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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2012 56 Comments

PPP polling shows Santorum with a huge surge in support since he won the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses and non-binding Missouri primary, to the point that he leads nationally with 38 percent, to 23% for Romney, 17% for Newt, and 13% for Ron Paul. Although a surge of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2012 34 Comments

Via Political Wire, the most recent polls: A Quinnipiac poll in Florida shows Mitt Romney has a 14 point lead over Newt Gingrich, 43% to 29%, with Ron Paul and Rick Santorum both at 11%. Just 7% are undecided, but 24% say they might change their...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2012 50 Comments

In keeping with the video of the day, the polling isn't exactly clear on what is happening here. On the one hand, numerous polls show Romney moving to a mid-to-high single digit lead in Florida, but Gallup and most other national polls show no upward movement for Romney...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2012 63 Comments

This is the first polling evidence of Newt's surge which has let Romney to relaunch Operation Zany and to haul out Susan Molinari and others to attack Newt. From Rasmussen this morning: The race for the Republican presidential nomination is now nearly even with Mitt Romney still on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 26, 2011 5 Comments

The New York Times is shocked, just shocked to find that a New Poll Finds Deep Distrust of Government: With Election Day just over a year away, a deep sense of economic anxiety and doubt about the future hangs over the nation, according to the latest...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 21, 2011 9 Comments

From Gallup, which registers Obama's lowest approval rating ever: President Barack Obama's 11th quarter in office was the worst of his administration, based on his quarterly average job approval ratings. His 41% approval average is down six percentage points from his 10th quarter in office, and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 26, 2011 5 Comments

Aternative blog post title:  Why Jews still will vote for Obama, regardless. I know, you have a dream, that one day American Jews will judge political candidates by the content of their character not the "D" or "R" next to their names.  I told you time...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 25, 2011 59 Comments

Everyone else is doing it, why not here? Run two ways, based on currently declared candidates, and a second time with Palin and Christie in the race.  Please vote twice, it's legal! Polls close 9 a.m. Eastern on Monday. If your primary were held today, who would you...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2011 11 Comments

I've discussed several times  Public Policy Polling, a Democratic polling firm which heavily spins poll results. PPP has a split personality; some of its polls are straight up and in actual elections it seems to do as well as many other polling organizations.   But PPP also engages in messaging...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2011 7 Comments

How pathetic is this. The Daily Caller is reporting as news that Public Policy Polling, a Democratic pollster which has a nasty habit of doing polling meant to generate anti-Republican headlines, and using skewed sampling, is dropping Tim Pawlenty from some of its polling questions. I don't really care...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2011 31 Comments

As you know, I'm highly skeptical of polls showing Jews turning against Obama in substantial numbers.  So, in what may be a first, I'll have to agree with the Plum Line guys, Greg Sargent and Adam Serwer, about Jews and Obama. Jews are not going to vote against...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 24 Comments

Obama is holding another press conference today, at 11 a.m. , with regard to the debt talks.  The last press conference was an unmitigated disaster for him, leading one MSNBC talking head to drop the "D" bomb. My take is that we will see a different...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2011 12 Comments

Gallup is out with a poll taken yesterday on the issue of who deserves credit for finding and killing Osama bin Laden.The results are very telling.  Understandably, the U.S. military gets the most credit (89% Great Deal, 9% Moderate Amount), followed by the CIA (62/26).Obama has been...

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