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Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to lead the race for the Democratic nomination, the December IBD/TIPP Poll shows. Biden garnered 26% support, down slightly from 29% in November but the same reading as in October. And in head-to-head polls, only Biden among major Democratic candidates still leads President Trump, who moved ahead of Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, as the Dow Jones industrial average moved to record highs.

With 16 days to go until November 8, Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton by 2 percentage points — 43% to 41% — in a four-way race, according to the latest IBD/TIPP presidential tracking poll. Unrounded, Trump leads 42.6% to 40.8% — a 1.8-point edge — with Johnson at 7.2% and Stein at 3.3%. Trump also holds a nearly one-point lead in a two-way matchup — 43.2% to 42.3%.

Donald Trump expanded his lead over Hillary Clinton in a four-way race to two points, 42%-40%, in day 4 of the IBD/TIPP presidential tracking poll, with Trump moving past his Democratic rival in a head-to-head match-up for the first time.....Meanwhile, in a 2-way race, Trump leads Clinton by a half-point -- 42.2% to 41.7%. Previously, Clinton had led by two or three points in a 2-way race vs. Trump.

With the price of gas up 39 cents at the pump in a month and heading higher amid turmoil in much of the Middle East, Americans wonder why the U.S. isn't doing more to exploit its own oil resources. They favor drilling in territorial waters, 67%-29%, according to a new IBD/TIPP poll. That is up from 61%-30% from last May and 64%-25% when Republicans touted drilling in the 2008 election as oil topped $147 a barrel. There's also been a solid shift toward drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with support at 54%-40%. That's up from 49%-43% last year.

It's been a hot summer in Washington, D.C., but the forecast for President Obama and Democrats is dark, overcast and chilly , according to July's IBD/TIPP poll. Only 43% of likely voters say they want the Democrats to retain control of Congress after November's midterm elections, while 48% favor a Republican takeover. Independents, the swing voters that decide elections, are even more eager for change: They prefer GOP control by a 52%-31% margin.

Editorial pages may rage against the Arizona immigration law, but a solid majority of Americans support it, an IBD/TIPP poll found. Sixty percent back the law, with 40% strongly favoring it, according to preliminary results. Meanwhile, 30% oppose it, with 20% strongly disapproving it. The remaining 10% are unsure. The responses show a public increasingly frustrated with the response by local, state and federal authorities and welcoming solutions — like Arizona's law — that would have been politically untenable a few years ago.

Voters are souring on the economy and the government’s remedies, according to February's IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index. It fell 4.1% to 46.8, matching December’s level and the weakest since July. “Persisting high unemployment and a wobbly stock market dampened January’s optimism,” said Raghavan Mayur, president of TIPP, IBD’s polling partner. Readings below 50 signal pessimism. Confidence in federal economic politics dived 7% to 38.3, the lowest since President Obama took office.

he IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index rose 2 points in January to 48.8, the first gain in four months but the sub-50 reading still indicates pessimism. Yet the six-month outlook gauge shot up 5.1 points to 51.8, the first upbeat reading since September. “The defining thing is going to be jobs, jobs, jobs. There is no shying away from that,” said Raghavan Mayur, president of TIPP, a unit of TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, IBD’s polling partner. “We have a new year and people are hoping that the economy will continue to go, and they’ve also been told to wait for mid-2010 for...

After seesawing between 3.2 and 3.9 points over the weekend, Obama's lead slipped to 2.8 Monday. Battleground also has Obama up 3, and other polls have tightened, including Rasmussen, Zogby and Gallup to 5. Some polls show swings in independents, but IBD/TIPP has them in a stable, 5-point range.

Sorry no link to any article. You can check out the numbers at Realclearpolitics. Anyways, this poll is bad news for John Kerry. And here's why: IBD/TIPP POLL: 8/2-8/5 (POST DNC POLL) KERRY: 49 BUSH: 43 CURRENT IBD/TIPP POLL: 8/17/823 KERRY: 44 BUSH: 44 Result- Kerry loses his 6 point lead that he got from the Democratic Convention. In a 3 way race: POST CONVENTION POLL: KERRY: 45 BUSH: 42 NADER: 5 CURRENT POLL: KERRY: 43 BUSH: 43 NADER: 5 RESULT: Kerry loses lead from the convention. This is bad news for the Kerry folk as what little bounce Kerry...

Swift Vets are destroying Kerry. Two weeks ago this poll showed Bush 43, Kerry 49!

Much has been made about the role religion now plays in politics — how, for example, voters who attend church more regularly tend to favor Republicans, while those who go less often lean Democratic.Less has been done to determine how religion might play out in the swing states and among independents. Will faith, for example, give Bush a much-needed boost down the stretch to keep the White House?IBD/TIPP analysis reveals that in swing states and among the all-important independent voting bloc, Bush has an edge over the competition in large part due to his — and their — faith. Protestants...