Gallup 1/27
Obama Ratings Historically Polarized
The historically high gap between partisans' job approval ratings of Barack Obama continued during Obama's third year in office, with an average of 80% of Democrats and 12% of Republicans approving of the job he was doing. ...

Andrew Kohut 1/27
Don't Mind the Gap
... What's different these days is that a despondent public, struggling with difficult times and an uncertain future, is upset over a perceived lack of fairness in public policy. ...

NBC News 1/26
Gingrich leads Romney, but badly trails Obama
Newt Gingrich leads Mitt Romney among Republicans, but he is the weakest of the Republican candidates tested against President Obama, according to an NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday evening. ...

Kaiser Family Foundation (pdf) 1/26
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll
Earlier this month, parties challenging certain aspects of the 2010 health reform law ... filed their opening briefs with the Supreme Court. As the Court prepares to hear arguments in the case in March, most of the public believes the Justices' own ideological views will play at least some role in their decision. ...

Resurgent Republic 1/26
Obama Underperforms Among Hispanic Voters In Florida
... President Obama continues to underperform among Florida Hispanic voters and has done little to bolster his standing among this critical swing state demographic since our September survey last year. ...

Gallup 1/26
Post-State of the Union Analysis
Gallup data reveal how Americans' views line up with 16 specific issues President Obama raised in his 2012 State of the Union address. ...

New York Times: Marjorie Connelly 1/26
Consumer Confusion on Where Apple Devices Are Made
The outsourcing of manufacturing jobs remains a major sore point for most Americans. But owners of some of the nation's most popular electronics -- including iPhones and iPads -- are less concerned than other Americans about where their purchases are made, according to a nationwide survey conducted by The New York Times. ...

Hollywood Reporter 1/25
Time Warner Opens Medialab at New York Headquarters
Time Warner will on Wednesday formally unveil a newly established Medialab at its midtown Manhattan headquarters designed to provide cutting-edge research for its media and entertainment operations in the digital age. ...

Democracy Corps 1/25
President Obama Scores With Middle Class Message
Dial testing and follow-up focus groups with 50 swing voters in Denver, Colorado, show that President Obama's populist defense of the middle class and their priorities in his State of the Union scored with voters. The President generated strong responses on energy, education and foreign policy, but most important, he made impressive gains on a range of economic measures. ...

ABC News 1/25
Obama Leads by Wide Margins Among Latinos
Only nine months from Election Day, Latino voters -- the nation's fastest-growing voting bloc -- favor President Obama over all the Republican candidates by a wide margin, according to a new poll conducted by Latino Decisions for Univision News and ABC News, a welcome boost for a White House facing a difficult reelection fight. ...

National Journal 1/25
Americans Hold Nuanced Views on Romney, Payroll Cut
A plurality of Americans surveyed favor paying for an extension of the payroll-tax cut with a combination of spending cuts and higher taxes on the wealthy, the plan favored by Democrats, according to the latest United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll. ...

Gallup 1/25
Financial Worries Rival Those of 1992
Americans' worries about maintaining their standard of living (51%), or being able to pay medical bills (43%) or losing their job (34%) in the next 12 months are among the highest Gallup has measured in the past 20 years, on par with the levels seen in 1991 and 1992. ...

Mark Mellman 1/25
Mean and extreme
... The "we-hate-moderates" positioning sells well in Republican primaries, but in 2010, moderates, together with liberals, made up 58 percent of the November electorate, and in the last presidential year, that segment comprised 66 percent of the voters. ...