Support for Deepwater Drilling Up to 59%
Support for deepwater oil drilling has reached its highest level since the devastating Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico one year ago.
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April 19, 2011
April 19, 2011
61% Oppose U.S. Citizenship for Children Born to Illegal Immigrants
Several Republican senators are seeking to amend the law that grants full U.S. citizenship to children born to illegal immigrants in this country, and voters strongly support such an effort.
April 19, 2011
SUCCEEDING IN YOUR BUSINESS: Five Ways You Know You're Dealing With a Problem Client By Cliff Ennico
"I've been running a small service business for a while now, and it seems like I have problems with every client these days. Most don't pay on time -- I have to remind them every month to pay their invoices, and a couple have stopped returning my phone calls altogether.
April 19, 2011
The War on Users of Cold, Allergy Drugs By Debra J. Saunders
You know the war on drugs has gone too far when politicians keep ratcheting up restrictions on cold and allergy medications in order to prevent kitchen drug labs from buying pills and converting them into methamphetamine.
April 19, 2011
Just 50% Believe Their Home is Worth More Than Mortgage
Just one-out-of-two Americans now say their home is worth more than what they still owe on their mortgage.
April 19, 2011
America Is Not a Third World Country ... Yet By Froma Harrop
Let's start with the assumption that America is not a Third World country. In poor countries, many people never see doctors. Only the elite go to college. Rattletrap trains take two hours to go 70 miles.
April 18, 2011
Generic Congressional Ballot: Republicans 42%, Democrats 39%
Republicans hold a three-point lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot for the week ending April 17, 2011. That ties the narrowest gap between the two parties first reached in early October.
April 18, 2011
17% Haven’t Filed Their Income Taxes Yet
Today is Tax Day, and although the deadline was pushed back three days, 17% of Americans still have not filed their income taxes.
April 18, 2011
Most Voters Like A Presidential Candidate With Both Public and Private Experience
Voters strongly prefer a presidential candidate with both government and private sector experience. They also like a candidate who thinks like they do over one who can more surely win.
April 18, 2011
52% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law
A majority of voters continues to favor repeal of the national health care law, but the number who Strongly Favor it has fallen to a new low. So has the number of voters who see the law as bad for the country.
April 18, 2011
President Whatever Finds Things Not Going His Way By Michael Barone
Barack Obama is a politician who likes to follow through on long-term strategies and avoid making course corrections. That's how he believes he won in 2008, and since then he's shown that he's not much into details.
April 18, 2011
Obama 49%, Trump 34%
President Obama leads Donald Trump by 15 percentage points in a hypothetical 2012 match-up, but the president is unable to top the 50% level of support even against an opponent some are deriding as a joke.
April 17, 2011
Only 39% Now Expect Improved Home Values in Five Years
Both short and long-term confidence in the U.S. housing market continue to fall, with homeowners now expressing the highest level of pessimism in two years.
April 17, 2011
Department of Obstruction of Justice By Debra J. Saunders
President Obama well may have begun another undeclared war -- this time on states that try to enforce their own death penalty laws -- on the dubious grounds that the Food and Drug Administration has not approved drugs intended to kill convicted killers.
April 16, 2011
President Obama’s Cabinet: How Do They Rate?
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates are the most popular and best-known members of President Obama's Cabinet. Janet Napolitano, the Homeland Security secretary, is nearly as well-known but not nearly as well-liked.
April 16, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending April 16, 2011
Talk, talk, talk. That’s apparently all voters expect out of Washington, DC, because they don’t anticipate serious budget solutions any time soon.
April 16, 2011
Days of Disappointment By Susan Estrich
It's that time of year again, the time of year when high school seniors who have done everything right their whole lives discover that it wasn't good enough to get them into the colleges they dreamed of attending. Ditto for college seniors applying to graduate school.
April 16, 2011
Democrats Can Win the Budget Debate By Joe Conason
Having hesitated to fully enter the fiscal fray, President Obama has at last delivered a plausible, principled response to the budgetary flim-flams of the far right. But one speech, even a very good speech, won't fulfill his obligation in this fateful argument.
April 15, 2011
Economy Remains Voters' Number One Issue
Unemployment claims jumped last week, signaling continued weakness in the nation's economy, so it's no surprise that voters continue to rate the economy as the most important issue they vote on.
April 15, 2011
42% Favor More U.S. Nuclear Power Plants
Most voters remain concerned about the safety of nuclear power plants in this country, but support for building new plants in America appears to have rebounded slightly even as the nuclear crisis in Japan continues.
