opinion polls

When it comes to health care, at least, following the polls can be tricky.
Take this latest one Sam Stein reports on for The Huffington Post, showing that 77 percent of Americans think it’s important to have a “choice” between government-run health insurance and private coverage.  That poll comes from Survey USA. Meanwhile, Rasmussen Reports  found [...]

Americans overwhelmingly approve of President-elect Barack Obama’s cabinet appointments, but that hasn’t resulted in increased confidence in Obama’s ability to lead the country.
According to a CNN poll released Wednesday, 75 percent of Americans support Obama’s cabinet nominations, including 71 percent who back his choice of Hillary Clinton for secretary of state and 83 percent who [...]

Throughout this election cycle, many Democrats have assumed that Sen. Barack Obama must take a lead of more than one or two percentage points in the polls into Election Day because his actual numbers will get knocked down a notch by the so-called Bradley Effect — the idea that some voters disingenuously tell pollsters that [...]