While the Republican national convention appears to have barely moved the polling in Mitt Romney’s direction, early signs indicate that President Obama received a modest but significant bounce from his convention. The Gallup daily tracking poll out today has Obama with a five point lead over Romney among registered voters.

Early indications are that the Republican National Convention was mostly a dud and did almost nothing to change the state of the Presidential Race. Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech draw a much smaller audience than in the past. According to Nielson rating about 33 million people watched the speech on TV, a 17 percent drop from [...]

By basically every criteria imaginable the American people just seem to think President Obama is a better person than Mitt Romney. Not only has polling found that Obama is significantly more likeable than Romney, but also people think Obama is more honest, caring and a stronger leader. From Gallup: Romney’s numbers on honesty and trustworthiness [...]

Mitt Romney’s personal favorability rating continues to slide farther down. According to the recent Washington Post/ABC News poll opinions about Romney have hit a new low, right before Romney tries to sell himself at the Republican National Convention. The poll found only 35 percent of American adults have a favorable impression of Romney, while 51 [...]

The race for President at the moment could not be closer. Three national polls in the last  24 hours or so find that only a single point separates President Obama and Mitt Romney. A new CBS News/NYT poll finds Obama with a one point lead, Obama 47 percent to Romney 46 percent. Both the Gallup [...]

This recent Gallup poll very clearly illustrates the basic dynamics of the 2012 Presidential race. President Obama’s strength is that people just don’t like Mitt Romney. They don’t think Romney is likeable, they don’t think he understands people, and they don’t think he is particularly trustworthy. On the question of who is more likeable Obama [...]

It is easy to understand why so many top Republicans are working to get Rep. Todd Akin to drop out of the Missouri Senate race. Not only could he cost them a seat and potentially control of the Senate, but his problem is already starting to metastasize to other Republican candidates. Normally the exact nuances [...]

When running against Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan asked the American people if they were better off than they were four years ago. The phrase perfectly summarized in the most basic terms how democracy often winds up working. When things are going well, you don’t break what is working, but when things are going bad, it [...]

The big opening for Mitt Romney remains the economy. It is the number one issue for voters and Obama’s numbers on it are pretty terrible. Even if polls continue to show a majority think George W. Bush is to blame for the economic downturn, that doesn’t change the fact that Obama appears to have failed [...]

Congress has rarely been very popular, but since the Republicans won control of the House in 2010, Congress’ job approval rating has fluctuated between being very low and reaching new historic lows. Now, according to Gallup, its job approval rating has again dropped and is tied with an all time low of just 10 percent [...]