The Fix Archive: Parsing the Polls
The Most Important Number in Politics Today
72 percent. That's the number of people in the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll who say that President Barack Obama inherited the "current economic conditions" gripping the country as compared to just 14 percent who said the situation was the result mostly of his policies.
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Chris Cillizza
| June 18, 2009; 2:06 PM ET |
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Gallup Poll: Republican Shrinkage Widespread
A new Gallup analysis shows that the precipitous decline in the number of people who identify themselves as Republican is widespread across nearly every demographic group -- a development that suggests that there is no simple solution to solving the party's current problems.
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Chris Cillizza
| May 18, 2009; 5:02 PM ET |
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The Republican Shrinkage Problem
The new Washington Post/ABC news poll has all sorts of intriguing numbers in it but when you are looking for clues as to where the two parties stand politically there is only one number to remember: 21. That's the percent of people in the Post/ABC survey who identified themselves as Republicans, down from 25 percent in a late March poll and at the lowest ebb in this poll since the fall of 1983 (!).
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Chris Cillizza
| April 27, 2009; 3:24 PM ET |
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Parsing the Polls: Obama on the Right Track
A new Associated Press poll that shows more Americans believe the country is headed in the right direction than is off on the wrong track for the first time in seven years lands in the political arena at just the right time for President Barack Obama.
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Chris Cillizza
| April 23, 2009; 2:23 PM ET |
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Parsing the Polls: Big (Bad) Government?
There will -- no doubt -- be any number of national issues in play in the 2010 midterm elections but the largest, we believe, will believe the battle between growing and shrinking government.
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Chris Cillizza
| April 20, 2009; 4:23 PM ET |
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Obama's First 90 Days In (Polling) Perspective
New data out of the indispensable Gallup polling organization shows that President Barack Obama's average job approval during his first 90 days in office is 63 percent, the highest rating in its surveys during that critical time period in more than three decades.
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Chris Cillizza
| April 17, 2009; 11:36 AM ET |
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