Category Archives: Gallup Poll

Obama job approval tumbles

By DONOVAN SLACK  POLITICO President Obama’s job approval rating took a hit over the weekend, falling to its lowest level in the Gallup three-day average since his reelection. His approval rating was 46 percent between Feb 29 and March 2, down from 53 percent a week earlier. The drop comes after Obama and Congress failed [...]

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Some see GOP voting tsunami coming

  By: Paul Bedard Democrats more than Republicans are getting their most loyal supporters to vote early, but with polls showing a close race among those who have voted so far, concerns are being raised about a GOP tsunami on the actual Election Day, next Tuesday. According to a GOP analysis of early voting and [...]

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Romney On Points

To use a boxing analogy, I give the 3rd and final debate to Gov. Romney on points. The pundits are saying that Romney wanted to protect his lead in the polls by denying Obama the opportunity to bait him into a potentially ugly confrontation that would make him look like the caricature that Democrats often [...]

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Gallup: Mitt Romney debate win biggest ever

  By KEVIN ROBILLARD Almost three-quarters of Americans who watched the debate believe Mitt Romney won, a record high in Gallup’s polling, driving the GOP nominee into a tie with President Barack Obama. Only 20 percent of Americans who watched think Obama won, compared to 72 percent for Romney. Among independents, 71 percent believe Romney [...]

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Who’s ‘dead’?

Thomas Lifson THE AMERICAN THINKER In only the past week we have been treated twice to predictions that a “gaffe” by Romney means that his campaign is dead. First was the purported outrage of Romney criticizing the Cairo embassy’s full grovel over the First Amendment. Then came the tape of comments at a fundraiser where [...]

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Obama Losing Rock-star Status Among Young Voters

A Commentary By Michael Barone   THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER   Last week, Barack Obama delivered speeches at universities in Chapel Hill, N.C., Iowa City, Iowa, and Boulder, Colo. The trip was, press secretary Jay Carney assured us, official government business, not political campaigning. It’s part of a pattern. Neil Munro of the Daily Caller has [...]

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Obama Approval Approval Rating Hits All-Time Low, According to Poll

  A new poll shows that President Barack Obama’s approval rating has plummeted to a new low as talks to raise the debt ceiling stalled and the president stayed out of the public eye after a Monday night speech through early Friday. The president’s average approval rating on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday was 40 percent [...]

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A grim Easter for the Obama presidency: Washington Post/ABC News poll delivers another blow to the White House

The omens certainly weren’t good for Barack Obama last week with a devastating Gallup survey showing the president with the lowest approval ratings of his presidency – just 41 percent. And according to RealClear Politics, the president now has an average disapproval rating across several major polls of nearly 50 percent. The White House received [...]

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Obama 2012 Support Slips; Now Any Generic Republican Ties Him

President Obama’s done a lot of talking recently about Winning the Future. Trouble is, he’s not. Politically. At this moment — 57% of the way through a first term with only 628 days left until the 2012 presidential election — the Democrat can only tie any conceivable Republican candidate. The GOP doesn’t even need a [...]

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Forget the liberal hype about a comeback: 2010 was a stunningly bad year for Barack Obama, and 2011 could be even worse

By Nile Gardiner gnore the revisionist hype in sections of the liberal media about President Obama staging a (mythical) political comeback – this is a presidency with an approval rating of 45 percent (according to the RealClear Politics poll of polls), that presides over a nation where just 27 percent of voters think the country [...]

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