Outside the Beltway

There’s not much movement in the President’s job approval numbers.

Americans are rallying around the President in the wake of the mission against bin Laden, but it’s likely to be short-lived.

The impact of the death of Osama bin Laden on the domestic politics is likely to be minimal at best.

There are signs that the Ryan Plan isn’t playing well with the public.

Contempt for Congress is an old American tradition. Unfortunately.

It is waaay too early to be putting much stock in polling for 2012 (either in terms of X v. Obama or GOP v. GOP).

President Obama is vulnerable, but he’s facing a GOP field that is underwhelming even for Republicans.

One of the Tea Party movement’s favorite Senators used the dreaded c-word.

We’re approaching the point where those job approval numbers start to matter, and President Obama’s are heading down again.

President Obama’s budget speech was light on specifics, but that’s because it was really the opening salvo of the 2012 campaign.

Two new polls show that the public supports the budget deal, but has no idea what to do to solve our long term problems.

The President’s winter polling bounce is gone, and he’s looking vulnerable again.

One week in to Operation Odyssey Down, public opinion is, to put it as nicely as possibly, ambivalent.

Quite improbably, Mike Huckabee seems to be positioned at the top of the GOP field right now. The only question is whether he really wants to run for President again.

The public, and Congress, are skeptical of the mission in Libya, and the reason for that is because the President has failed to tell us exactly why we’re there and what we’ll be doing.

Another survey shows that Americans don’t know much about their own history, but does it really matter?

It’s a Republican meme that President Obama has “apologized” for America repeatedly. The one problem with the meme is that there aren’t any facts to support it.

A new set of polls from Gallup show that President Obama is still looking good for re-election.

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:

In a new Gallup poll, Americans rank Ronald Reagan as America’s Greatest President.

President Obama isn’t unbeatable in 2012. but it’s clear even now that he’s going to be a far more formidable opponent than many Republicans seem to think.

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

It was, perhaps, inevitable that someone would attempt to draw a comparison between Saturday’s shootings in Arizona and the Oklahoma City bombing, but the two events really don’t have anything in common.

Honest pundits will tell you that it’s simply too early to make useful predictions about the 2012 elections.

A new Gallup poll reflects the declining role of religion in American public, and private, life.

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

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

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.

Some on the right are beginning to realize that Sarah Palin’s popularity may cause a serious problem for the GOP in 2012.