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We’ve all heard about the latest Gallup poll showing Newt Gingrich slightly ahead of Willard Romney and both of them ahead of Herman Cain. People like Tokyo Rove and the Republican establishment (which now includes all of the media since Fox has jumped in Romney’s tank as well) do not want you anywhere near the latest Harris poll – it doesn’t fit their narrative which says Herman Cain’s campaign was mortally wounded by the false charges alleged by Gloria Axle-Red. The Harris survey says otherwise. It says, to paraphrase Mark Twain, “The reports of the demise of Herman Cain’s campaign...

A new poll from California shows Dianne Feinstein falling below 50% in re-elect support, a rating than in any other state might mean something. McClatchy sends up the red flag from the latest Harris Poll, which gives the four-term Senator only a +4 on support for a fifth term, hitting below 50%: Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein remains more popular among California voters than her colleague Barbara Boxer, a new Field Poll shows.But Feinstein can’t rest easy as she prepares for another re-election bid next year. For the first time since her initial 1992 election, less than half of the Californians...

New York, N.Y. — November 16, 2009 — As President Obama continues his trip through Asia this week, he is trying to sell both himself and his policies on the other side of the world. When he makes it back to the United States, he may have to do the same type of sell here as his approval ratings continue their downward spiral with Americans believing that the country as a whole is moving in the wrong direction. The President, and Congress for that matter, need to do something positive in the eyes of the American public to stand a...

On October 16, the results of a Harris Interactive poll on Barack Obama were quietly posted. Because it was bad news for him, it was released on a Friday afternoon so it could be buried on Saturday and you would miss it. The report started with some blunt language, “President Obama may have won the Nobel Peace Prize, but unfortunately, he is not winning accolades from the American public as his job approval rating continues its downward slide.” Numbers tell the story Americans have run out of good will toward Obama. We don’t like what we see in him. In...

Washington, DC -- A new national Harris poll finds a strong shift towards the pro-life position on abortion and reveals the shift is seen among members of both political parties. The poll also finds a majority of African-Americans and Hispanics oppose the Roe v. Wade decision that allowed virtually unlimited abortions. http://www.LifeNews.com/nat5347.html

Twenty-first Century America … where a man who associated with a known-terrorist, was mentored by a racist anti-American reverend, lied to the American people on numerous occasions about “earmarks” in the largest wasteful spending bill in all of human history, has done nothing but fear-monger Americans with falsehoods on the state of the economy, has suspended ongoing trials of known terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and has been President for a little less than five lousy weeks is polled as being more of a hero than Jesus, Ghandi, Ronald Reagan, Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln - that according to a...

The final Harris Poll from Nov 2, 2004...Another piece of evidence pointing to a likely Kerry victory is that online Harris Polls in these large, key states, which may well determine the Electoral College result, all show modest Kerry leads. However, all these leads are within the possible sampling error for these surveys. Assuming the forecast is correct, Kerry is likely to win all three large states, and almost certainly the White House along with it. The sample sizes were well over 1,000 likely voters in Florida (1,433), Pennsylvania (1,204), and Ohio (1,218).

After officially declaring his candidacy, U.S. Senator Fred Thompson moves ahead of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in the race for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. One-third (32%) of those who say they will vote in a Republican primary or caucus will vote for Thompson while 28 percent will vote for Giuliani. Much further back is John McCain, who continues his downward slide with 11 percent saying they would vote for the Arizona Senator, and 9 percent who say they would vote for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. On the Democratic side, Senator Hillary Clinton continues to build...

Most U.S. adults favor a program allowing illegal immigrants to stay in this country if the immigrants have a job and pay their back taxes, but would not allow them to stay if they do not pay their back taxes, according to a new Harris Poll released Tuesday. Over half (57 percent) of adults said they favored creating a program that would allow illegal immigrants already living in the United States for a number of years to stay in the country and apply for U.S. citizenship – if they pay their back taxes. There is also a divide among Hispanics,...

Giuliani Gains as McCain Slips in the Race for the Republican Presidential Nomination Friday March 16, 11:47 am ET Almost one-quarter of Republicans say that they would consider voting for Former Speaker Newt Gingrich ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has widened his lead over United States Senator John McCain, and is now the clear front runner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination for the 2008 election. In February, The Harris Poll® showed that support for Giuliani and McCain was fairly close, but this is no longer true. Evidence of Giuliani's gain...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2006 Super Bowl Champions, the Pittsburgh Steelers, are ranked as the No. 1 favorite National Football League (NFL) team among U.S. adults who follow pro football. Though the Steelers were in the top five last year, this is their first time at the top of this list since tracking began on this topic in 1998. The Dallas Cowboys remain at No. 2, a position they have held since 2004. Rounding out the top five are the Indianapolis Colts (No. 3, moving up five percentage points from last year's ranking), the Green Bay Packers...

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...

Search - Finance Home - Yahoo! - Help Welcome [Sign In] To track stocks & more, Register Financial News Enter symbol(s)   Symbol Lookup Press Release Source: Harris Interactive Iraq, 9/11, Al Qaeda and Weapons of Mass Destruction: What the Public Believes Now, According to Latest Harris PollFriday February 18, 10:46 am ET ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The latest Harris Poll conducted following the recent elections in Iraq finds that on many aspects U.S. adults have not changed their basic views about Iraq with one important exception: The number of adults who favor bringing troops home in the next year has increased significantly...

THE WASHINGTON TIMES Americans have come to perceive conservatism as a stronghold of traditional ideas: According to a new Harris poll, the public believes conservatives support moral values and oppose same-sex "marriage," homosexual rights and abortion. And liberals provided almost a mirror image of the findings. According to a survey of 2,209 adults in mid-January, 85 percent said conservatives opposed same-sex "marriage." When asked the same question about liberals, 78 percent said the group would support same-sex "marriage." Another 81 percent said conservatives opposed homosexual rights while 82 percent said that liberals would support the same issue. In addition, 77...

A new Harris Poll measures the levels of trust which Americans have in important institutions, and compares the results with those in a virtually identical European survey. For many institutions the levels of trust, or distrust, on both sides of the Atlantic were similar. There were also some striking differences. Americans showed much less trust than Europeans in the media and in the United Nations. On the other hand, Americans, more than Europeans, trust religious institutions. Both Americans and Europeans had relatively high levels of trust in their police and military. Both Americans and Europeans had very little trust in...

December 27, 2004 -- Oprah for president! That's who Americans want in the White House, according to a new Harris pop-culture poll done for Parade magazine. When 3,077 adults were asked whom they'd most like to see run for president, the talk-show queen won with 21 percent. After Oprah, we voted for Bill O'Reilly, with 8 percent, Will Smith, with 7 percent, and Jon Stewart, Donald Trump and Richard Gere, all tied with 6 percent.

Harris Poll Uses Nuanced Definition of "Likely Voter."

Likely Voters* George W. Bush 47% John Kerry 48 Ralph Nader 1 Other 1 Not sure/Refused 2 Methodology: The Harris Poll was conducted online within the U.S. Oct. 21-25, 2004 among a nationwide cross section of 2,493 likely voters.

The Harris poll I linked to earlier had some interesting pieces of information in it. Here is the relevant section of the writeup again: Using one definition of likely voters, those who are registered to vote and are “absolutely certain” to vote, the poll shows President Bush with a modest two-point lead (48% to 46%). Using this definition but excluding all those who were old enough to vote in 2000 but did not do so, President Bush has a commanding eight-point lead (51% to 43%). This second definition has proved more accurate in the past, but there are some indications...

Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:01:08 -0700 (PDT) From: "Mr. B. Wood" [REDACTED] Subject: Complaint about Misrepresented Polls from Harris To: info@ncpp.org CC: info@harrisinteractive.com Dear Sirs, Harris has noted that their polls comply with your requirements and standards. However, I have specifically requested 2 key items as noted in the message below, which they have not yet provided. The poll in question is the following: http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=495 When considering that Gallup, and most other respected polling organizations (including CBS' own recent poll in the midst of "Rathergate") do NOT concur with these results, it is disingenuous, and potentially deceptive for them...

Subject:  9-16 Harris Poll and National Council on Public PollsDear Sirs at Harris,   I found your most recent poll very interesting.  Not only for the information that it presents, but also for what it appears to lack...    You have noted that your poll "conform[s] to the principles of disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls."  The most basic requirement and purpose of these standards is to provide a: "commitment to standards of disclosure designed to insure that consumers of survey results that enter the public domain have an adequate basis for judging the reliability and validity of...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The presidential election is still very close. Neither President George W. Bush nor Senator John Kerry is campaigning hard, but neither has found a way to pull ahead. In the latest Harris Poll, the two candidates are tied 47 to 47 percent among likely voters. The only Harris Poll to find either candidate to have a clear lead was in June, when a poll taken shortly after President Ronald Reagan's death reported a ten-point Bush lead. We believed (and reported) this to be a blip caused by the good feeling surrounding the memories of...

What kind of effect do you think the documentary film, Fahrenheit 9/11, will have on public opinion toward the Bush administration? Poll: Harris Interactive Weekly Poll Results What kind of effect do you think the documentary film, Fahrenheit 9/11, will have on public opinion toward the Bush administration? Negative, this will focus even more attention on President Bush’s failed policies. 31% 128 of 401 Positive, this film and its director, Michael Moore, will do more damage to their own side with their distorted propaganda. 27% 109 of 401 Positive, liberals should not stoop to the level of conservative talk radio....

The Harris Poll. June 8-15, 2004. N=991 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3 (total sample). . "If the next presidential election were held today between George W. Bush for the Republicans, John Kerry for the Democrats, and Ralph Nader as an independent, for whom would you most likely vote?" . GeorgeW. Bush John Kerry Ralph Nader None of These (vol.) Not Sure % % % % % 6/8-15/04   ALL 48 42 7 - 2   Likely voters 51 41 6 - 1 . 4/8-15/04   ALL 43 43 9 2 2   Likely voters 46 43 8 1 2...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Is it the effect of the nation's memories of Ronald Reagan or the expanding economy? Whatever the cause, the latest Harris Poll has a lot of good news for President Bush and the Republicans. The good news includes: However, the most startling change in the new Harris Poll compared to a comparable survey in April, is that President Bush has widened his lead over Senator John Kerry, from three points among likely voters then to 10 points now.

New Harris poll shows Bush ahead by 10 points in three way race. Approval jumps for most cabinet members. Note: Harris does Zogby-like approval, asking Excellent/Good/Fair/Poor. Then splits into Excellent/Good and Fair/Poor. This tends to lead to a higher disapproval, as many who would say 'yes' to a simple approval Q will say 'fair' to this poll. Overall this is great news.

The Ronald Reagan Effect? Friday June 18, 7:00 pm ET President Bush's lead over Kerry widens and Cabinet members' ratings also rise ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Is it the effect of the nation's memories of Ronald Reagan or the expanding economy? Whatever the cause, the latest Harris Poll has a lot of good news for President Bush and the Republicans. The good news includes: * A very modest improvement in President Bush's job ratings (which is within the possible margin of sampling error) to 50% positive, 49% negative. * Significantly improved job ratings for Vice President Dick Cheney...

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...

<p>Americans are very comfortable with the job first lady Laura Bush is doing, though many don't consider her a standout when compared with other recent first ladies, according to a new Harris Poll.</p> <p>Some 81% of adults said that Mrs. Bush has improved the image of the office of first lady. Meanwhile, respondents were split on Hillary Rodham Clinton's impact, with half saying she harmed the office's image and half saying she improved it.</p>

Democratic Lead (Now Only Three Points) in Party Identification Has Declined to a New Low, Says The Harris Poll Self-Identified Conservatives Now Outnumber Liberals 2-to-1 but Still Trail Moderates ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second year in a row, those who think of themselves as Democrats (regardless of how they actually vote) declined in 2002. The Democratic lead in party identification over Republicans has fallen from eight points in 2000 to five points in 2001 and only three points in 2002. Those who think of themselves as Democrats now outnumber Republicans by only 34% to 31%...