For all that’s happened lately, President Barack Obama has something going for him that he hasn’t seen in three years: 56 percent public approval for the job he’s performing. The Gallup tracking of the president’s job approval comes in at...
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President Barack Obama attends a memorial service for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 16, 2012.
Obama’s Approval at 56 Percent: Three-Year High, Post-Newtown
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A shopper on Fifth Avenue in New York.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 71
That’s the percentage of Americans with at least a college degree who identify themselves as “upper-middle class” or “middle class,” according to a USA Today/Gallup poll. The 71 percent figure is the smallest that Gallup has measured for that subset...
Read more »Obama’s 14-Point Approval Margin: Political Capital for the Fiscal Cliff
The 2012 election campaign is history. The 2012 fiscal cliff debate is in full swing. President Barack Obama won more than 50 percent of the popular vote on Nov. 6 — and a convincing 332-206 electoral-vote margin — for a...
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Voters cast their ballots on November 6, 2012. Photograph by Tom Pennington/Getty Images
Pollsters 2012: Winners and Losers
Nate Silver, as we’ve all reported, got it right. The statistical brain behind the New York Times’s “Five Thirty Eight” blog predicted that President Barack Obama would draw 50.8 percent of the popular vote on Nov. 6 — the...
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Early voters wait in line to vote in the presidential election on the first day of early voting at a polling station setup at the City of Miami City Hall on Oct. 27, 2012 in Florida.
Gallup Vote-Tracking Sandy-Stalled: Early Voting Leaned Republican
For a second day now, the seven-day rolling average of the Gallup Poll will be interrupted by what is now a post-tropical cyclone bound for western New York State after leaving a trail of flooding and wreckage in New Jersey...
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A view of a flooded plaza along Water Street after Hurricane Sandy left most of lower Manhattan without power on Oct. 30, 2012.
Gallup Suspends Tracking for Sandy
For month after month, through bad economic news and good economic news, through debate after debate, Gallup has been tracking public opinion of President Barack Obama and then his Republican rival for the White House, Mitt Romney. That stops tonight,...
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Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney holds a rally at Defiance High School, in Defiance, Ohio, on Oct. 25, 2012.
Obama, Romney Contact 4 in 10 Voters in Swing States — `Pivotal’
The gap between Republican Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama has widened in one poll — Romney up 5 percentage points in the Gallup daily tracking surveys — and narrowed in another poll — Romney up 1 point in the...
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Delegates cheer during the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Tampa, Florida, on Aug. 28, 2012.
Republicans: More Now Than 2008 — Gallup’s Portrait of 2012 Electorate
The voting public this year looks pretty much like the voting public of 2008 — except for one significant difference: It’s more Republican. That’s the conclusion of Gallup’s analysis of the daily tracking of public opinion it has run since...
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President Barack Obama, right, and Mitt Romney participate at the third and final presidential debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, on Oct. 22, 2012.
Obama Won 2, Romney 1 in Debates — Gallup Summary of the Series
Majorities of Americans who watched the three televised debates between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney say the incumbent won two of the three meetings, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll out today. Neither victory, however, was as...
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Supporters cheer as President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally on October 11, 2012 at the University of Miami, in Coral Gables, Florida.
Women’s Issues Work for Obama
There’s a reason the Obama campaign has been running, for some time, TV ads portraying Republican Mitt Romney as a threat to women on issues such as birth control and abortion. They are looking at the same numbers Frank Newport,...
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