Virginia Right!

I just got off the phone with a person calling from 804-446-4934 claiming to be conducting a survey about the Virginia Republican Convention. I agreed to answer the three questions on the survey. I am signed up to be a Delegate and assumed this was related to that fact. The first question was “Who do [...]

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Dr. Harry Wilson, Political Science Professor at Roanoke College released a poll today which is a second chance to gauge the Virginia Senate race between George Allen and Tim Kaine. The last poll showed George Allen leading Tim Kaine by 8 points.  And as a Conservative, the results of the poll were to my liking [...]

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The last poll that ABC News / Washington Post released was done September 7-9 2012. This poll had a “Skew Rate” of +9 in favor of the Democrats. (See this analysis.) The Cross Tabs, located here, show the percentages of Republicans, Democrats and Independents sampled at the very bottom of the poll just beneath thoes [...]

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Poll: Most want Supreme Court to overturn individual health care mandate By Leigh Ann Caldwell  CBS  June 7, 2012   CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.   A new CBS News/New York Times poll reveals that nearly seven in ten Americans [...]

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I rarely listen to Rush Limbaugh but I found myself in the car on business at Rush time and I was curious how he would handle the latest scandal.  (For the record, Rush needs to privately apologize to the law student and do so publicly too.  I suppose Rush had a deeper point to make [...]

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Roanoke College has released a new poll of Virginians that shows the presumptive Republican Candidate for US Senate George Allen increasing his lead over Democrat Tim Kaine 45% to 37%. As always, I look at the numbers behind the polls to see if they pass my “believability” test, or if the results are skewed and [...]

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Tim Montgomerie reported in ConservativeHome today that his survey showed that the Tory readers of his column, just over a third would cast a second preference vote for UKIP: A large plurality (44.4%) of respondents wouldn’t use their second preference. 34.5% would vote UKIP. 8.7% would vote Conservative (which suggests about one-in-ten Tory members are [...]

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Troubling news indeed for Democrats. In a poll out today, Rasmussen Reports says the Republicans hold a 49 to 40 lead over Democrats in the Generic Congressional Poll. Forty-nine percent (49%) of respondents say they would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate, while 40% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent. Even more [...]

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As the media begins to hype polls for the November elections, one thing stands out to anyone that compares the polls. There is a huge variance between the different polling outfits. For example, Real Clear Politics, a group that averages the polls and tries to use that average as a measure of how the public [...]

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In more good news for Tea Party followers and perhaps for Ron Paul Libertarians, Raul Labrador, the GOP nominee in the First Congressional District in Idaho is leading his Democrat opponent.  Idahoreporter.com is reporting that Labrador leads Walt Minnick by double digits although 30% are still undecided:  Idaho’s only local political polling agency, Greg Smith [...]

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A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll out today confirms once more that Americans disagree with key aspects of the Democrats’ agenda and instead prefer Republicans.

The poll found that respondents believe the government’s number-one priority should be “job creation and economic growth.” But they don’t believe the $862 billion stimulus is meeting that need or will meet it in the future. For the first time in this poll, more respondents, 42%, said the stimulus bill “will not” help the economy than say it has (18%) or it will (20%) help the economy, combined.

Residents of Buffalo, NY, where President Obama is going to have yet another rally to promote his economic plans, are apparently frustrated enough with the economy to greet the president with a billboard reading, “I need a freakin job.”

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How’s that hopey, changy summet working for you? Rasmussen says it worked out pretty well – for Republicans.

Obama’s approval index poll numbers hit -20 for the first time. The index is calculated by subtracting the percentage of respondents that strongly approve of the job Obama is doing (23%) from those that strongly disapprove (43%).

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Bloomberg reports:

Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) — U.S. investors overwhelmingly see President Barack Obama as anti-business and question his ability to manage a financial crisis, according to a Bloomberg survey.

The global quarterly poll of investors and analysts who are Bloomberg subscribers finds that 77 percent of U.S. respondents believe Obama is too anti-business and four-out-of-five are only somewhat confident or not confident of his ability to handle a financial emergency.

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Rasmussen reports yet another low water mark for President Obama shatters his previous record low (from yesterday).

The president’s approval index is -21. That number is the difference in the number of respondents saying they Strongly Approve of the president’s job, and those who Strongly Disapprove of Obama’s performance. And for the first time, Obama’s Strongly Disapprove rating has reached 46%. Add to that the 10% that simply disapprove and the Rasmussen poll shows a total disapproval of 56% – another record for Obama.

Only 25% strongly approve of Obama’s performance, 2% better than his all time low of 23% set last week. Those that simply approve of Obama’s job totaled 19% for a total approval of just 44% which matches his previous low mark also set last week.

So Obama has reached a new low in overall approval of -12% (44% approve and 56% disapprove).

These numbers are, perhaps, the strongest indication of the impact of the Health Care bills on the next elections. While the bills have not even passed and made their way through the Conference Committee, the voters are showing their displeasure at these bills

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Public Policy Polling released a poll last week that, among other things, showed Former Virginia Senator and Governor George Allen has a solid 50% approval rating. What’s more, the poll shows that 31% of respondents would definitely vote for him and 31% would consider voting for him. In the 2006 elections, Democrat Jim Webb defeated Senator George Allen by a very narrow margin. However, Webb’s failure to hold Town Hall meetings, and refusals to join in the discussion have left many with the feeling they made a mistake. Webb’s approval rating has dipped to 47%, but more telling, his disapproval is at 40%.

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A just released Rasmussen Poll taken shortly after the thesis story in the Washington Post shows a small gain over the last Rasmussen poll. This poll shows Republican candidate for Governor leading Democrat Creigh Deeds 51%-42%, slightly up over the last Rasmussen poll which showed McDonnell leading 49%-41%.

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It’s no secret that President Obama’s approval rating is sinking faster than MSNBC’s ratings. He has now reached a new milestone in negative approval. The Rasmussen Polls out today show the number of respondents that strongly disapprove of Obama is now 41%. Those that strongly approve is only 32%, giving an approval index of -9. Obama’s approval index has been negative since June 30, 2009.

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