According to this new ABC News/Washington Post poll President Obama’s approval rating has climbed back up to 49% (up 7% points from when he had a 42% approval in October.) 49% doesn’t sound all that great until you compare it to the putrid popularity of the Republicans in Congress who have an awful 20% approval [...]

The billionaire Koch Brothers (who are behind the funding of the far right wing Tea Party) have many secret sins to hide:

Jon Huntsman had some very harsh words for the other Republican candidates for President (particularly the flip-flopping Mitt Romney and the crazy Tea Partiers Rick Perry & Michele Bachmann) in this interview today on This Week with Christine Amanpour: Unfortunately for Huntsman so far his centrist campaign has failed to gain any traction in today’s [...]

Among the materials seized from Osama Bin Laden’s compound after he was killed in Pakistan is evidence that Bin Laden was involved in the planning of future terrorist attacks against the United States. Specifically Al Qaeda was considering trying to derail a train on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 (this September 11th.) Information that Bin [...]

According to the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll President Obama holds a lead against all of his potential Republican challengers in the 2012 general election. Obama holds healthy leads over most of the GOP possibilities but his lead is only 4% points against Mitt Romney. Obama 49%, Romney 45% Obama 50%, Mike Huckabee 44% Obama [...]

For the first time a reputable national poll shows majority support among Americans for equal marriage rights for gay couples. The new Washington Post/ABC News poll 53% of Americans support gay marriage. This is up significantly from the same poll five years ago when only 36% of Americans said they supported gay marriage. Meanwhile the [...]

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll released today has President Obama gaining significant public support from their last poll. Their last poll, released in mid December, had the President at 49% approval (vs. 47% disapproval.) The new poll has the President at 54% approval (vs. 43% disapproval.) The new numbers are even more impressive if [...]

A new poll from Washington Post/ABC News of possible 2012 Presidential matchups includes good news for President Obama and very bad news for Sarah Palin. Not only does President Obama beat Alaska’s former half term Governor Sarah Palin 53% to 40% in a head to head general election matchup, but 59% of Americans say that [...]

As bad as the unemployment problem in the US is right now, it’d probably be at least 1.6 million jobs worse if McCain/Palin had won last November. The Republican approach to fixing economic problems is basically this: “Do nothing and eventually the market will correct itself.” This is exactly what Republican Herbert Hoover did from [...]

President Obama is holding a town hall on health care reform at the White House which will be aired on ABC at 10 PM EST tonight. Today’s Recommended Links (1) The AMA is largely responsible for the poor state of health care in the US. It’s important to know that the AMA is the enemy [...]