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WASHINGTON, D.C. — According to sources, President Biden has been awaiting results from the latest polls to see if giving Israel a right to defend itself is a popular thing or if they should just be annihilated or whatever. "The Biden Administration plans to announce harsh condemnation of Hamas or maybe Israel," said Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, "We're still waiting for pollsters to get back with us on which condemnation is morally just." Sources say Presidential approval numbers have dropped in recent weeks, as Biden has been torn between appeasing his supporters who are pro-Israel, and appeasing his supporters who...

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said Sunday that he is “concerned” about President Biden’s lackluster poll numbers after recent surveys show him trailing former President Trump in next year’s election. “I was concerned before these polls, and I’m concerned now,” Blumenthal said on CNN”s “State of the Union.” “These presidential races over the last couple of terms have been very tight. No one is going to have a runaway election here. It’s going to take a lot of hard work, concentration, resources.”

The harder Democrats hit Donald J. Trump, the higher his poll numbers go. On June 8, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a federal indictment against Trump for allegedly mishandling classified records. But rather than sandbag Trump, Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 37 charges pumped helium into the reelection odds of America’s 45th president. Trump’s Poll Numbers Rise Despite Indictment Ten days later, ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl was astonished to see Trump rising in public opinion after becoming the first former president to face federal prosecution. “A poll from Quinnipiac on a possible Biden/Trump matchup puts Biden at 48 percent,...

Give a listen freepers. Go to 37 minutes and listen for another 10 with Richard Baris the pollster from People's Pundit Daily, the best their is. * Biden 31% right track, 60%+ wrong track. * Trump even head to head with Harris, Baris thought he'd never see that. * They are even loosing in the North East. * Cost of living, jobs, the economy.Bannon joked Nixon had better numbers as he got on the Helicopter to wave goodbye....

"Don't get cocky." That's the problem with lying to your opponents: Sometimes, you fall for your own lie [Continuing our series on deception and misdirection in politics and public policy.] Donald Trump’s continuing decline in the polls is a clear indicator that the GOP is facing disaster—that Trump will lose cataclysmically in November, perhaps becoming the first candidate to win a negative number of electoral votes, and that every other Republican on the ballot, from governors to U.S. Senators to Zika mosquito squashers, will perish in a landslide comparable to the Ruatoria debris avalanche off North Island, New Zealand, circa...

Whistling past the graveyard. I really don’t even know why the Democratic Party spends a dime on communication staff. Why not just hand out copies of the New York Times to everyone? It would accomplish the same purpose, and most of the time they’re all on social media posting links to the Times anyway. No matter what happens, the Times is there and ready to spin it to put the story in the best - or least bad - light for the Democrats. Those polls you’ve heard about in recent weeks that show Trump either pulling into the lead or...

You can almost hear the note of surprise in their voices when you read the Washington Post and New York Times reporters’ stories on their papers’ latest political polls. Surprise! Just when they thought that Barack Obama was pulling ahead, with positive job ratings, and just after the mainstream media have been savaging Republicans for two words Rush Limbaugh uttered on his radio program, Obama’s numbers seem to be tanking. Actually, the numbers are not so striking or so surprising. The media narrative for the last four weeks has been that the president’s job approval has been rising in response...

President Obama's Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, renounced his previously-stated desire to see gas prices rise to match European levels in order to motivate alternative energy research, telling the Senate today that he wants gas prices to fall for the sake of the economy. "We have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe," Chu said in 2008. When reminded of that comment today during his congressional testimony, Chu backed away from that position. "I no longer share that view," Chu told Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, today.

In his interview Tuesday with Bret Baier on Fox News' Special Report, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney explained why any bill failing to push the debt ceiling problem past the next election is unacceptable. "It would leave the cloud hanging over our ca--economy." (Watch it here, at about minute 2:15) The word "campaign" seemed more likely to have come out than "economy" in the phrase, particularly since clearing next year's re-election effort of further debt limit debate seems to have taken on greater importance to the President lately than any other single point of negotiation

Here is a great musical look at President Obama's declining poll numbers - "Slip Sliding Away." . . . (VIDEO)

Obama's crashing poll number...

6 weeks into their perspective administrations, had GWB leading 13 percentage points higher than Obama. GWB's poll numbers were higher in comparison to Obama's, EVEN after stealing the presidency (SARCASM) and ticking off half the nation. How can this be? All the liberal media told us Obama was the one to lead us to a brighter future. Obama poll numbers are in a free fall.

For this week's poll, we take a que from the Rasmussen poll. They're asking you to predict "The One's" approval at the end of this April. We're taking a longer term view. As in, the number that will have the greatest bearing on the 2010 mid-term elections. So, this week's question is: "What will Obama's public approval rating be on Labor Day, 2010?" Your options: Around 70% (all hail "The One"!) Around 60% (smooth sailin' for Dems in mid-terms) Around 50% (dicey mid-terms) Around 40% (ruh-roh!) Much less than 40% (Eject! Eject!) Click here to cast your vote and comment

Confronting a dire outlook for next year’s elections, House Republicans have begun to fight back with a new three-pronged strategy: painting the new Democratic majority as part of an unpopular Washington status quo, forcing Democrats to make unpopular votes on tough issues and locking arms around a new GOP issues agenda. House Republicans might well be expected to be watching their better-funded, in some cases cocky, Democratic competitors from the fetal position.

On paper, Mitt Romney seems the most attractive G.O.P. contender. He has business and executive experience, a fine family and no connection to the “Washington mess.” Yet his chance to win the nomination is slipping away. His national poll numbers barely hit double digits, his New Hampshire lead is vanishing, and he’s spending millions of dollars just to keep afloat. As he stood next to Fred Thompson at the Dearborn debate looking puzzled, one was reminded of the Saturday Night Live skit in which the Michael Dukakis character looked at the George H. W. Bush figure and said incredulously, “I...

The poll, conducted by the Wall Street Journal, is the latest to indicate a slump in public support for the US leader as his Republican party heads into the campaign for mid-term elections in November. In the poll, released in the newspaper's online edition, Bush has lost six percentage points in a month. Iraq remains the main concern. Twenty-eight percent of Americans say it is one of the two most important topics, up from 23 percent in April, followed by IMMIGRATION (16 percent) and the price of petrol (gasoline) (14 percent). Only 24 percent of the 1,003 people asked between...

I don't know which of two news stories that hit last week should embarrass the Bush administration more. First, we learned that a Department of Homeland Security spokesman was charged with soliciting a minor over the Internet and then, a few short days later, court documents came to light alleging that President Bush himself was the leak in the ongoing investigation into a 2003 CIA scandal. Brian Doyle, 56, resigned form the Homeland Security Department Friday after being charged with seven counts of solicitation of a minor and 16 counts of transmitting pornographic material to a minor. Police say that...

President Bush delivered his fifth State of the Union speech, but he didn't address the issues that matter most to working, middle-class Americans, from substantive health care reform to assuring educational opportunity to combating the outright war on our middle class. President Bush hopes this latest address will lift his poll numbers and set the tone for the midterm congressional and senatorial election campaigns. But the president and the Republican Party face major challenges. The American electorate is dissatisfied with the president's conduct of the war in Iraq and frustrated with the rising cost of health care, unchecked illegal immigration,...

There now looks to be about as much chance of the UAE government-owned Dubai Ports World taking over several ports in the United States as there does of George W. Bush running for a third term.  In other words, zero. Zilch Nada. Zip. Forget it.  Isn't going to happen. For the #1 reason why, let's go to the polls.  Not some slanted CBS poll...where only Democrats are asked Bush-hating questions that are written in order to solicit a specific answer.  No, today we have a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll.   And in that poll, 69% oppose letting the Arab firm take...

For years, California political reporters have written stories around the state Republican Party convention centered on one basic theme, the party's impressive ability to consistently consume their young. Whether it's burning Pete Wilson in effigy, as activists did outside the 1991 state party convention, or forcing showdowns on divisive social issues, conservative activists have controlled the party leadership and dominated pre- and post-convention headlines for as long as most Californians can remember. So it comes as no surprise that as the party is set to gather in San Jose next month, the same group of conservatives is making noise again....