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A new survey by Zogby International finds that people in Mexico think that granting legal status to illegal immigrants in the United States would encourage more illegal immigration to the United States. As the top immigrant-sending country for both legal and illegal immigrants, views on immigration in Mexico can provide insight into the likely impact of an amnesty, as well as other questions related to immigration. Among the findings: * A clear majority of people in Mexico, 56 percent, thought giving legal status to illegal immigrants in the United States would make it more likely that people they know would...

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It’s not quite as bad as it looks, but it’s plenty bad. Since last month, he’s down 13 points among Democrats, nine points among liberals, and 18 points among voters 18 to 29. No public option, no peace? Pollster John Zogby: President Obama is now firmly between a rock and a hard place. Democrats want a strong healthcare reform bill with a public option. Republicans and more conservative Democrats do not agree. If Obama fails to get a bill that his base supporters want, the entire Democratic Party risks alienating them; especially 18-29-year-old First Globals, who could very quickly become...

~ EXCERPT ~ ~ snip ~ President Barack Obama's job approval rating is down to 42%, with a decline in approval from Democrats the leading factor. The latest Zogby Interactive poll of 4,518 likely voters conducted from August 28-31 found 48% disapprove and 42% approve of the job Obama is doing. The poll found 75% of Democrats approve of Obama's performance, a drop of 13 points among Democrats from an interactive poll done July 21-24 of this year. That same poll found 48% of all likely voters approving of Obama's job performance, and 49% disapproving. ~snip~ In the time between...

UTICA, New York - Large numbers of U.S. adults can't keep up with economic changes and have seen their finances and quality of life decline since the start of the recession. * 44% said the economy is changing faster than they are able to change their habits. * Only 12% are better off now than they were at the start of the recession. * 42% report that their quality of life has declined over that same period, and only 7% say it has improved. The rest, 51%, have had no change or are not sure.

It is fitting that any president, especially the first (real) black president, celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as the Obama Justice Department did last month. The selection of an Arab as a prime speaker seems curious for many reasons, not least because Arabs are classified as “white.�  Eric Holder’s choice of James Zogby, a longtime apologist for Palestinian terrorism and dedicated foe of effective homeland security measures, to address the gathering seems to signal a deeper reality at the core of the Obama administration: its ever-shrinking conception of the War on Terror.Jim Zogby, the...

The Incredibly Shrinking War on Terror By: FrontPage Magazine FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, August 21, 2009 It is fitting that any president, especially the first (real) black president, celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as the Obama Justice Department did last month. The selection of an Arab as a prime speaker seems curious for many reasons, not least because Arabs are classified as “white.”  Eric Holder’s choice of James Zogby, a longtime apologist for Palestinian terrorism and dedicated foe of effective homeland security measures, to address the gathering seems to signal a deeper reality at the...

Latest News From Zogby! Developing—Obama hits record low in Zogby Interactive—45% approve…... [ read on ] (8/20/09)

President Barack Obama's popularity has plummeted to a record low, with just 45 percent of voters now approving of his performance as commander in chief, according to the latest Zogby International poll. Asked whether they approve or disapprove of the president's job performance, just 45.3 percent of likely voters say they approve. That compares with 50.5 percent who disapprove of the job Obama is doing. The results are a strong indication that contentious national debate over healthcare reform has taken a major toll on the president's popularity. Those numbers also indicate that Obama clearly is in serious political trouble, Fox...

The United States Senate recently voted on an amendment that would have allowed Right-to-Carry permit holders to carry in all other states that also grant carry permits. The amendment, sponsored by Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and David Vitter (R-La.), won a significant majority of votes, 58 to 39, but failed to reach the 60 votes needed to avoid a Senate filibuster. Anti-gun senators have long argued that the majority of Americans do not support firearm freedoms. They made this erroneous claim once again during the debate on the Thune/Vitter amendment. Now, a new poll has proven them wrong. Conducted by...

The unique persona and biography of Barack Obama generated excitement in the 2008 presidential contest. It also provoked bigotry and fear – that were manifested in ways large and small. That frightening scene where an older and disoriented woman told John McCain that she could not support Mr Obama because, in her words, “he’s an Arab”; the buttons “For McCain, Against Hussein”; and signs carried by Sarah Palin supporters using her name as an acronym for “Sane Americans ‘R’ Against Hussein”; and the lawsuit challenging Mr Obama’s right to run for president, arguing he was not a native-born American. The...

The public opinion honeymoon appears to be over for the Obama Presidency. Here’s what our latest measure of his popularity shows: “A new Zogby Interactive survey shows a slight decline in President Barack Obama’s job approval, with 48% of likely voters now approving of the job he is doing as president, down from 51% who said the same in an interactive/telephone hybrid poll conducted in mid-June. Forty-nine percent now say they disapprove of the job the president has done so far in office and 4% are not sure. “The survey found similar results when likely voters were asked specifically to...

Survey finds 51% believe U.S. on wrong track, while 41% say the nation is headed in right direction UTICA, New York—A new Zogby Interactive survey shows a slight decline in President Barack Obama’s job approval, with 48% of likely voters now approving of the job he is doing as president, down from 51% who said the same in an interactive/telephone hybrid poll conducted in mid-June. Forty-nine percent now say they disapprove of the job the president has done so far in office and 4% are not sure. The survey found similar results when likely voters were asked specifically to rate...

Pollster John Zogby says the Republican Party could be "teetering on the brink" of extinction as it fails to appeal to the fastest-growing demographic groups in America.

Rusmussen this morning, now Zogby has Obama below 50%. He got elected with 52%....

Zogby Poll: President Obama's Job Approval Falls to 48% Survey finds 51% believe U.S. on wrong track, while 41% say the nation is headed in right direction UTICA, New York—A new Zogby Interactive survey shows a slight decline in President Barack Obama’s job approval, with 48% of likely voters now approving of the job he is doing as president, down from 51% who said the same in an interactive/telephone hybrid poll conducted in mid-June. Forty-nine percent now say they disapprove of the job the president has done so far in office and 4% are not sure.

Nation Split on Nationalized Health Care by: Ben Giles, July 21, 2009 Americans’ support for health reform legislation is waning in the midst of a strong push by congressional Democrats to pass new bills in the coming weeks, a new poll released July 15 said. Only 44 percent of Americans believe the government should take a greater role in health care, according to the University of Texas/Zogby International poll. In an accompanying poll conducted on July 14, 50 percent of Americans oppose the new House health care reform bill, while only 42 percent approve. “What this poll reveals is nothing...

Just a few months before the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, a newly released Zogby poll shows that the American public overwhelmingly rejects Darwinian theory in favor of intelligent design. When asked if life developed “through an unguided process of random mutations and natural selection,” a standard definition of Darwinism, only 33 percent of respondents said they agreed with the statement. But 52 percent agreed that “the development of life was guided by intelligent design.” zogby%20graph%206-30-09.bmp The poll results come from one of four questions commissioned by Discovery Institute for a national Zogby telephone survey conducted...

I wish Gallup, or Zogby, or Investors Business Daily would do a poll of Democrats who voted for Obama, and ask them whether or not they thought they were voting for the Socialist takeover of the United States. Some of the poll questions I would like to see, include: 1) When you voted for Obama, were you voting for changing this country from a Democratic Republic to a Totalitarian Dictatorship? 2) Do you think a President has the power to fire the CEO, or any other employee for that matter, of a private corporation? 3) Should the President HAVE such...

9:12PM UAE / April 26. 2009 5:12PM GMT The American electorate is deeply divided on issues related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with voters who backed Barack Obama and John McCain holding dramatically divergent views of the conflict, what should be done to solve it, and the role the US ought to play. This is the most startling finding of a new opinion poll of 4,230 US adults. The survey found that substantial majorities believed that a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is important, that the conflict has a negative impact on US interests in the Middle East, that both Israelis...

In the weeks leading up to the US Supreme Court decision ending the 2000 presidential election, my brother, John Zogby, polled Democrats and Republicans asking each whether they would respect the outcome of the contest and view as “legitimate” the presidency of either George W Bush or Al Gore. Two thirds of Democrats said that, despite their misgivings about the process, they would still respect the outcome and see Mr Bush as the “legitimate” president: less than a third of Republicans said that they would respect Gore as “legitimate”. Based on this finding, John expressed concern at the time that...

Like many traditional Americans I have been torn between my love of country and respect for the office of President – and my fear and loathing of the man now holding that position and of his policies. I have written several posts that essentially said that we should try to defeat those policies we abhor (destruction of capitalism, nationalized healthcare, imposition of socialism, class warfare, equalization of outcomes, discarding our defenses in a dangerous world), but support Obama’s attempts to strengthen our essential financial services industry. Obama’s so-called recovery programs and his takeover of General Motors and the firing of...

WASHINGTON, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- With the economy leading all headlines, and a never-ending stream of opinion polls flowing daily, The O'Leary Report, in conjunction with Zogby International, conducted the first comprehensive survey of America's business leaders to see what they think of Obama's policies to date. The survey found that a clear majority of business leaders staunchly oppose the President's actions over the past two months.

Zogby along with the O' Leary report conducted a poll of America's business leaders, to find out what they thought of Barack Obama's first sixty days as POTUS. Not too surprising is the fact that they are not too pleased. They think the administration is disorganized, his efforts to clear up the credit market have been poor, the proposed budget spends to much and that the free choice act and proposed tax cuts are bad for buisness. In other words they feel the same way as the rest of us:

Those Saying U.S. Headed in Right Direction Continue to Increase, Now 45%However, Obama's Job Performance Drops Under 50% UTICA, NY - A March 20-23 Zogby Interactive survey shows 45% of likely voters believe the nation is headed in the right direction, a gain of five points from a similar survey completed on March 5. At the beginning of the year, only 14% held that positive view.However, President Barack Obama's ratings for job performance and favorability did not improve over earlier this month. In the most recent survey, 49% rate his job performance as excellent or good and 50% as fair...

Or was he just blowing smoke?

Has Obama hit the end of the honeymoon at 60 days in office? According to a new Zogby poll, Obama has hit 50% in his latest job-approval polls. The Boston Herald covers the details offered by the pollster: Pollster John Zogby said his poll out today will show Americans split on the president’s performance. He said the score factors out to “about 50-50.” Some polls show Obama coasting with a 65 percent job approval, but not in Zogby’s tally. “The numbers are going down,” Zogby told the Herald. “It’s not because of the gaffes, but a combination of high expectations...

Remember all those ridiculous comparisons of Obama to Lincoln by an adoring and compliant media before he was even sworn in and had served a single day in the Oval Office? What a difference two months makes. When you start out your term from the heights of Mt. Olympus, there is only one way to go — down. And, for Obama, the fall has been rather precipitious, only because the expectations for his presidency were so unrealistic and utterly devoid of any connection with reality. A new Zogby poll confirms what Obama does not seem willing to accept: the…

Poll of change: Obama’s job approval slipping to ‘50-50’ By Joe Dwinell Monday, March 23, 2009 - The honeymoon is over, a national poll will signal tomorrow as President Obama’s job approval stumbles to about 50 percent over the lack of improvement with the crippled economy. The sobering numbers come as the president backpedals from two prime-time gaffes - one comparing his bowling score to a Special Olympian and another awkwardly laughing about the economy, which prompted Steve Kroft of “60 Minutes” to ask “are you punch-drunk?” Pollster John Zogby said his poll out in the morning will show Americans...

Narrative Summary 4. Would you strongly agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, or strongly disagree that teachers and students should have the academic freedom to discuss both the strengths and weaknesses of evolution as a scientific theory? (Click excerpt link for responses) 5. Charles Darwin wrote that when considering the evidence for his theory of evolution, “…a fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.” Do you strongly agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, or strongly disagree with Darwin’s statement? (Click excerpt link for responses) 6. I am going...

INTERVIEW SNIPPET: "Frontpage Interview’s guest today is John Ziegler, a former talk show host who is the director of the documentary Blocking 'The Path to 9/11’. He is now working on a new project, HowObamaGotElected. FP: John Ziegler, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Ziegler: Thanks. It has been a weird and rather rough time. FP: Why has it been weird and rough? Ziegler: Well, when I released the Zogby poll of Obama voters I never anticipated the level of outright hatred and irrationality that would be unleashed on me. I spent most of that week deleting nasty e-mail from my inbox...

On the eve of a Republican National Convention invoking 9/11 symbols, sound bytes and imagery, half (49.3%) of New York City residents and 41% of New York citizens overall say that some of our leaders "knew in advance that attacks were planned on or around September 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed to act," according to the poll conducted by Zogby International. The poll of New York residents was conducted from Tuesday August 24 through Thursday August 26, 2004. Overall results have a margin of sampling error of +/-3.5.

A Zogby poll shows that they didn't vote for Obama because they knew about him. They did know negative things about McCain/Palin. http://www.thebulletin.us/site/index.cfm?newsid=20203826&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=8

-Dear John Ziegler and HowObamaGotElected.com Mailing List Members: First, I want to thank you for helping to support me and the cause of pushing for some accountability on the part of the media for their coverage of this past campaign. It is currently the calling of my life and I could not pursue this in a significant way without your help. Thanks to you and many, many, others, the video of Obama voters at www.howobamagotelected.com has been seen by well over a MILLION people in just its first week. This is absolutely incredible, especially for a "conservative" video. One of...

Pollster John Zogby has rejected a conservative commentator’s offer to sponsor a poll to test the knowledge of people who voted for John McCain. The commentator was proposing to mirror a poll of Obama voters that caused a political uproar when it suggested that Obama supporters didn’t know what they were voting for.

Released: November 18, 2008 Zogby Poll: Almost No Obama Voters Ace Election Test Survey finds most Obama voters remembered negative coverage of McCain/Palin statements but struggled to correctly answer questions about coverage associated with Obama/Biden UTICA, New York -- Just 2% of voters who supported Barack Obama on Election Day obtained perfect or near-perfect scores on a post election test which gauged their knowledge of statements and scandals associated with the presidential tickets during the campaign, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows. Zogby Statement on Ziegler poll: Only 54% of Obama voters were able to answer at least half...

Poor Lieberman. A few months back, his aides contacted me about testifying in front of him and Congress regarding the Muslim Brotherhood. During our conference call, his aides seemed to have determined that my characterization of the Brotherhood was not very "nuanced" (evinced by the incessant question, "But some of the Brotherhood are ok, right?" to which I would always answer "No.") Anyway and as expected, that settled that, and I was never re-asked to testify. But even though they took all these "safeguards," here Lieberman is: accused by Muslims of being, in essence, an Islamophobe. "Arab Americans want Lieberman...

Zogby is under fire for publishing a poll showing the gross ignorance Obama voters have of the ticket they voted for: The 12-question, multiple-choice survey found questions regarding statements linked to Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his vice-presidential running-mate Sarah Palin were far more likely to be answered correctly by Obama voters than questions about statements associated with Obama and Vice-President–Elect Joe Biden. They could answer questions about McCain and Palin, even erroneous ones asking which candidate considered it a foreign policy credential to be able to see Russia from his or her house? Answer: Sara Palin, but not...

A Brief Statement on Nov. 4 from John Zogby "Nov. 4, 2008 was a very big day in American history. In many ways, America took a major step closer to becoming itself – the hopes and the values that it has aspired to since our beginnings 232 years ago. It was also a very good day for pollsters. We triumphed over changes in demographics and technology and made our way through. The final results negated questions raised about cell phones, the Bradley Effect, respondents who are not truthful, and all other urban legends that have been circulated by those who...

He hasn't updated the text yet, just the graph. Obama 52.1 McCain 42.7

More special sauce from Zogby!

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UTICA, New York - As Election Day nears in the U.S. Presidential race, Democrat Barack Obama has increased his lead to 7.1 points over Republican John McCain, up from a 5.7 point advantage in yesterday's report, the latest Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby daily tracking poll shows. Pollster John Zogby: "Barack Obama is where he needs to be and John McCain is not. In a multi-candidate race, assuming the minor candidates can win around 2%, 51% can win. Obama holds the groups that he needs and continues to hold a big lead among independents and his base. McCain seems to be holding his base...

UTICA, New York -- After a strong day of polling for Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Friday, Democrat Barack Obama experienced a strong single day of polling on Saturday, retaining a 5.7 point advantage that is right at the edge of the margin of error of the Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby daily tracking poll. The race has remained remarkably stable down the stretch, this three-day rolling average poll shows. Pollster John Zogby: "Obama has consolidated his lead over McCain. His single day lead today was back to 52%-42%. He leads by 10 among independents and has solidified his base. He leads among...

Today: Obama-49.5%, McCain-43.8%, Undecided-6.7% Yesterday: Obama-49.1%, McCain-44.1%, Undecided-6.8%

Vanity: Guess Zogby's Poll Numbers The official release is in 3 hours. Still no leaks from Drudge, so maybe Zogby took a look at Gallup and got nervous.

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Half of Zogby's current national poll average was taken after Obama's infomercial ... and here are his preliminary findings.

Election day is just around the corner, and in an encouraging piece of news, John McCain has taken a one point lead in a one day Zogby poll! While other polls are not so encouraging, it's important to remember that it really doesn't matter who is ahead in the polls. What matters is who gets more of their supporters out to the polling booths to vote. Period! And this is where you come in - your help is needed to help in the final 72 hour get out the vote effort. This is crucial to getting more supporters to the...

ZOGBY SATURDAY: Republican John McCain has pulled back within the margin of error... The three-day average holds steady, but McCain outpolled Obama 48% to 47% in Friday, one day, polling. He is beginning to cut into Obama's lead among independents, is now leading among blue collar voters, has strengthened his lead among investors and among men, and is walloping Obama among NASCAR voters. Joe the Plumber may get his license after all...