You have to read the sub-head to see that there...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Americans think the Federal Reserve is doing a worse job than even the much-maligned Internal Revenue Service. Only 30 percent of Americans think the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors is doing a good job despite the central bank's unprecedented efforts to battle a crippling recession, according to a Gallup Poll released on Monday. That makes the Fed the worst reviewed of nine key agencies -- including the tax-collecting IRS -- the Gallup poll of more than 1,000 Americans between July 10 and 12 showed. Twenty-two percent of Americans said the central bank was doing a poor...

This is the most disastrous poll numbers on Obama's Economic Stimulus ever released. Where are the Drive-Bys reporting on this?

WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama's tumbling poll numbers have dipped below those of his predecessor George W. Bush at the same point in his White House tenure, according to a national poll released Tuesday. Obama's approval rating is 55 percent six months into his presidency, a USA Today/Gallup poll found. But 56 percent of those polled approved of the job done by George W. Bush after six months, the daily reported. Obama's handling of the economy appears to be key in his fading popularity, as Americans become more pessimistic about how long it will take the economic downturn to...

'The American people are very dissatisfied with the direction of the country.' A new Gallup poll shows a marked increase in the percentage of Americans who consider the Democratic Party's views as being "too liberal." The number rose from 39 to 46 percent. Brian Darling, director of senate relations for The Heritage Foundation, interpreted the increase as an indication of the difference in people's perception before and after the presidential election. "I think many perceive that the Obama administration is packed more to the left than President Obama campaigned for as president," he said. Darling added that numbers also indicate...

Friday, June 05, 2009 Posted By:MAF Blogger DannyPermalinkNew Gallup Poll: Public Opinion Strongly Against Closing Gitmo Move America Forward has been hot on the issue of Guantanamo Bay for the past 6 months. In December we made Guantanamo the last stop on our “Honoring Heroes at the Holidays II” tour and we brought boxes of Christmas cards, DVDs, T-Shirts and lots of other goodies from our care packages to Guantanamo Bay to distribute to troops there. We inspected the detainment camps and returned to the United States to fight Obama and his allies who wanted to close it. We produced...

Gallup Poll: Majority of Americans Pro-Life on Abortion, Highest Levels in 15 Years Washington, DC -- A new Gallup poll shows that the majority of Americans self-identify as pro-life on the issue of abortion for the first time in 15 years. The Gallup survey shows the percentage of Americans saying they are pro-life at its highest point since 1995 and those saying they are "pro-choice" at its lowest. The Gallup survey, conducted May 7-10, finds 51% of Americans calling themselves pro-life and just 42 percent saying they are "pro-choice" and supporting legal abortions. Full story and graphs at: http://www.LifeNews.com/nat5053.html

PRINCETON, NJ -- Despite the Roman Catholic Church's official opposition to abortion and embryonic stem-cell research, a Gallup analysis finds almost no difference between rank-and-file American Catholics and American non-Catholics in terms of finding the two issues morally acceptable.

Your humble correspondent had figured the polls would start to narrow in the final week of the campaign but this stunning new Gallup poll shows the lead in the Presidential race narrowing much more rapidly than he had assumed. The latest Gallup poll of traditional likely voters shows the race has narrowed down to 49 percent for Barack Obama and 47 percent for John McCain. Here is Gallup's explanation of this poll: Gallup's "traditional" likely voter model, which Gallup has employed for past elections, factors in prior voting behavior as well as current voting intention. This has generally shown a...

Leads McCain by eight percentage points, 50% to 42%

PRINCETON, NJ -- National registered voters' preferences for the general election remain closely divided between Democrat Barack Obama (46%) and Republican John McCain (44%).

After a recent surge in national Republican support for Mike Huckabee for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, springing him from a distant fifth place in early November into a tie for second at the end of the month, a new USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted Dec. 14-16, finds that Huckabee's rapid rise has leveled off. The latest poll results are nearly identical to what they were in Gallup's late November/early December survey. Giuliani: 27%; vs. 25% two weeks ago and 28% two weeks before that. • Huckabee: 16%; unchanged from two weeks ago and up from 10% two weeks before that....

Gallup asked whether Americans would vote for candidates with particular characteristics. The first day of polling was the day of Mitt Romney's speech. Between now and the 2008 political conventions, there will be discussion about the qualifications of presidential candidates — their education, age, religion, race, and so on. If your party nominated a generally well-qualified person for president who happened to be [ITEM A-H READ IN ORDER], would you vote for that person? Catholic? 93 percent yes, 4 percent no. Black? 93 percent yes, 5 percent no. Jewish? 91 percent yes, 6 percent no. A woman? 86 percent yes,...

The Nov. 11-14 Gallup Poll finds 28% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents nationwide naming Giuliani as their first choice for the party’s 2008 presidential nomination. Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson is second, at 19%. Thompson appears, for the moment, to have halted some negative momentum, as his numbers had fallen slightly in each of the three prior polls. Thompson received a key endorsement from the National Right to Life Committee this week, although it is unclear whether that would have boosted his support. Arizona Sen. John McCain (13%), former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (12%), and Huckabee (10%) are closely matched...

A new Gallup poll of the national Republican race shows Rudy Giuliani's support slipping to its lowest level since before he entered the race. The survey of self-identified Republicans and Republican leaners has Giuliani leading the GOP contest with 28 percent – down from 34 percent in the Gallup survey taken two weeks ago. Fred Thompson is second with 19 percent, John McCain is third with 13 percent, Mitt Romney is fourth with 12 percent, and Mike Huckabee is fifth with ten percent. Giuliani's support reached its highest point in Gallup polls, 49 percent, in March. In the months since,...

Rasmussen Reports polling has recently shown Fred Thompson leading the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination while most other polls place Rudy Giuliani in the lead and Thompson in second. The difference is primarily the result of the fact that Rasmussen screens for Likely Primary Voters while others do not. Gallup numbers are very similar to the Rasmussen numbers. Not only does Gallup's sample of informed voters show Thompson ahead of Giuliani, they also match Rasmussen by showing Romney ahead of McCain. Why does Gallup's sample of informed voters look so much like the Rasmussen sample of Likely Voters? Because...

The latest Gallup Poll is out and it shows a small surge for Fred Thompson, while Mitt Romney falls, and Ron Paul falls along with him:WASHINGTON — Former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson has gotten a modest bump in support after finally announcing he’s running for the Republican presidential nomination, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds. And Arizona Sen. John McCain may have started to turn around his beleaguered campaign.McCain, who bottomed out in a USA TODAY poll in mid-August after financial woes and a staff shake-up, has rebounded by 4 percentage points, to 15%. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has slipped...

The MSM delights in highlighting President Bush's anemic poll numbers. Congress's approval rating in the latest Gallup poll was so shockingly, historically, low at 14% that the MSM could hardly ignore it.But there was another finding emerging from that same Gallup poll that has received very little media attention: the societal institution that enjoys, by far, the highest confidence among Americans is, at 69%, the military.Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Bill Carr discussed the Gallup findings on last night's "Right Angle," the Ithaca-based TV show that this NewsBuster hosts. While clearly pleased by the military's achievement in that regard, Sec. Carr...

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The final USA Today/Gallup pre-election polls for the U.S. Senate in six highly competitive races find the Democratic candidates in New Jersey and Montana holding significant leads, but the races are too close to call in Missouri, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia. The Senate currently consists of 55 Republicans, 44 Democrats, and 1 independent. The Democrats need a net gain of six seats to win control. Most observers agree that to do this, Democrats need to hold on to all of the seats they currently hold (something they are expected to do), while taking seats away from Republicans in six...

The USA Today/Gallup poll just out gives the Reps a perfect trifecta in the polls as, again, a huge lead is cut. Today the Dems only enjoy a meager 7 percentage point lead over the Reps. A month ago it was a 23 point lead, and two weeks ago it was 13 points. Updating this in a few minutes. A Democratic advantage of 23 percentage points a month ago and 13 points two weeks ago is now down to 7. Gallup and USA Today are spinning like whirling dervishes to claim this still indicated dems will take the house. We...

With all the recent talk about anti-Semitism, who would have thought that Jews would prove so popular? A new Gallup Poll (released September 7, 2006) asked respondents how they felt about ten different religious groups, ranging from “Fundamentalist Christians” to “Atheists.” By every measure, Jews drew the most favorable reaction, with the highest “positive” rating (58%) and the lowest “negative” rating (only 4%)...

Polls that show public confidence in college professors as well as in grade and high-school classroom teachers are not inconsistent with other survey findings that show bias on the part of pedagogues everywhere. “In addition to doctors and teachers, those rounding out the top five of generally trusted occupations and professions are scientists (77%), police officers (76%) and professors (75%),” the results of a Harris poll released on August 8th show. “Conversely, the five occupations that are least trusted to be truthful include actors (26%), lawyers (27%), stockbrokers (29%), trade union leaders (30%) and opinion pollsters (34%),” Harris interactive goes...

The Gallup poll released on Tuesday will probably be promoted by public school officials as evidence that they are doing a great job but the survey requires close examination. “In contrast to the public’s pessimistic view of [No Child Left Behind] NCLB, the poll finds strong support for the public schools,” according to Phi Delta Kappa International. PDK conducted the poll in conjunction with the Gallup organization. Clearly, the poll takers harbored an animus towards NCLB. Thus, it came as something of a surprise when PDK executive director Lowell Rose admitted, “Test scores have gone up and I credit NCLB...

Page:  1, 2   Next The fate of a New Hampshire law requiring parents of minor girls to be notified before their daughters can have an abortion now rests with the Supreme Court. Opening arguments in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England begin Wednesday.Most U.S. adults think parents should not just be notified, but should have to give their permission, before a minor daughter has an abortion. For more than a decade, Gallup has found roughly 7 in 10 Americans favoring laws that require women under 18 to receive parental consent for any abortion. The latest poll, conducted...

(CNN) -- Only one in 10 Americans said they believe Bush administration officials did nothing illegal or unethical in connection with the leaking of a CIA operative's identity, according to a national poll released Tuesday. Thirty-nine percent said some administration officials acted illegally in the matter, in which the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA operative, was revealed. The same percentage of respondents in the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll said Bush administration officials acted unethically, but did nothing illegal.

Public: Response to Katrina Better Now Than Just After Hurricane Hit Most Americans were not impressed with the initial response to Hurricane Katrina, but according to the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup survey, majorities of Americans now say that the people and officials involved in the rescue effort are doing a good job. Most Americans believe that government agencies in New Orleans should have been better prepared, and they support the proposal for an independent investigation into the problems with the government's response. But they reject the notion that race or poverty were reasons why the government was slow to respond.

The U.S. Congress, returning to Washington this week after its summer recess, has a disapproval rate of 58 percent, a Gallup Poll released Tuesday says. A Gallup Tuesday Briefing reported 36 percent of those polled approve of the way Congress is handling its job but 58 percent disapprove. Congress' approval rating hasn't been above 38 percent since February, the first time since 1997 the nation's legislative body approval rating, tracked monthly, has spent so many consecutive months less than 40 percent. The data show a strong partisan divide in opinion of the Republican-controlled Congress. A total of 57 percent of...

I hate to throw cold water -- actually I love to throw cold water -- on all this spin, but I have here the latest Gallup poll, and the headline here of the latest Gallup poll is this: "Election 2008: Republican Candidates Fare Better in Early Trial Heats." Subheadline: "Public's View of John Kerry Growing More Negative." Oh, and we just had a new star born yesterday in the Democrat Party, right? John Kerry, Jr., trying to hide his ultraliberalism behind a military uniform, and this is the "new star" of the Democratic Party. If this is the new star...

PRINCETON, NJ -- This past Saturday, March 19, marked the second anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq. Americans are now divided in their overall support for the war, in their ratings of President George W. Bush's handling of it, and in their views of how things are going in Iraq. This is a much different picture from what Gallup found at the start of the war, when the vast majority of Americans supported the United States' efforts in Iraq. Americans have become much more positive, however, in their overall view of Iraq as a country, although the...

PRINCETON, N.J. -- The arrival of Christmas and the beginning of a new year provide Gallup an opportunity to review a year's worth of data on Americans and their religion, with a special focus on Christmas. Here are 10 interesting observations: 1. Nearly 9 out of 10 Americans say it is OK for people to wish others "Merry Christmas" as a way of spreading holiday cheer. There's been a great deal of controversy this year over the secularization of Christmas. Some conservative and religious groups argue that the substitution of "Happy Holidays" and "Seasons Greetings" for the traditional "Merry Christmas"...

New Gallup Poll For Iowa Out at 7:00pm on CNN.

  ----- Original Message ----- Subject: GALLUP POLL TUESDAY BRIEFING -- October 26, 2004 Tue, 26 Oct 2004 FEATURED ANALYSIS Catholic Vote Still Up for Grabs FOCUS ON Americans' Opinions About the Situation in Iraq THE NATION'S PULSE BY DR. FRANK NEWPORT Questions and Answers With the Editor in Chief George W. Bush Approval Rating Most Recent Rating: 2004 Oct 22-24 51% Approve 46% Disapprove "State of the Country" Satisfaction Rating Most Recent: 2004 Oct 11-14 41% Satisfied 57% Dissatisfied Economic Confidence Ratings Most Recent: 2004 Oct 11-14 34% Excellent/Good 66% Only fair/Poor GALLUP POLL VAULT Winning the War in...

***....Sixteen days before Election Day, the president needs to scrape together at least 48 of the remaining 99 votes from tossup states to win re-election. Kerry needs 53 to stop him. The AP analyzed poll data, both public and private, and interviewed analysts in key states in the days since the final debate Wednesday. While public and private polls suggested Bush may be gaining ground on Kerry, the consensus was that the race was remarkably close going into the last two full weeks of campaigning. A surge by either candidate 3 or 4 percentage points in national polls could shift...

From the internals in the Gallop polls. Kerry/Bush. Demonstrated he is tough enough for the job 37%/54% " Kerry was been working assiduously for the past year to convince the US that he is a girly man in stretch pants with coffed hair, pumpkin skin, manicured nails. He succeeded. Toughness 37%.

Staffers at the Kerry campaign may want to put the cork back in their champagne bottles after they examine the internal numbers in the latest Gallup poll. Sure, most felt that the Massachusetts Democrat was the better debater by a whopping margin of 53 to 37 percent. Kerry did even better when Gallup asked which candidate expressed himself clearly, beating Bush 60 to 32 percent. But when asked which of the two was more believable, it was Bush over Kerry - 50 to 45 percent. On which candidate did better on the issues, again it was Bush over Kerry, 49...

Even before Thursday night's debate, the Democratic National Committee was in high gear encouraging the faithful on the Internet. An e-mail from DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe read, "Tonight, don't let George Bush's henchmen steal another victory. We need your online help immediately after the debate, so save this email, print it out, and have it ready with you as you watch the first Presidential debate tonight." McAuliffe continued. "We all know what happened in 2000. Al Gore won the first debate on the issues, but Republicans stole the post-debate spin. We are not going to let that happen again, and...

<p>2. Regardless of which candidate you happen to support, who do you think did the better job in the debate: John Kerry or George W. Bush?</p> <p>5. Next, regardless of which presidential candidate you support, please tell me if you think John Kerry or George W. Bush would better handle the situation in Iraq.</p>

There’s a single bright spot for John Kerry in the latest USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll numbers: Bush’s lead among likely voters slimmed from 13% to 8% (52%-44%) since the last time the poll was taken. However, the gap among registered voters widened from 8% to 13% (54%-41%) so go figure. On the internals and issues, President Bush continues to hold a wide lead, one that Kerry has done nothing to narrow over the past two weeks. For example: - President Bush holds a 10% advantage among voters who say they are “certain” to vote for their preferred candidate (47%-37%). - President...

WASHINGTON — President Bush holds a 7-point lead over John Kerry in the latest Gallup poll — the third survey since last week's Republican convention to show Bush the clear leader. Bush had 52 percent to Kerry's 45 percent among likely voters, according to the poll, which was conducted Friday through Sunday. Its error margin is plus or minus 4 percentage points. The Gallup/CNN/USA Today poll is the traditional Labor Day benchmark. The candidate who leads in that poll almost always wins the election. In the past week, Kerry has added new staffers with ties to former President Bill Clinton...

PRINCETON, NJ -- A new Gallup Poll shows a slight improvement in President George W. Bush's overall job approval rating, while the presidential contest remains essentially unchanged. In a two-way contest with Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, Bush enjoys a slight lead among likely voters, 50% to 47%, little changed from the 51% to 47% lead he enjoyed in a July 30-Aug. 1 poll.

<p>Analysts in both parties say the lack of movement underscores how polarized the electorate is. Seven months before Election Day, they say, most people's minds are made up.</p> <p>"I don't think anything barring a major calamity of some sort will have much of an impact between now and November," independent pollster John Zogby says. "The nation is split...down the middle." A new Zogby International Poll taken over the weekend showed Kerry ahead, 47% to 44%, virtually unchanged from early April.</p>

Growing gaps found from county to county in presidential race By Bill Bishop AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Sunday, April 4, 2004 The assumption since the 2000 election has been that the United States is evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. Nationally, this is still true. At the local level, however, that 50-50 split disappears. In its place is a country so out of balance, so politically divided, that there is little competition in presidential contests between the parties in most U.S. counties, according to an Austin American-Statesman study of election returns since 1948. American democracy is based on the continuous exchange of...

PRINCETON, NJ -- A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds Americans' support for the war in Iraq has retreated from the higher levels coincident with the capture of Saddam Hussein last December, and is essentially back where it was last fall. Today, Americans are evenly divided on whether it was worth going to war at all, and more people disapprove than approve of the way President George W. Bush is handling the situation in Iraq. A month ago, solid majorities said the war was worth it, and approved of Bush's handling of that issue.The poll, conducted Jan. 29-Feb. 1, finds...

Every great enterprise has a natural competitor. Hertz has Avis. Coke has Pepsi. GM has Ford. And the Gallup Poll has ... well, we’re not sure. But last week, a potential competitor staked its claim to being the rightful alternative to Gallup. Once, the Harris Poll constituted the requisite competition for Gallup in the field of public polling. But Lou Harris’s organization has gone headlong into Internet-based polling and lost its competitive edge. The major news-organization polls, such as those by The New York Times, offer an alternative perspective, but other media don’t like to give them widespread coverage, limiting...

T H E   G A L L U P   O R G A N I Z A T I O N SOURCE: http://www.gallup.com CONTACT INFORMATION: Customer Service301 South 68th Street PlaceLincoln, NE 68510 1-888-274-5447       POLL ANALYSES May 30, 2003 Public Remains Skeptical of News Media Majority of Americans believe news organizations often get facts wrong by Mark Gillespie GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Jayson Blair's reporting will be discussed for years to come in the nation's journalism schools -- as an example of how not to be a reporter. Blair resigned under pressure...