Just in case the incredible political success Republicans experienced in 2010 after they were able to frame Democrats’ health care law as cutting Medicare didn’t make the point abundantly clear, a new Gallup poll reminds us that Americans really want their Medicare left alone. From Gallup: It isn’t just a majority of Democrats and independents [...]

In Pew’s first poll on Libya taken after President Obama’s primetime speech to the American public they found little overall change in support for the conflict but massive partisan movement: Over just the past week, Republican opposition to the air strikes has grown substantially – 41% now say it was the wrong decision, up from [...]

Mike Huckabee leads among the 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls, but his share of the vote is only 19 percent, according to a new comprehensive Gallup poll of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents. From Gallup: Follow up questions found that if just Huckabee or Huckabee and Sarah Palin decided not to run, Mitt Romney would lead the [...]

Buried in the law to reform welfare programs, House Republicans have added a provision to make it more difficult for union members to strike. From ThinkProgress: Much of the bill is based upon verifying that those who receive food stamps benefits are meeting the federal requirements for doing so. However, one section buried deep within [...]

CBS News has released a new poll and, not surprisingly, with official unemployment around nine percent, it found that an overwhelming 51 percent of Americans said jobs/economy is the most important problem facing the country. By comparison, the national debt comes in second with a mere seven percent of Americans saying it is the most [...]

Over at Slate, David Weigel found something interesting in the polling about President Obama’s handling of Libya: Sixty-three percent of Republicans disapprove of Obama’s handling of Libya, to 27 percent who approve. Seventy-six percent of Tea Party “supporters” disapprove of Obama’s handling of it. But 73 percent of Tea Partiers and 78 percent of Republicans [...]

There is some very good news today for President Obama from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We saw some significant job growth in February, and official unemployment is below nine percent for the first time in months. Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 192,000 in February, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 8.9 percent, [...]

Roughly a quarter of Americans actually think the new health care law has already been repealed, according to the latest poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation: In the wake of the health reform repeal vote in the U.S. House and the ongoing legal challenges over the individual mandate, nearly half the country either believes that [...]

John Thune (R-SD) has been rather publicly examining a potential 2012 presidential run for a while, but today, the Republican Senator announced he will not seek the nomination. Thune was viewed as the preferred choice among several party insiders and therefore a “legitimate candidate,” despite the fact that early polling had him trailing most other [...]

It was only three months ago that the Republican Party saw one of its largest political gains ever, yet already the electorate has swung back to supporting Democrats. From Tom Jensen at PPP: Beyond Boehner’s numbers the most amazing thing on our poll this week is that not only are Democrats back ahead on the [...]