Posted on April 24th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
President Obama’s first months in the Oval Office have strengthened his “standing with the American public, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, giving him political capital for battles ahead.”
As his 100th day as president approaches next Wednesday, the survey shows Obama has not only maintained robust approval ratings but also bolstered the sense that he is a [...]
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Posted on April 13th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
The latest Gallup Poll finds that most Americans are confident in President Obama ”to do or recommend the right thing for the economy,” and they have a “much higher level of confidence” in Obama than they do in ”Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, or the Democratic or Republican leaders in Congress”:
And, a new [...]
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Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
President Barack Obama is in the midst of his first trip abroad and and a new Gallup Poll shows that he is “enjoying a 61% job approval rating at home for handling foreign affairs, up seven points since February.”
The poll results on foreign affairs show his approval rating is just a bit higher that the approval [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
A new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds a majority “in favor of investigating some of the thorniest unfinished business from the Bush administration: Whether its tactics in the “war on terror” broke the law.”
Close to two-thirds of those surveyed said there should be investigations into allegations that the Bush team used torture to interrogate terrorism suspects and its [...]
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Posted on February 9th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Despite the fact the obstructionist Republicans see a gain for their party in their stand against the stimulus package, a new Gallup Poll out today shows that President Barack Obama has the “upper hand” in the fight to pass the stimulus bill:
The American public gives President Barack Obama a strong 67% approval rating for the [...]
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Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll has found that Barack Obama is earning “high marks” with the American public for his “handling of the transition and his choices for the Cabinet.”
Even with the bleak outlook over the economy and the news that we are officially in a recession, the USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows that “[M]ore than [...]
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Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I haven’t posted about the Gallup Daily Poll in a while, and I thought it worth noting that today’s Gallup Poll Daily tracking report “shows Barack Obama maintaining a 52% to 41% lead over John McCain, unchanged from Wednesday’s report.”
Frank Newport notes:
Signifying a general stability in the race, Obama has maintained a share of the vote [...]
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Posted on September 17th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Has John McLiar started to fizzle in the polls? Is the Palin bounce losing it’s spring?
If the latest Gallup Daily Tracking Poll is any indication, and mind you it is but a slight indication, we may just see a decent upturn for real change in the coming weeks:
The Sept. 14-16 Gallup Poll Daily tracking update [...]
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Posted on August 28th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Everyone’s been looking for the Obama bounce in the polls. The Gallup Daily gives Obama a 6 point lead today:
The latest three-day Gallup Poll Daily tracking average (Aug. 25-27) is directly coincident with the first three days of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, and is no doubt beginning to reflect the typical convention “bounce” [...]
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Posted on May 13th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Despite the calls from the pundits, surrogates and “creative class” bloggers for Obama, two new polls show strong support for the Democratic race for the nomination to continue.
The first poll from ABC News/Washington Post shows that “64 percent of Democrats in the latest poll say Clinton should remain in the race,” and “even among Obama’s supporters, 42 [...]
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