I think this new Gallup poll reporting high voter enthusiasm from Republican voters in comparison to Democratic voters is a bit misleading. The question it asks is: “Compared to previous elections, are you more enthusiastic about voting than usual, or less enthusiastic?” The obvious problem with this question is that Democratic voters are comparing their [...]

While President Obama’s current approval ratings are hovering around a not so great 45% (the 44% on Gallup on June 10 being his lowest point yet) he is still up against all prospective 2012 Republican challengers according to a new poll from PPP. These are the head to head matchups (in order of how well [...]

This image with the slogan “I Want My Country Forward” (which I think originated with Bill Maher) and a job creation chart (showing the growing job losses of George W. Bush and the growing job gains of Barack Obama) is worth sharing:

Today’s Gallup poll has President Obama at 52% approval vs 41% disapproval. This is quite a turn around from just over a month ago when Obama was at only 45% approval vs. 48% disapproval. From -3% points to +11% points. 52% has been about as high as Obama has been able to get recently. If [...]

According to this new poll from Gallup, 42% of Americans want President Obama to pick a justice who will make the court more “conservative” than it is now while only 27% want him to pick someone who would make the court more liberal. You could interpret this to say that Americans want Obama to select [...]

Some recent results from Gallup polls indicate that the prospects for the Democratic Party for the 2010 midterms are looking better. Here they are: (1) Republican advantage in “voter enthusiasm” has shrunk to just 10 percentage points (43% to 33%) from 19 percentage points about a month ago. If the Democrats can continue to shrink [...]

President Barack Obama took over in January of 2009 in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression thanks in large part to the deregulation of the financial sector by Republicans (this cause of the economic crisis is what Wall Street Reform – supported by President Obama – hopes to correct.) Wall [...]

You didn’t get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President. You didn’t get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy. You didn’t get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed. You didn’t get mad when the Patriot Act got passed. You didn’t get mad [...]

Watch this video. These people are absolutely bananas (and of course, ridiculously willfully uninformed.) Listen to them praise Fox News at about 9:30 in. It’s truly disturbing. Teabaggers are nothing but the pawns of Rupert Murdoch.