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| Federal Government's Favorable Ratings Slump (Pew People & the Press) Posted: Wed, 14 May 2008 10:00:00 EST Public Continues to Oppose Banning Handgun Sales (Pew People & the Press) Posted: Wed, 14 May 2008 10:00:00 EST Public Says Press Should Not Declare Obama the Winner (Pew People & the Press) Posted: Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 EST Opinion of Oprah More Politicized, Goreŭs Ratings Improve (Pew People & the Press) Posted: Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 EST Declining Standard of Living Worries Two-Thirds of Americans (ABC News: The Polling Unit) More than six in 10 report financial hardship caused by higher gas prices. Posted: Tue, 13 May 2008 23:57:53 -0400 
McCain vs. Obama on Personal Attributes (Washington Post: Behind the Numbers) Six months before the general election, public perceptions of the relative strengths and weaknesses of presumptive Republican nominee John McCain and Democratic front-runner Barack Obama are relatively static, though recent shifts on leadership, empathy and personal ethics hint at the battles to come. The two months of campaigning in the time since we last checked in on perceptions of these two candidates have done little to change minds. In comparing McCain and Obama on eight key candidate attributes in the new Washington Post-ABC News poll, McCain continues to be seen as the more experienced candidate and the one with better knowledge of world affairs, while Obama is broadly seen as the one who would do more to affect change, with the better personality for the job and with a clearer vision for the future. But the two candidates have become more evenly matched on the question of who is the Posted: Wed, 14 May 2008 17:21:24 -0400 Hillary supporters hanging in there (USA Today: Gallup Guru) The media/pundit/elite conventional wisdom is that Barack Obama will be the Democratic presidential nominee. Hillary Clintons rank and file supporters across the country do not appear to have bought into that story line. Although Obama now has a 6-point lead... Obama and Working-Class Whites (ABC News: The Numbers) The anticipated outcome of todays contest in West Virginia is prompting a fresh review of Barack Obamas difficulties winning support from working-class white voters in this years Democratic primaries. One question: The extent to which it does or doesnt predict... Follow the Lines (ABC News: The Numbers) This morning our Political Unit broke news when Barack Obama for the first time inched into the lead in its tally of Democratic super delegates. That inspired the attached charts showing Obama and Hillary Clintons accumulation of pledged delegates,... Karl Rove's review of Gallup job approval data: Partially right and partially wrong (USA Today: Gallup Guru) Karl Rove, the strategist who was a key force behind George W. Bush's successful campaigns for governor of Texas and president of the United States, and who having retired from the White House is now a pundit and columnist, submitted... |
AAPOR 2008: Bob Groves and Survey Non-Response (Pollster.com) Posted: Thu, 15 May 2008 22:31:22 -0500 AAPOR 2008: Stephen Blumberg/NCHS Cell Phone Report (Pollster.com) Posted: Thu, 15 May 2008 22:25:12 -0500 AAPOR: Frank Newport (Pollster.com) Posted: Thu, 15 May 2008 18:47:21 -0500 POLL: Rasmussen in Iowa, Kansas, Arkansas (Pollster.com) Posted: Thu, 15 May 2008 17:37:44 -0500 More On Models (Pollster.com) Posted: Thu, 15 May 2008 15:24:41 -0500 
KTK pre-poll survey politically motivated: Cong (Express India) Congress dubs a recent pre-poll survey on the phase II of Karnataka Assembly elections as 'politically motivated'. Posted: Wed, 14 May 2008 13:44:34 GMT Three-quarters of women want 24-week limit on abortions reduced, says survey (Evening Standard) Three-quarters of women want to see the 24-week limit on abortions reduced, according to a poll out yesterday. The survey, conducted on behalf of the Christian Institute, found that 58 per cent of people thought the upper limit for abortion should be reduced rising to 73 per cent among women. Posted: Fri, 16 May 2008 08:13:03 GMT Americans want choice to end life: poll (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Most Americans believe the choice to end one's life is a personal decision and that physician-assisted death should be legal, according to a new survey. Posted: Thu, 15 May 2008 20:31:52 GMT Bio-Synergy Poll Reveals British Women Are Happy With Their Weight, UK (Medical News Today) Bio-Synergy, market leaders in sports nutrition and functional waters unveils startling survey results which demonstrate that British women are confident in how they look. Posted: Fri, 16 May 2008 09:10:22 GMT No sales, income tax, or more property taxes, please (Portsmouth Herald) DURHAM Don't raise our property taxes or establish an income or sales tax. Posted: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:11:59 GMT Poll shows strong support for Stanislaus Union bond (Modesto Bee) A telephone survey of 400 likely voters shows strong support for a Stanislaus Union School District bond to fund renovation at the district's seven schools, according to data presented at the district's board of trustees meeting Thursday. Posted: Fri, 16 May 2008 07:46:40 GMT |
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