In good news for the Democratic Party, President Obama’s Gallup approval ratings have been bouncing back recently. As of today Obama’s approval rating is at 47% which is bounce back of 6% points from the low of 41% he hit. As I explained recently Obama’s approval rating right now doesn’t mean much as far as […]

President Obama’s latest approval rating (as of today on Gallup) is only 43%. Many on the right are hoping that means Obama is done for and some on the left are quite worried about it.
While it’s certainly not good news for the Democratic Party that Obama’s approval rating is in the low 40s, it’s […]

For the second straight week Gallup has the Democratic Party up in the “generic ballot” House poll by at least four points (48% to 44% this week.) This is a reversal of fortunes from early June when the Republicans held a 6 point lead.
While this is good news for the Democratic Party, it should […]

President Obama’s most recent approval rating on Gallup is 47%. This is certainly not a great approval rating, but it’s also not particularly bad.
I think it’s definitely worth putting it into context. This 47% mark actually compares favorably to where Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton were at when they were at the same point […]

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 the […]

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 this […]

In a new CNN poll President Obama leads each of the top four Republican candidates for 2012 (results on the poll for the Republican primary below) by at least 8% points.
Obama 53%, Mitt Romney 45%
Obama 54%, Mike Huckabee 45%
Obama 55%, Sarah Palin 42%
Obama 55%, Newt Gingrich 43%
Each head to head shows President Obama comfortably […]