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 4:15 PM, May 21, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENHillary Clinton's favorability with the American people remains near an all-time high, according to Gallup. Sixty-six percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Secretary of State, while only 23 percent view Clinton unfavorably, tied for a record low.
So here's yet more cause for Vice President Joe Biden to be getting ever more nervous about his future on the ticket with Barack Obama. This new poll might help confirm for the president the wisdom of the advice offered by the boss in his editorial this week, where he notes that Biden does nothing to help the Obama campaign and often serves as a source of embarrassment for the administration:
Who should replace Biden? Everyone knows the answer. Hillary Clinton received nearly 18 million votes in the race for the 2008 Democratic nomination. Her rating in a Washington Post survey a couple of weeks ago was 65 percent favorable, 27 percent unfavorable. Biden hurts Obama. She would help him.
What’s more, she’d help with precisely the undecided voters Obama needs in November. Many of them are white, working- and middle-class Americans who supported her in the 2008 primaries. They overcame their disappointment at Clinton’s defeat to vote for Obama that November. But many became disillusioned and voted Republican in 2010, producing that year’s GOP landslide. Barack Obama needs to win back as many of them as possible in 2012. They voted for Hillary Clinton once. Surely they’d be more likely to return to Obama if given the opportunity to vote for her again as part of the ticket.
Read the whole thing here.
2:14 PM, Feb 16, 2012 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSONRick Santorum, who trailed Mitt Romney by 20 points eight days ago, has now taken the lead in Gallup’s national polling. In the Gallup poll released on February 8, Romney led Santorum by the tally of 37 to 17 percent. In the current Gallup poll, Santorum has moved into the lead — 32 to 31 percent.
Read more... 2:30 PM, Feb 9, 2012 • By WILLIAM KRISTOLYesterday I pointed out that "February 7 could prove to have been Super Tuesday if it turns out to be a key inflection point in the campaign." Two indications, I wrote, of such an inflection point would be "if Santorum now passes Newt Gingrich in national Republican surveys" and if he "continues to do better than Gingrich (and than Romney?) in poll match-ups against President Obama."
Read more... 5:09 PM, Jan 23, 2012 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSONLast Monday, Gallup’s national 5-day polling (taken from January 11-15) showed Mitt Romney leading his nearest competitors in the Republican presidential field (Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum) by a colossal 23 percentage points — 37 to 14 percent.
Read more... 1:57 PM, Jan 20, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERGallup chief Frank Newport said that Mitt Romney's support is "collapsing" and that everything is within the realm of possibilities in this Republican primary. “We have seen more movement, more roller coaster kind of effect this year than any other Republican primary in our history of tracking,” Newport said, according to TPM. “I think anything is possible. It wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility if Romney recovers. We’ll wait and see.”
Read more... 7:49 PM, Jan 16, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENWith the first two presidential nominating contests under his belt, Mitt Romney is surging nationally among registered Republicans.
Read more... 1:15 PM, Dec 14, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAYAccording to the latest Gallup poll, support for Newt Gingrich has dropped from 37 percent to 31 percent in just the course of a week. He still maintains a comfortable lead over Romney, whose support has held steady at 22 percent in Gallup's poll. However, the rapid drop suggests that maybe some of the attacks on Gingrich have taken their toll.
Read more... 4:17 PM, Dec 5, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARRENA new poll from Gallup today finds that a majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents find Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney "acceptable" nominees for the GOP. For Gingrich, 62 percent of those polled said the former House speaker was an acceptable Republican nominee, while 54 percent said the same for Romney. The remaining six Republicans, including former candidate Herman Cain, were deemed "not acceptable" candidates for the party's nomination.
Read more... 9:17 AM, Oct 21, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARRENAccording to Gallup, Barack Obama's quarterly approval hit an all-time low in the president's eleventh quarter in office at 41 percent.
Read more... Perry sinks while Cain surges.10:01 AM, Oct 11, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARRENTwo new polls of Republicans and those who lean Republican show a sizable number of likely voters remain undecided on the 2012 presidential race.
Read more... 1:00 PM, Sep 21, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAYEarlier this morning, I noted that for the first time more Americans had an unfavorable view of the President than a favorable one. Well, here's some more bad news from the latest Gallup poll that's likely to reverberate around the White House:
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