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Your Results: Does Fox News tilt further right than CNN tilts to the left?

Are you pleased overall with the election results? Total Votes = 372 Yes 40.86 % No 27.41 % Don't care

Does Fox News tilt further to the right than CNN tilts to the left?

Who do you think is the most likely GOP Contender in 2012 of this group?Scroll down a bit... on the right side.

How bad for Obama? Election: How bad for Obama? Major bad Minor bad Not bad at all Not sure ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Major bad 49% (319 votes) Minor bad 27% (176 votes) Not bad at all 21% (135 votes) Not sure 2% (15 votes) Total Votes: 645

Currently: YES (56 responses) 11.0% NO (455 responses) 89.0% 511 total responses

What do you think of President Obama's job performance? Approve Disapprove And: Did you vote for Pres__ent Obama?

Do you agree with late polls that say Republicans could sweep today's elections? Yes No Undecided Other

No bias in the reporting of this new poll eh? They fail to report on some pretty significant drops in the poll....drops that if it had been swung the other way would of been in big bold letters: Fifty-four percent of respondents to the latest CNN poll disapprove of Barack Obama’s performance on the economy, a 17-point swing in six weeks. That isn’t the worst of the poll, either; 57% now disapprove of Obama’s performance on health care, a 19-point swing in that same time. ~~~ a 17-point reversal on the economy and a 19-point reversal on health care would...

Do you approve of the job President Obama is doing? Yes No

Vote in this online poll. Here are the poll numbers at the time of this post: Yes 53% 18,628 No 47% 16,837

The Democratic candidates for governor in Virginia and New Jersey are in trouble. Should Tuesday's election results be viewed as a statement about Obama's presidency?

Update at 8:50 a.m. ET, Nov. 2: Another update on the response to this post. As you can see, there are now more than 1.1 million votes on the survey and 2,100 comments with this post. We've also received several hundred e-mails. Here's a representative sample: -- Chuck Parker: "Conservatives should be allowed to have one Network on their side, that being FOX since the libs have ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC acting as unpaid mouth pieces for Obama." -- Paul Ingram: "NPR should be more objective instead of being a mouthpiece for the Obama administration, What a great...

Hoffman Leads Owens 41-36%; Undecided up to 18% Hoffman Leads in South; Owens Leads in East; Tied in West Favorability Ratings: Hoffman Up; Owens Slips; Biden Good with Dems Loudonville, NY. On the eve of Election Day, Conservative Doug Hoffman has opened up a five point lead over Democrat Bill Owens in the race for the 23rd Congressional District. Republican Assembly member Dede Scozzafava still gets six percent support, but since her decision to suspend her campaign and support Owens, the number of undecided voters has doubled from nine percent to 18 percent, according to a new Siena (College) Research...

YOUR CHANCE TO CAST YOUR VOTE: AT&T/YahooPoll.... This totally non-partisan poll asks but one question. The question is stated very simply... and, to the point.

It's no wonder people oppose it. The Wall Street Journal this morning called the Pelosi bill "The Worst Bill Ever," with a subheadline "Epic new spending and taxes, pricier insurance, rationed care, dishonest accounting: The Pelosi health bill has it all."

Good news, but with lots of caveats. Here are some interesting facts from our unweighted numbers so far:-In a three way contest Doug Hoffman leads Bill Owens by 19 points. In a two way contest Hoffman leads Owens by 15 points. So the Dede Scozzafava withdrawal and endorsement will probably tighten the race some but not nearly enough.-58% of Republicans think that Scozzafava’s a liberal and that was obviously before her endorsement today.-The Rush Limbaugh effect- Hoffman has a 79 point lead with Rush listeners while Owens has a 6 point lead with people who don’t listen to the show....

With about 200 interviews down we had Hoffman 45 Owens 26 Scozzafava 17...her withdrawal will just make it that much easier for Hoffman Well that wrecks our NY-23 poll. We're finding Hoffman with more support than Owens and Scozzafava combined...explains the withdrawal

(See all these news nuggets and more by clicking the excerpt link below): 1. BBC News: “Darwin Teaching ‘Divides Opinion’” Darwinism is a controversial topic, and many believe creation should be taught in the classroom. But why is that news? 2. ScienceDaily: “Junk DNA Mechanism that Prevents Two Species from Reproducing Discovered” Has the U.S. government finally supported creationist research? Alas, no, but the results of a National Institutes of Health study fit squarely within the young-earth creation framework. 3. PhysOrg: “Charles Darwin Really Did Have Advanced Ideas about the Origin of Life” Charles Darwin was convinced that life’s origin...

Are the news media treating President Obama "better" than they did President George W. Bush? Yes No

If members of Congress were up for a job review right now — instead of a year from now — the ranks of the unemployed would swell to an even higher level. Americans place a lot of the blame for conditions in the country on Congress and, because of that, about two-thirds want to “throw them out” of office, according to the latest FOX News poll. The national telephone poll was conducted for FOX News by Opinion Dynamics Corp. among 900 registered voters from October 27 to October 28, 2009. The poll has a 3-point error margin. A sizable majority...

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In the war between Fox News and the Whitehouse, I'm supporting: The White House on this one; Fox News isn't "fair and balanced." Fox News on this one; it asks questions others don't and the White House should be able to handle them. Neither side. They're both trying to play this "feud" to their advantage.

Tea Party Patriots 2012 Presidential Poll Who do you think would make a great conservative president? (Consider only their commitment to the constitution, charisma and personal integrity. Do NOT consider their ability to win.)

What's your general opinion of Sarah Palin? Mostly positive Mostly negative Neutral AND What's your general opinion of Levi Johnston? Mostly positive Mostly negative Neutral

Thank you for voting! The White House on this one; Fox News isn't "fair and balanced." 47% (154,206 votes) Fox News on this one; it asks questions others don't and the White House should be able to handle them. 51% (166,693 votes) Neither side. They're both trying to play this "feud" to their advantage. 2% (6,155 votes) Total Votes: 327,054

In White House Vs. Fox News War Of Words, Who Gets Your Vote?The stories about what the Obama White House has to say about Fox News Channel keep coming. There was White House communications director saying telling Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post and CNN "let's not pretend they're a news network the way CNN is." Also last week it was NPR's David Folkenflik reporting that "the White House is taking direct aim at Fox News, the news organization that is the home to the most potent collection of its conservative critics." This week it's ABC News' Jake Tapper asking...

Poll: Offshore drilling Should Florida allow drilling for oil within five miles of its Gulf Coast beaches? Yes No

In White House Vs. Fox News War Of Words, Who Gets Your Vote?The stories about what the Obama White House has to say about Fox News Channel keep coming. There was White House communications director saying telling Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post and CNN "let's not pretend they're a news network the way CNN is." Also last week it was NPR's David Folkenflik reporting that "the White House is taking direct aim at Fox News, the news organization that is the home to the most potent collection of its conservative critics." This week it's ABC News' Jake Tapper asking...

The stories about what the Obama White House has to say about Fox News Channel keep coming. There was White House communications director saying telling Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post and CNN "let's not pretend they're a news network the way CNN is." Also last week it was NPR's David Folkenflik reporting that "the White House is taking direct aim at Fox News, the news organization that is the home to the most potent collection of its conservative critics." This week it's ABC News' Jake Tapper asking why the Obama team was treating one of the "sister organizations" so...

So we have the poll, showing Corzine up 43-38. But as Jim Geraghty points out, they also had Obama winning last year by 23. The final margin was only 15. They also had Sen. Frank Lautenberg beating his rival by 22, and he only won by 14.

This needs Freeping badly, folks.

While the stock market has picked up and the country appears to be pulling out of the recession, a majority of Americans - for the first time in the Obama presidency - says the U.S. is headed down the wrong track, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll conducted Oct. 22-25. Fifty-two percent say the country is on the wrong track compared to 36 percent who say it is headed in the right direction with 9 percent saying conditions are mixed and 3 percent undecided. While there have been pluralities saying the U.S. is on the wrong track in...

This week it's ABC News' Jake Tapper asking why the Obama team was treating one of the "sister organizations" so badly -- and the news that the White House had tried to block a Fox News reporter from interviewing the so-called pay czar. (After all the networks objected, the White House relented.) It seems like time for a survey http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/10/in_white_house_vs_fox_news_war.html

This week's poll Should the Obama administration be able to set limits on pay for executives at companies receiving bailout money? Yes 77.40% No 22.60%

I'm supporting: The White House on this one; Fox News isn't "fair and balanced." Fox News on this one; it asks questions others don't and the White House should be able to handle them. Neither side. They're both trying to play this "feud" to their advantage.

Freep this poll FWIW...this was the email sent to me: DO NOT MISS YOUR CHANCE TO CAST YOUR VOTE: Finally, a chance to vote on President Obama's performance on this Economy and where he is taking this nation .... AT&T/Yahoo Poll.... This totally non-partisan poll asks but one question. The question is stated very simply... and, to the point. No tricks. No hidden messages. JUST ONE SINGLE, SIMPLE QUESTION. I don't know why this hasn't been done before.. I'm impressed with the fact that the question is NOT "phrased" in a way that it can be interpreted or misrepresented later...to...

PUBLIC OPTION POLL

This is a broken glass election for Republicans. People cannot wait to get out and do some tangible, consequential thing to stop the Democrat juggernaut that is destroying the country before our very eyes. Those numbers showing huge disparities between the motivation of the two parties will be the difference that puts Christie over the top.

Can anyone really be surprised? Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group. ~~~ Conservatism is most prevalent among Republicans. However, the overall increase in this ideological stance since 2008 comes largely from political independents, among whom 35% say they are conservatives thus far in 2009 — compared with 29%...

Monday, October 26, 2009 Email to a Friend ShareThisAdvertisement The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 29% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -12 (see trends). Thirty-three percent (33%) say the stimulus package enacted earlier this year has helped the economy.Thirty-one percent (31%) say it hurt. This week’s tracking poll data on the proposed health care reform will be released at 10:30 a.m. Eastern. Premium Members can get an advance look...

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 30% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10 (see trends). Check out our review of last week’s key polls to see “What They Told Us.” The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). Updates also available on...

Not to be the master of the obvious here, but it is going to be hard to convince people that the earth is warming . . . when it is not. The earth's temperature peaked in 1998. It's been falling ever since; it dropped dramatically in 2007 and got worse in 2008, when temperatures touched 1980 levels. But we'll give ABC credit for reporting the poll numbers. Then they get downright hilarious trying to discredit it eight ways to Sunday. The advocacy is top-notch, it is just too bad that they don't see it as such.

What grade would you give Barack Obama on his presidency so far?

How would you rate the job the Tucson City Council has done this year? Good Fair Poor Undecided. They're all RATS except for the RINO mayor.

For the first time in recent years, voters trust Republicans more than Democrats on all 10 key electoral issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports. The GOP holds double-digit advantages on five of them. Republicans have nearly doubled their lead over Democrats on economic issues to 49% to 35%, after leading by eight points in September. The GOP also holds a 54% to 31% advantage on national security issues and a 50% to 31% lead on the handling of the war in Iraq. But voters are less sure which party they trust more to handle government ethics and corruption, an issue...

Anyone surprised?They certainly lost touch with me. When the Democrat Party became the Socialist Party, the Republican Party became the Democrat Party. If the conservatives can’t take back the Republican Party, then we’ll need a new party.

Gallup recorded an average daily approval rating of 53 per cent for Mr Obama for the third quarter of the year, a sharp drop from the 62 per cent he recorded from April. His current approval rating – hovering just above the level that would make re-election an uphill struggle – is close to the bottom for newly-elected president. Mr Obama entered the White House with a soaring 78 per cent approval rating.