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Congressional Approval Drops Below 20 Percent, Poll Finds
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyAmericans' approval of the job Congress is doing is on the decline again, hitting 18 percent this month after inching above the 20 percent mark in February, according to a new poll out Friday. The Gallup survey found that Congress' approval rating is "essentially back to where it was just after last November's midterm elections." Following a historical trend, voters' approval bumped up slightly when the new Congress took office in January, giving the GOP control of the House. Americans generally feel better about their representatives on Capitol Hill immediately following power shifts. But ...
Still No Clear Frontrunner in Latest Poll on 2012 GOP Presidential Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe latest poll on the pecking order of potential candidates for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination shows the same familiar four in the top tier -- Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich -- although Gingrich does not run as close to the other three as he has in some other surveys. Huckabee leads the pack with 18 percent, followed by Romney and Palin, each at 16 percent, and Gingrich at 9 percent, according to a Gallup poll conducted Feb. 18-20 among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents. Huckabee moved ahead of Romney after trailing him by 3 points in Gallup's ...
Majority Opposes Limits on Collective Bargaining Power, Poll Finds
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyMost Americans say they are against any laws reducing the collective bargaining power of unionized civil service workers as a way to balance a state's budget, according to a new survey out Tuesday. The USA Today/Gallup poll comes as there's no end in sight to the week-long budget showdown between Wisconsin's public employee unions and Gov. Scott Walker. Pollsters found that 61 percent of respondents would oppose a law in their state similar to the one being floated by Walker that would reduce the ability of Wisconsin's state employee unions to bargain. Just 33 percent said they would support ...
Number of 'Solid' Democratic States Drops as More Become Competitive
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyTo see how far the fortunes of Democrats have fallen since their big victories of 2008, all you have to do is look at a map. Gallup has put one together based on its tracking polls of party affiliation and it shows that the number of states that were "solid Democratic" has dropped by slightly more than half since two years ago. While the Democrats overall still can claim more states than Republicans as solidly in their column based on the number of Americans who say they identify with the party, the number of states in that category has dropped from 30 to 14. However, while these figures ...
Americans Say Reagan Is Greatest President, Poll Finds
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyNumber 40 is No. 1. Just in time for Presidents Day, Ronald Reagan tops a list of the nation's greatest chief executives, ahead of Abraham Lincoln, according to a new survey out Friday. The Gallup Poll puts Reagan, with 19 percent, in the top spot for the third time. Reagan also occupied the position in 2001 and 2005 -- and he has been in the top three eight times since Gallup started asking the "greatest president" question 12 years ago. Lincoln garnered 14 percent, followed very closely by Bill Clinton, with 13 percent. John F. Kennedy, who was on top in 2000 and tied with Lincoln in ...
GOP Candidate Would Tie Obama in 2012, Poll Finds
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyVoters are as likely to support the GOP candidate -- whomever that may be -- as they are President Obama in 2012, according to a new survey out Wednesday. The Gallup poll found 45 percent of respondents said they would vote for Obama for a second term, compared with 45 percent saying they'd back "the Republican Party's candidate." The numbers were similar to the results for the same question when it was asked a year ago, according to Gallup. While Obama enjoyed wide support from women and nonwhites in 2008, the same might not be true in 2012. Gallup found a majority of whites favor the GOP ...
Polls Show Public May Not Know What It Wants on Health Care Law
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Another day, another health care poll. The latest CBS News poll shows 55 percent oppose Republican efforts to cut funding for the new health care law. Democratic rapid-response teams quickly e-mailed the CBS poll. It bolstered their argument that GOP efforts to get around the Senate's refusal to vote on repeal by zeroing out funding will backfire politically down the road. Yet the survey also tracked others in giving Republicans something to crow about: 51 percent said they disapprove of the law vs. 33 percent who approve. Further in the weeds, however, opinion was almost ...
Public Optimism About the Economy at a Three-Year High
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyOne of the factors that may be fueling President Obama's recent rise in job approval polls is that Americans are feeling better about the economy. New figures from Gallup, gathered from its January tracking surveys, found optimism about the economy at its highest since the pollster began tracking it in 2008. Forty-one percent believe the economy is getting better, a slight rise over 38 percent a year ago and a big improvement from the 16-17 percent level in the previous two years at the height of the financial meltdown. The two demographic groups showing the most positive feelings about the ...
Gallup Poll: Americans Divided on Obama Approach to Spending Cuts
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIt sure sounded good. Americans gave high marks to President Obama on his State of the Union speech, but are divided over whether the president or the Republican opposition has the best idea for shrinking the federal budget, a new Gallup Poll says. In a survey taken earlier this week, Gallup found that only 39 percent of the 1,004 adults contacted favored the president's proposal for a five-year freeze on domestic, non-security-related spending. Another 41 percent preferred the Republican way of pulling discretionary, homefront spending back to 2008 levels. Both plans would leave major ...
Poll: Voters Want Congress to Focus on Jobs Before Health Care
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyWhile Republicans' first act after taking over the House was to vote on repealing the health care reform law, a new poll suggests the public would rather lawmakers focus on jobs. A CBS News/New York Times survey out Thursday found 43 percent of Americans believe the most important thing for the new Congress to deal with is job creation -- compared to just 18 percent who say the top priority should be health care. Fourteen percent said the massive federal budget deficit should be foremost on the minds of lawmakers. Most Americans believe the deficit is a very serious problem that will create ...
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