There’s good news for the Democratic Party when comparing June polls to July polls in eight competitive Senate races. In all 8 of of the races where PPP polled in both June and July the prospects for the Democratic candidate looked better in July.
Democratic pick-ups of Republican seats are now looking quite possible in Ohio […]

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 […]

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 […]

For comparison’s sake, the Democratic party has a 57% favorable rating and President Obama is at 77% among this age group.
This poll spells long term doom for the Republican party. The young people of today have completely rejected the politics of the right wing. And as the older people who buy into their ludicrous […]

The latest DailyKos polling makes it more clear than ever that the Republicans have become a regional party with no significant support outside of the south.
“According to this tracker, the GOP has a net favorability of +14 in the South. In the rest of the nation, their “next-best” region is the West, where the […]

Media Matters makes the point that the mainstream media has been skewing the debate on health care reform by insinuating that the “public option” that President Obama supports is not popular with Americans and that the “public option” is the “liberal position” (it’s not, it is a compromise, the true liberal position is “single payer.”)
The […]

A new poll from Fox News has the Republican party at record low favorable rating at just 36% (with 53% unfavorable) while President Obama has a 62% favorable rating in the poll. The President’s unfavorable rating is at just 33%.
In a direct comparison with the Democratic party, the Republican party lags considerably. The Democratic […]