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46 Percent of Mississippi Republicans Want Interracial Marriage Banned
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsA new poll gauging Mississippi Republicans' preferences going into the 2012 election ended up revealing something more startling: 46 percent of GOP voters in the state think interracial marriage should be illegal. Results were announced Thursday by Public Policy Polling, a polling firm based in North Carolina. The company asked 400 Republican primary voters about their preferences for candidates for state and national offices, as well as their views on interracial marriage. jupiterimages In Mississippi, 46 percent of GOP primary voters think interracial marriage should be illegal, ...
Wisconsin Do-Over? Scott Walker Would Lose if Election Held Today, Poll Finds
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsApparently, an extended standoff with state workers at the state capitol in Wisconsin has not worked wonders for Gov. Scott Walker's popularity. According to a survey from Public Policy Polling, Wisconsin voters say in a hypothetical rematch they would now vote for defeated Democratic nominee Tom Barrett over Walker by a 52-45 margin. Walker beat Barrett by roughly that same margin in November. PPP says the shift can almost entirely be attributed to union affiliation, a demographic that Walker may have expected he would mildly alienate when he began putting efforts in motion to strip state ...
Poll: Mike Huckabee Takes Lead Among Potential GOP Presidential Picks
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyWhile Mike Huckabee has been cagey about whether he'll make another run for the White House, a new poll out Friday finds the former Arkansas governor leading the pack among potential GOP presidential candidates for 2012. The Public Policy Polling survey has Huckabee with a solid 24 percent support among respondents, ahead of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney, the ex-governor of Massachussetts, who are tied at 14 percent. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich comes in third with 11 percent, followed by Tim Pawlenty, the ex-governor of Minnesota, with 8 percent. PPP ...
PBS the Most Trusted News Outlet, Fox the Most Distrusted, Poll Finds
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsWhat a difference a year can make. According to a new Public Policy Polling survey, a majority of Americans say they don't trust Fox News, just a year after the same poll found that the conservative-leaning network was the most trusted major outlet. This year, however, Americans surveyed said they trust PBS much more than Rupert Murdoch's cable outlet. Asked to rate a number of different news organizations, 50 percent of those polled said they trusted PBS as a news source, while just 30 percent said they did not. In contrast, Fox News had a much less favorable split, with 42 percent of ...
Rod Blagojevich Deeply Unpopular; Rahm Emanuel Viewed Positively in Chicago, Survey Finds
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyHere's an accomplishment Rod Blagojevich won't be putting on his resume. The disgraced former governor of Illinois has been named the most unpopular person ever to be the subject of a statewide survey by Public Policy Polling. The new poll out Friday finds a whopping 83 percent of voters in Illinois have an unfavorable opinion of Blagojevich -- compared to only 8 percent who see him positively. That's a spread of 75 percentage points, the most ever in these surveys. Blagojevich, who faces a retrial next year on corruption charges, unseats the previous deeply unpopular record-holder: Levi ...
Poll: Obama Losing to Romney, Huck & Newt (but Tied With Palin)
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyA new survey out from Public Policy Polling should give Republicans hope they can defeat President Obama in 2012. According to the poll, Obama "trails Mitt Romney 46-43, Mike Huckabee 47-45, Newt Gingrich 46-45, and is even tied with Sarah Palin at 46. The only person tested he leads is Jan Brewer, who doesn't have particularly high name recognition on the national level at this point." Analysis suggests these Republican candidates are polling ahead of Obama because they "lead within independents in every match-up" and because their party is unified around them "to an equal or even greater ...
The Polling Business: A Close Look at Rasmussen Reports
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyA good percentage of the polls you see in Poll Watch, particularly in our weekly round-up of poll ratings by state for President Obama, come from Rasmussen Reports, a survey firm whose methodology has been a subject of debate among those who follow the field. For those of you interested in knowing more about the prolific operation that bears the name of its founder Scott Rasmussen, there's a long profile of him in today's Washington Post. A number of major news organizations like the New York Times will not cite Rasmussen's surveys because, unlike polls by Gallup, the Pew Research Center and ...
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