In a strong sign that President Obama’s economic policies are working; Gallup has shown a steady decrease in “underemployed” Americans throughout 2010. According to Gallup polling in late January; 20.5% of Americans were “underemployed” and today that number is down to 17.2%. That is a significant 16% drop in underemployment over the course of this [...]

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A new Quinnipiac national poll of Republican voters for the 2012 GOP nomination has the following results: #1 Sarah Palin 19% #2 Mitt Romney 18% #3 Mike Huckabee 17% #4 Newt Gingrich 15% #5 Tim Pawlenty 6% When looking at these numbers I think it’s interesting to think about who would these voters switch support [...]

For purely political reasons the Republicans are blocking President Obama’s START treaty. This treaty will help make the United States safer and has strong support throughout the military. Simply put it’s an agreement between the United States and Russia to decrease the amount of nuclear weapons that each country has. Decreasing the amount of nuclear [...]

There’s a story going around today about how President Obama only has 39% approval (according to a new Zogby poll) but it’s important to point out that Zogby is a very untrustworthy pollster and that both Gallup and Rasmussen (which has a heavy Republican bias) both have President Obama at 47% approval! President Obama’s approval [...]

In a very strong move, House Democrats are now planning on voting for just the middle class tax cut (without the tax cut on income over 250K included.) If this vote is successful and then passed in the Senate and signed by the President it would extend tax cuts on all income under 250K. The [...]

I think the Republican establishment will do their best to take out Sarah Palin in the next year or so, to make sure she is not the Republican nominee for President. They know she is very popular with the Republican base, but they also know she is extremely unpopular with the general voting public. They [...]

Obviously it’s extremely early, but it’s still a good sign for President Obama that he’s up in Virginia against all of the most likely GOP nominees according to this new poll from PPP. Obama 48%, Mitt Romney 43% Obama 49%, Mike Huckabee 44% Obama 52%, Newt Gingrich 41% Obama 51%, Sarah Palin 40% It’s not [...]

According to Gallup unemployment is on the way down (9.2% during the first half of November) and President Obama’s approval is on the way up (48% as of today.) While neither of these numbers are particularly good, they are headed in the right direction. Meanwhile; The Republicans are blocking a permanent extension of middle class [...]

I think it’s clear that Republicans are making a huge mistake if they think the voters of this country have given them a mandate to use their new House majority to spend the next two years trying to repeal health care reform (which is not going to happen), start frivolous investigations into the Obama admin, [...]