AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
Walker Recall Effort Struggles To Gain Momentum
Controversial Book On Obama Appears To Have Lifted Key Quote
GallupPoll
Hope Sinks: The Emotional Toll of Unemployment
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Feb. 23) -- More Americans are giving up hope they can find full-time work amid the persistently ailing U.S. jobs market, and that spells trouble for the very economic recovery that could help them. Three surveys out Tuesday show consumer sentiment is down starkly from just a month ago thanks to job worries and illustrate the toll underemployment is taking on the economy: More consumer worry usually equals less spending. A Gallup Poll of 20,000 adults in the U.S. work force indicated nearly 20 percent were working part time in January because they couldn't find a full-time job or had no ...
Poll Finds Americans Wary of Too Much Government Regulation of Business
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA new poll conducted in the days after President Obama's State of the Union address finds half of Americans believe the government should become less involved in regulating and controlling business. In the speech last week, the president proposed new regulations and fees for financial institutions and other government controls of business and industry. The Gallup survey released Tuesday shows 57 percent of respondents are worried there will be too much government regulation, while 37 percent worry that there will not be enough. Along ideological lines, more than three-quarters of ...
Congressional Agenda for 2010: Controversy and Budget Busting
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWhen Congress starts its work for the year Tuesday, Democrats in Washington will begin working on two distinct types of legislation leading up to the crucial mid-term elections in 2010 -- the bills they want to do, and the bills they have to do. At the top of the list of to-do's that Democrats are eager to tackle are passing a final version of health care reform, along with a swift pivot to dealing with the economy, or as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refers to it, "Jobs, jobs, jobs." In addition to jobs and health care, a senior aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tells Politics Daily ...
Gallup: 78 Percent of Americans Identify as Christians, Continuing Decline
By David Sessions - Politics DailyAccording to a new Gallup poll, 78 percent of Americans identify with some form of Christian faith, continuing a significant decline in religious identification over the past 50 years. In 1948, 91 percent of Americans described themselves as Christians, while only 2 percent said they had no religious identity. In 2009, the number identifying as non-religious has risen to 13 percent. "The percentage of Americans who in theory could celebrate Christmas this week as a specific component of their religious faith is down significantly from where it was 50 or 60 years ago," Gallup explains. "This ...
Obama Approval Dips Under 50 Percent Again in Gallup Poll
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyIt made news last month when President Obama's job approval rating dipped below 50 percent for the first time in Gallup's surveys, but after briefly inching back over 50 percent last week, the pollster says he's back down to 47 percent approval for the Dec. 4-6 period. ...
Obama Approval Rating Drops Below 50 Percent in Latest Gallup Poll
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyA day after conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh accused Gallup of oversampling blacks in order to keep President Obama's job approval rating about 50 percent, the pollster's latest tracking data for Nov. 17-19 shows that Obama has fallen below that benchmark. ...
Gallup Poll: Americans Falling Deeper into Debt
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyA new Gallup poll shows that not only are more Americans increasing their debts during this recession, fewer are climbing out of debt. For July, 27 percent of Americans said they were deeper in debt -- an increase since March, when the figure was at 21 percent. Similarly, 29 percent said they had managed to decrease their debt, but in March, that figure was over 33 percent. Gallup put a positive spin on the news, saying the fact that consumers were using credit during the crunch was at least some good news for the economy. When viewed in combination with another figure from the poll, though ...
Democrats Have Advantage in State-by-State Polls
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyFor people who can't get enough of Nate Silver, the results of a Gallup telephone survey on the "State of the States," released today, will be a comforting read. ...
Obama and the Polling Pandemic: Blips vs. Substance
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyThe spun-sugar Barack Obama story line inevitably had to come to an abrupt end because, in reality, handsome princes do not live with their perfect families in gingerbread castles forever. Political coverage revolves around change and flux. Frankly, it is quite boring – not to mention cloying – to keep typing analogous paragraphs about the unflappable Obama administration in proud ascendancy. ...
Gallup: 52% Say GOP is Leaderless
By David Knowles - Politics DailyA new poll by Gallup and USA Today finds that 52% of those asked to name "the main person who speaks for Republicans today" drew a blank. Further distressing for a party badly in need of attracting moderate voters, the names that did register some support are as follows:Rush Limbaugh 13John McCain 6%Mitt Romney came in at 1%; Sarah Palin did not make the list. Of course, this question is much easier to answer if your party happens to hold the White House: 67 percent of Democrats resoundingly responded that Barack Obama was their leader. In another sign of continued trouble for the GOP, 33% of ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- Irked Senate Panel Votes 30-0 to Cut Pakistan Aid
- GSA Bash Organizer Steps Down
- More Stories »
- Know Your Enemy
- Obama’s Challenge in Egypt
- The Edwards Waiting Game
- Are Doctors Doing Too Much?
- The Pagan Cult of Reagan
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics