66% said the firing of Paterno, who had been the school's head football coach since 1966, was the right move
USA TODAY/Gallup poll: Penn State football too powerful
Poll: Most Dems Say No to Primarying President Obama
Let’s do our own informal Tumblr poll. I’ll post the results later.
Should someone from Obama’s left challenge him in the 2012 Democratic Primaries?
Hey guys, 58 responses thus far, not too shabby. I would love to have a better sample size of the Tumblr community before posting the results tomorrow. So I’m reblogging for those who may not have seen this earlier. Thanks!
Poll: Most Dems Say No to Primarying President Obama
Let’s do our own informal Tumblr poll. I’ll post the results later.
Should someone from Obama’s left challenge him in the 2012 Democratic Primaries?
Latest CBS/NYT Poll:
- Obama job approval rating at 45%. 47% disaprove.
- Obama 41% approval for handling of the economy, 51% disapproval.
- 60% says Obama has not made progress on fixing the economy, 35% says he has.
- Blame for the economy? Poll says 37% blame Bush; 21% Wall Street. 46% say Recovery Act has had “no impact” on the economy.
- On the health care reform act: 37% of those surveyed approve, 49% disapprove.
- 53% support letting tax cuts expire for the rich; 38% oppose.
- Americans back Obama handling of Afghan war 48-34.
- 1 in 3 wrongly believe Obama has raised taxes for “most” Americans.
- By 54% to 42%, people say they want a “third party.”
- If candidate backed by Tea party only 14% more likely to vote for him, 28% less likely.
- 71% to 23%, people say invading Iraq NOT worth it.
- Palin’s favorable rating down from 23% to 21% since August, unfavorable up from 40% to 46%
Via Tweets from The Nation’s Greg Mitchell and CBS News’ Mark Knoller
Complete poll results here
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For years, pundits and politicians on the left have been calling themselves “progressives” to avoid the apparent stigma of the word “liberal.” But a USA Today/Gallup poll released today indicates that a majority of Americans still aren’t sure what “progressive” really means.
According to the poll, 54% percent of adults are unsure if the word “progressive” describes their political views. Fifty-seven percent of self-identified liberals, 65% of moderates, and 45% of conservatives just don’t know if the word aptly characterizes their political outlook.
”Poll: 55% Of Likely Voters Think U.S. Has A Socialist-In-Chief ... Have Months Of Fox News Hyperventilating And Right-Wing Fear Mongering Finally Paid Off? - TPM
The poll (PDF) from Democracy Corps finds that 55 percent of likely voters believe that the word “socialist” describes the president either “well” or “very well.”
continue reading click above link
really? answers prayers? ok, I’ll give it a shot:
Dear God, please help Americans not be so FUCKIN STUPID!
Which would you rather lose? The right to bear arms or the right to vote?
“Overall, 62 percent of those polled back new, tougher federal regulations on the way banks and other financial institutions conduct their business, but that’s down from 76 percent a year ago.”
huh? wha? down 14 points?
I point those of you who have changed your minds to this quote from Paul Krugman:
“…And so it is with finance. Those who think that “too big to fail” is the essence of the problem have to explain why Canada, with basically just five banks, has avoided crisis…
So what’s Canada’s secret? Regulation, regulation, regulation.”
A new CBS News/ New York Times poll finds that the wording of the question is key when it comes to determining whether Americans support allowing gays to serve in the military.
continue reading… cbsnews
“Washington Post-ABC News poll: seventy-one percent of Americans say Palin is unqualified to be President; 2/3rds say the federal government isn’t working.”
…63 percent want comprehensive health reform to pass, and more Independents want to see it pass than Republicans want to see it fail.
…on Fox News Sunday — the network’s flagship broadcast — Chris Wallace asked Sarah Palin whether she would run for president, pointing out that a recent poll showed her as the frontrunner among Republican voters.
Which poll was Wallace citing? You guessed it: none other than the Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll of Republicans derided just days earlier as a “fraud” by O’Reilly and Rove.
via dailykos
Are You A Blogger? Then You Are Probably An Old Fart
- Teenagers and young adults spent less time blogging during the past three years…
- Twitter, has failed to catch on with the vast majority of younger teenagers…
- blogging has become so 2006, when 28 percent of the two groups studied, teens 12 to 17 and young adults 18 to 29, actively blogged…
- By the fall of 2009, that percentage dropped off to only 14 percent of teens and 15 percent of young adults as blogging “lost its luster for many young users,”…
- About 52 percent of those surveyed had memberships in more than one social network, up from 42 percent in 2008….
- only 40 percent of adults age 30 and older used social media sites in 2009…
facebook is winning out according to this study.
much more from the Pew Research Center here.
