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. ...