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There’s very bad news for the Republican Party in a new Washington Post/ABC News poll: the GOP seems to have almost totally lost the confidence of the American public. Republicans in Washington can barely contain their glee at the turn of President Obama’s political fortunes in the first nine ...
Uh oh. 61% of Americans think Sarah Palin’s resignation as governor of Alaska was a bad move. (CNN) – A new national poll suggests that most Americans don’t think Sarah Palin’s decision to step down as Alaska governor was a smart political move. Sixty-one percent of people questioned in ...
Pew Research’s latest News Interest Index survey shows that a majority of Republicans would like to see more media coverage of the Nirth Certifikit theory. Probably because it’s making Republicans look so good.
Nirthers, birth certificate, Barack Obama, Conspiracy Theories, kooks, Pew Research, Poll, GOP
Public Policy Polling has released a new survey of Virginians (PDF), showing that Barack Obama’s approval rating is dropping — but also that Virginia Republicans are overwhelmingly in thrall to the Birther madness. A majority of Virginians who voted for McCain (36%) said they don’t believe Barack Obama was born ...
Nirthers, birth certificate, Barack Obama, Conspiracy Theories, kooks, GOP, Virginia, Poll
Uh oh. A new poll from a reputable firm with more evidence that Nirtherism is not just a fringe phenomenon in the GOP: Just 32% of Virginia Republicans Think Obama is a Citizen. Here’s an advance look at a new Public Policy Polling survey in Virginia completed over the ...
Virginia, GOP, kooks, Conspiracy Theories, Barack Obama, birth certificate, Nirthers, Poll
The latest Rasmussen poll shows 90% of voters expect Sonia Sotomayor to be confirmed. Following the first two days of confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, voters overwhelmingly expect her to be confirmed for the U.S. Supreme Court but remain divided as to whether she should be. Ninety percent ...
Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Confirmation, Congress, Poll
A couple of silly Internet polls, asking some Palinesque questions: [Poll] [Poll]
A new Gallup poll has some interesting results; this year the number of Americans who described the Democratic Party’s views as “too liberal” increased to a historic high mark (46%), putting it slightly ahead of the number who say the Republican Party is “too conservative” (43%). However, it’s not great ...
Gallup Poll, Poll, Democratic Party, Republican Party, opinion
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that the American public is starting to get a mite worried about Obama’s astronomical budget deficit: Poll: Public concerned about size of deficit. Buried at the bottom of the piece, though, is even worse news for the Republican Party — an all-time ...
It doesn’t mean much this far out from the 2012 election, but the latest CNN poll shows Mike Huckabee with a very slight (i.e., statistically insignificant) lead as the GOP’s presidential front runner. The survey suggests that 22 percent of Republicans would most likely support former Arkansas governor and ...
Social conservatives are up in arms about RNC chairman Michael Steele’s less than pure opposition to abortion, and calling for his job. Allahpundit puts up a poll: Is it time for Steele to go? I’m curious to see how LGF readers feel on the subject, so here’s our own poll: ...
The results of a new poll of the Muslim world are highly disturbing. The CFQ (Clenched Fist Quotient) seems to be increasing in many areas. Rusty at the Jawa Report breaks it all down: Poll of Muslim World Gives Few Reasons for Hope.
Islam, Militant Islam, Muslim World, Poll, World Public Opinion, Terrorism
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Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Fauxtography, Pallywood, CNN, Poll
A simple question related to future plans for Guantanamo detainees: [Poll]
Poll, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Gitmo, Prison, Al Qaeda, Barack Obama
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Poll, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Gitmo, Prison, Al Qaeda, Barack Obama
A silly Internet poll to test the temperature of the water: [Poll]
Since the mainstream media is running silly Internet poll after silly Internet poll, here’s our silly Internet poll: [Poll]
You’ve got to be kidding. The Daily Kos Kids are pushing a “tracking poll” — as if they have any credibility at all as an impartial source of information: Daily Kos: 9/16 Daily Kos R2K Tracking Poll: Obama 48, McCain 44. These are the same people who openly advocate lying ...
Every single person in the non-America world wants to see Barack Obama elected. OK, that’s a slight exaggeration. 22 countries in a BBC World Service poll would prefer Democratic nominee Barack Obama elected US president instead of his Republican rival John McCain. Obama is preferred by a four to ...
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, world opinion, Poll, 9/11, September 11
More bad news for the Obamatons: since last month, there’s been a 20-point shift towards McCain among white women. Change!
LGF, Election 2008, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, John McCain, Poll
More than half of the Palestinian population supports mass murder attacks against Israeli civilians: Palestinians’ backing for terror rises. The number of Palestinians who support attacks against Israelis continues to rise and more than half of them favor suicide bombings, according to a poll published this weekend. The survey ...
CBS and the New York Times stacking polls in favor of Democrats? Say it ain’t so.
With nearly 10,000 votes, the results from yesterday’s OS poll are a bit surprising; Windows XP had the largest percentage (58%), as expected, but LGF readers apparently prefer Mac OS X at a rate about 4 times that of the general population (21%). So here’s another poll, to find out ...
Because I’m curious, and to help with LGF design issues as we go forward into the new frontier, here’s a poll asking which computer operating system our readers use the most. I didn’t include all OSes, obviously; you won’t find CP/M or BeOS or Atari’s TOS on here, but there’s ...