polling

Via Max Boot, check out this USA Today poll on Afghanistan.

In the poll taken Saturday and Sunday, 42% of respondents said the United States made “a mistake” in sending military forces to Afghanistan, up from 30% in February. That’s the highest mark since the poll first asked the question in November 2001 when the U.S.-led [...]

Despite the administration’s focus on environmental issues, polls show that fewer Americans are worried about global warming than in recent years. Experts say the struggling economy is responsible.

The Pollster.com average of President Obama’s approval rating is 60 percent, with only 33 percent of voters disapproving. Scott Rasmussen’s polls are way out of whack with this, giving the president only a 56-43 approval/disapproval rating. How to get taken seriously? A  column in The Wall Street Journal arguing that his polls are right.
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For two weeks, Republicans cited polls from Rasmussen Reports to prove that the stimulus package “proposed by Barack Obama and the Congressional Democrats” was fading in popularity, and that their push to stop it was winning converts. Today’s poll on the stimulus suggests that President Obama’s publicity blitz has reversed the trend and won over [...]

Yet another new poll shows the race in Sen. John McCain’s home state of Arizona tightening — and this time, it’s within the margin of error.
Following two other polls released this week that showed McCain’s lead over Sen. Barack Obama shrinking drastically, a survey conducted by Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism and KAET-TV [...]

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 [...]

WIth both parties’ national conventions now several weeks in the past, it’s safe to say we are back in the real world when it comes to polling data — and a slew of new polls paint an increasingly bleak picture for Sen. John McCain.
Quinnipiac University released its first round of post-debate polling results today for [...]