Outside the Beltway

A new national poll suggests that moves to restrict the collective bargaining rights of public sector unions are not popular with the public at large:

A new poll finds that Republican policies on immigration are chasing Latino voters straight into the arms of the Democratic Party.

Polls matching President Obama against potential Republican contenders are entertaining but not informative.

President Obama’s approval numbers have dropped 9 points since the Egypt crisis broke out.

The initial instant reaction to the President’s speech last night was largely positive, but does it really matter?

The night before the State Of The Union Address, Barack Obama is in a far better position than many people thought he’d be after November’s election results.

Sarah Palin’s unfavorability ratings continue to climb. And there’s very little room for her recovery.

The first poll assessing the political impact of last week’s events is out, and it has good news for President Obama, and bad news for Sarah Palin.

The American public still has a totally unrealistic view of what it will take to get the Federal Government’s fiscal house in order.

The Republicans are increasingly the party of white America. That’s short term good but long term bad for the GOP.

President Obama and Hillary Clinton top Gallup’s lists of Most Admired Americans.

New polling shows that Mitt Romney is well behind the Fox News candidates for 2012.

There’s plenty of good news for Barack Obama in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

Americans’ assessment of Congress has hit a new low, with 13% saying they approve of the way Congress is handling its job.

A new poll shows that the American public is discontented, nervous about the economy, not entirely sure they can trust the new GOP majority in Congress, and has no idea what it wants from Washington. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.

According to a new Gallup poll, President Obama is not only less popular than George W. Bush, but the only president from the last half century less popular is Dick Nixon.

Republican pollster Glen Bolger makes a bold promise: The GOP will retain House control in 2012 – Guaranteed.

A new poll about the proposals coming out of the Deficit Commission makes it clear that the American public needs to grow up.

Only 46 percent of Americans know that Republicans will have a majority only in the House when the new Congress convenes in January.

This is a strange disconnect between Sarah Palin’s popularity within the Republican Party and her popularity with the nation as a whole. One wonders if the GOP notices, or cares.

Rasmussen’s sample is biased because they’re polling on the cheap — using robocalls, which by law can’t dial cell phones, and otherwise cutting corners — rather than because of some agenda to propagandize for the GOP. The end result, however, is the same: Polls that can’t be trusted.

Rasmussen polls were biased toward Republicans by 3 to 4 points. Rigged results? Or screening error?

The 2010 electorate was whiter, older, and more conservative than that of 2008.

The growing number of cell-phone-only households gives Democrats hope that the polls are undercounting them.

Gallup’s final pre-election poll gives Republicans a 15 point advantage over Democrats, compared to only 5 points in 1994.

Newsweek’s latest poll shows a boom in support for President Obama and the Democrats. It’s the only poll showing that, however.

Lisa Murkowski, who lost the Republican primary, may be on the verge of winning re-election as a sore-loser write-in.

More bad news for Democrats as a new poll shows that voters are more likely to consider them extreme than Republicans.