public opinion

The pollster who’s cited by Republicans more than anyone else is out with an outlier of a poll showing only a narrow plurality of support for confirming Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
Forty-one percent now favor confirmation of Sotomayor while 36 percent are opposed. A week ago, those figures were 45 percent and 29 percent respectively.
Rasmussen’s [...]

Earlier this week, I wrote about how the economic crisis had led record-high numbers of Americans to dismiss the threat of global warming.
Now Gallup has a new poll that confirms this trend and, for the first time in 25 years of polling, shows that most Americans would prioritize the economy at the expense of the [...]

Via Eric Kleefeld, a new CNN poll shows President Obama’s plan to end the war in 2011 to be astoundingly popular: 70 percent approve and 29 percent don’t. It’s hard to remember that this issue was once the most controversial in American politics.
As Eric notes, the poll doesn’t (so far) break down why the 29 [...]

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.