Generic Congressional Ballot: Republicans 44%, Democrats 37%
Republicans hold a seven-point lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot for the week ending Sunday, June 26.
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June 27, 2011
June 27, 2011
41% See Higher Crime Over Past Year, 84% Predict Economy Will Cause More
More adults than ever report that crime in their community has increased over the past year, and most think the continuing bad economy will cause the crime rate to rise even higher.
June 27, 2011
73% Say Woman President Likely in Next 10 Years
Voters are more willing than ever to elect a woman president, and most think there’s a good chance a woman will win the White House in the next 10 years.
June 27, 2011
Like Chauncey Gardiner, Obama Is Profoundly Aloof By Michael Barone
Which past leader does Barack Obama most closely resemble? His admirers, not all of them liberals, used to compare him to Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.
June 27, 2011
55% Favor Health Care Repeal, Just 17% Say New Law Will Improve Quality of Care
Most voters still want to repeal the national health care law, and confidence that the law will improve the quality of health care has fallen to a new low.
June 27, 2011
65% Say Current Taxes Not Enough to Fund Medicare, Social Security Promises
Most voters consider it essential for taxes to fund all promised Social Security and Medicare benefits and understand that the current level of taxation is not enough to keep those promises. But they're not overly sure they need to pay more taxes to keep those programs going.
June 26, 2011
The Ruinous Rant of John McCain By Joe Conason
The decline of the Grand Old Party into an angry mob is gaining momentum, with crackpot rage displacing common sense on every major issue from public finance to marriage rights.
June 26, 2011
48% Say Al Qaeda Weaker Now Than Before 9/11
Nearly one-half (48%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the al Qaeda terrorist organization is weaker today than it was before the September 11, 2001 attacks on America.
June 25, 2011
Did the IEA Just Deliver a QE3 Quick Fix to Save Obama's Skin? By Lawrence Kudlow
Did the International Energy Agency (IEA) just deliver the oil equivalent of Quantitative Easing 3?
June 25, 2011
46% Say Obama Doing Poor Job on the Economy
Nearly half of U.S. voters give President Obama poor marks for his handling of the economy, but he continues to earn higher respect for his performance in the area of national security.
June 25, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending June 25, 2011
Americans appear more pessimistic about the economy than they have been in months and also express little confidence that their elected leaders will do anything about it.
June 24, 2011
29% Say Legal System Puts Individual Rights Over National Security
Voters appear less concerned these days with protecting individual rights when it comes to national security and public safety.
June 24, 2011
35% Say Supreme Court Doing Good or Excellent Job, 18% Say Poor
After falling to a four-year low just over two months ago, ratings for the job the U.S. Supreme Court is doing have returned to earlier levels.
June 24, 2011
51% Want All U.S. Troops Out of Afghanistan Within A Year
President Obama this week announced that the United States will withdraw 10,000 troops from Afghanistan this year and will bring another 23,000 home by the end of next summer. But most voters don't think the president has gone far enough.
June 24, 2011
The Comeback Kids: Senate Second Acts By Isaac Wood
Bill Clinton is far from the only "comeback kid" in American politics. As we noted last week, many presidents have experienced election losses before they reached the promised land of the White House. A similar story can be told in the U.S. Senate, with 31* senators leaving the chamber only to return at a later date, since the mandate of popular election was passed with the Seventeenth Amendment (a full list is available here).
June 24, 2011
There He Goes Again By Susan Estrich
There he goes again, fulfilling another promise. Imagine that. When he announced the surge in Afghanistan, he said it was temporary. Democrats, especially liberals, screamed bloody murder. How dare he do what he said he would do during the campaign: focus on Afghanistan, on the threat posed by al-Qaida, on capturing Osama bin Laden, dead or alive?
June 24, 2011
One-in-Three Voters View Social Security, Medicare Unfavorably
Medicare and Social Security are big helps to most retired Americans, but one-third of voters don’t care much for either of the long-standing government programs.
June 24, 2011
Feds Crack Down on Campus Flirting and Sex Jokes By Michael Barone
When I was growing up, it was widely believed that colleges and universities were the part of our society with the widest scope for free expression and free speech. In the conformist America of the 1950s, the thinking ran, few people dared to say anything that went beyond a broad consensus. But on campus, anyone could say anything he liked.
June 23, 2011
49% Blame Team Owners In NFL Labor Dispute
Most football fans don’t think the 2011 National Football League season will start on time, if at all, and half place the blame on the league’s team owners.
June 23, 2011
Just 18% Think Graphic Warning Labels Will Reduce Smoking
The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now requiring tobacco companies to attach gruesome warning labels to cigarette packs, but few Americans believe the labels will actually cut the number of smokers.
