Category Archives: Polls

The end of the Obama honeymoon?

Posted by Chris Cillizza We’ve grappled in this space with how long President Obama’s second political honeymoon will last – and what he might be able to accomplish in that time. In the immediate aftermath of his victory last November, President Obama’s popularity surged and Republicans in Congress capitulated to him on the fiscal cliff [...]

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Obama’s approval drops as Americans take a dimmer view of his economic policies

By Jon Cohen and Karen Tumulty, The afterglow of President Obama’s reelection and inauguration appears to have vanished as increasingly negative views among Americans about his stewardship of the economy have forced his public approval rating back down to the 50 percent mark, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. In December, just after [...]

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President Obama Job Approval

Poll Date Sample Approve Disapprove Spread RCP Average 2/21 – 3/5 — 48.5 45.5 +3.0 Quinnipiac 2/27 – 3/4 1944 RV 45 46 -1 Gallup 3/3 – 3/5 1500 A 48 44 +4 Rasmussen Reports 3/3 – 3/5 1500 LV 51 48 +3 FOX News 2/25 – 2/27 1010 RV 46 47 -1 Reason-Rupe/PSRAI 2/21 [...]

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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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Ted Cruz: Mitt Romney ‘French-kissed’ Barack Obama

    By KEVIN ROBILLARD Sen.-elect Ted Cruz believes Mitt Romney got a little too close to Barack Obama in the third presidential debate. “I’m pretty certain Mitt Romney actually French-kissed Barack Obama,” Cruz said in a speech at the Federalist Society’s annual conference Friday. Cruz said that conservatives failed to make their case to [...]

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President Obama’s reelection: 12 takeaways

By MAGGIE HABERMAN  It’s over.   And the 2012 presidential race pretty much played out as predicted by public pollsters and observers. Except it was a better night for President Barack Obama in certain significant respects than was anticipated.   He defeated Mitt Romney in nearly all of the battleground states, including Virginia and Ohio, [...]

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Barack Obama the not-so-happy warrior

  Obama officials say their boss had no choice but to run the campaign he did. | AP Photo By GLENN THRUSH   Barack Obama’s enthusiasm gap began at home.   There is a surprisingly simple explanation for Obama’s up-and-down performance as a candidate during his reelection grind in 2012, for those lackluster TV appearances, [...]

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Tampa Bay Times/Bay News 9 poll: I-4 voters back Romney 51-45

By Adam C. Smith, Times Political Editor   It has been a fundamental rule of Florida politics for decades: Statewide campaigns are won and lost on the I-4 corridor.   Today that celebrated swing-voter swath stretching from Tampa Bay to Daytona Beach is poised to deliver Florida’s 29 electoral votes to Mitt Romney.   An [...]

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Newt Gingrich: 300 electoral votes for Mitt Romney

  By KATIE GLUECK Newt Gingrich is predicting that this election will be a near-landslide victory for Mitt Romney. “I believe the minimum result will be 53-47 Romney, over 300 electoral votes, and the Republicans will pick up the Senate,” the former House speaker said Thursday night on Fox News’s “On the Record with Greta [...]

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Obama: The Man Who Fell to Earth

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