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Americans' support for nuclear power skidded in polling after the Three Mile Island accident 30 years ago and slipped more after the Chernobyl disaster seven years later. In more recent years, nuclear power has regained popularity, but the level of support depends greatly on survey question wording.
In-person exit polling shows that more and more voters only have cell phones and increasingly they vote differently from those who still have landlines at home.
Whether whites supported Barack Obama or not, they don't seem to have lied to pollsters about it.
, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, shattered more than 200 years of history Tuesday night by winning election as the first African-American president of the United States.
Preliminary results from a national Associated Press exit poll of voters in Tuesday's elections:
THE POLL: Indianapolis Star/WTHR-TV, presidential race in Indiana (11 electoral votes).
NEW YORK - With Barack Obama ahead of John McCain in recent national polls, some observers wonder if he could meet the same fate as Al Gore in 2000, when he won the popular vote but lost the presidency to George W. Bush.
THE POLL: Virginia Commonwealth University, presidential race in Virginia among likely voters (13 electoral votes).
Barack Obama is galloping away with the presidential race. Or maybe he has a modest lead. Or maybe he and John McCain are neck and neck.
If the world beyond America's shores had a say, it seems clear that Barack Obama would win the presidential election by something approaching a landslide.
THE POLL: A CBS News-New York Times national poll on the presidential race.
A pair of one-night polls gave Barack Obama a clear edge over John McCain in their first presidential debate.
People with only cell phones may differ enough from those with landline telephones that excluding the growing population of cell-only users from public opinion polls may slightly skew the results, a study has concluded.
Jewish voters in Florida and at least one other state are being targeted by a telephone survey tying Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to Palestinian causes, an advocacy group alleged Monday.
For all the passion this year's presidential campaign has stirred, more than four in 10 voters are still up for grabs.
Barack Obama and John McCain start their showdown for the White House lacking broad public faith that either can right a struggling economy and needing to win back party stalwarts who have deserted them, polls of primary voters show. The crucial question: Whose weaknesses will cost him the election?
Exit polls show that Dominican President Leonel Fernandez could secure a first-round electoral victory.
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama has gained ground on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania by drawing more support from men and younger voters, according to presidential polls in the state.
In February 2001, President Bush delivered an economic address to a joint session of Congress; in subsequent years he presented his annual State of the Union address. A look at his approval rating in the Gallup Poll around the time of each speech.
President Bush delivered an economic address to a joint session of Congress in February 2001 and in subsequent years presented his annual State of the Union address. A look at his standing in the Gallup Poll at about the time of each speech.
WASHINGTON - After the failure of opinion polls in New Hampshire to anticipate Sen. Hillary Clinton’s triumph, people are taking a second look at why we pay so much attention to polls.
Was it an eleventh-hour tide of sympathetic women, people reluctant to say they weren't backing a black candidate or problems with the polls themselves? For whatever reason, late public opinion surveys showed Barack Obama cruising to a triumph in the New Hampshire Democratic primary.
THE RACE: The presidential race for Democrats, Republicans in Iowa.
Gallup Poll: Congressional Democrats bounce backCongressional Democrats seem to be regaining a little lost ground as they look to next year's midterm elections. In a new Gallup Poll, taken Friday through Sunday, Americans were inclined to support the Democratic congressional candidate over a Republican one, 48%-45%.
Rasmussen (a reputable pollster) reported that Obama's "job approval" rating has fallen to its lowest level: 44% (on its way to President Bush levels).
Confronted with clear falsehood, Fox News scraps its "zero tolerance" policySo Media Matters sent an open letter to Fox News asking how the network would deal with the falsehood in light of its new policy of "zero tolerance for on-screen errors."
Shocker polls: That Sarah Palin-Barack Obama gap melts to 1 point | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles TimesObama's new Gallup Poll job approval number is 47%. Last month it was 53%.
Obama approval rating below 50 percent - CNN.comWashington (CNN) -- Support for President Obama has dropped below 50 percent for the first time in a CNN poll despite high marks for his recently announced Afghanistan policy. Forty-eight percent of Americans questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp.
According to the Mainstream Media, Obama's poll numbers are hitting all time lows and they have done so in record time. This "fact" has been used by some to construct a narrative that Obama is losing "independents" because he has made the mistake of governing from the Left.
The GOP leads the Dems in 10 different Senate races right now.I still think the chances of Republicans regaining the Senate next year are pretty much zero but I realized today that there have now been polls showing them in the lead for ten different seats they don't currently hold, which would be good enough for a tie if they won all of the …
Aren't the politicians watching the polls?The politicians seem to have finally chosen a topic that they will ignore the polls on. Unfortunately it is this healthcare bill the Obama administration is trying to cram through.
I see that three slots are for the same poll. How come?
In 1620 Pilgrims left England because they wanted Independence from the Church of England. They came to America. Could Christians start leaving America for Independence? Independence from persecution and scorn?
Republicans Maintain Lead in "Generic Ballot" I keep reporting this because it is becoming astounding: Republican candidates maintain a six-point advantage over Democrats in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.
Obama approval dips below 50%Obama down to a 49 percent approval rating in the respected Gallup daily tracking poll out Friday. Gallup said Obama's approval rating had been holding in the low 50s since September but hasn't dropped below 50 percent until now.
President Obama's job approval numbers will dip below 50% for the first time today in Gallup's daily tracking poll, according to a Gallup official. The slide is worrying for the White House, but it's probably not yet panic time. Ronald Reagan's approval numbers dropped well below 40% during the depths of his first term recession.
The AP has a new poll out on health care "reform" being reported all over the mainstream media.
"I can't define pornography, but I know it when I see it." (SC Justice Potter Stewart)
Paul leads Grayson in new U.S. Senate race poll Bowling Green eye surgeon Rand Paul has a slight lead over Secretary of State Trey Grayson in their race to win next May's Republican primary election for the U.S. Senate, according to a new poll.
Mayoral Candidates Cast Their Ballots - NYTimes.comNew York City voters went to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to grant Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg a third term or instead side with his Democratic opponent, Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr.
Gawker Endorsement: Don't Vote for BloombergTomorrow is Election Day! You will probably not vote, because there are no contested races for anything important in 90% of the nation. But if you are a New Yorker, we have one message: don't vote for Michael Bloomberg.
Toward a General Theory of Democratic Disgruntlement, Part 2Pollster Celinda Lake spoke to first, and perhaps most crucial point in her email reply to me. "It's easier to unify Republicans because mostly they want to stop things.
Joe Biden popularity fades as role expandsHis predicament is stumping pollsters and has experts wondering what, if anything, the erosion in his numbers reveals about the public's feelings toward Biden and his expanding role or if it is simply exaggerated by Obama's stratospheric popularity and the dismal state of the …
There was a time when I thought that dressing up pets was weird. Not to mention annoying for the pets. Then I became "mom" to several fur persons – three dogs and a cat, to be specific – who loved dressing up.
Is America really becoming more conservative?If I were a conservative, I would probably tout the new Gallup study showing that conservatives now outnumber moderates, as Bill Kristol did in his column on Tuesday.
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