Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 3/2-5. All adults. MoE 2% (2/23-6 results): FAVORABLE UNFAVORABLE NET CHANGE PRESIDENT OBAMA 69 (71) 26 (25) -3 PELOSI: 41 (42) 38 (37) -2 REID: 35 (34) 43 (43) +1 McCONNELL: 21 (22) 51 (50) -2 BOEHNER: 15 (16) 53 (53) -1 CONGRESSIONAL DEMS: 45 (46) 46 (45) -2 CONGRESSIO...

Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 2/16-9. All adults. MoE 2% (2/9-12 results): FAVORABLE UNFAVORABLE NET CHANGE PRESIDENT OBAMA 69 (68) 25 (25) +1 PELOSI: 43 (42) 39 (39) +1 REID: 33 (32) 41 (42) +2 McCONNELL: 23 (22) 51 (50) +0 BOEHNER: 17 (18) 54 (55) +0 CONGRESSIONAL DEMS: 41 (39) 53 (53) +2 CONGRESSI...

Time magazine is clearly dispensing with "news" reporting this week. Michael Grunwald started his article "How to Spend the Stimulus" with this sentence: "It's hard to take Republican leaders too seriously when they criticize the recovery plans for the economy; it's sort of ...

Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 1/26-29. All adults. MoE 2% (1/19-22 results) FAVORABLE UNFAVORABLE DON'T KNOW PRESIDENT OBAMA 75 (77) 22 (20) 3 (3) PELOSI: 41 (42) 38 (36) 21 (22) REID: 34 (34) 41 (39) 25 (27) McCONNELL: 26 (27) 46 (44) 28 (29) BOEHNER: 22 (22) 48 (47) 30 (31) CONGRESSIONAL DEMS: 40 (...

From the pages of Politico to God's ears: Congressional Republicans, who only weeks ago were sheepish about their own electoral failures and cowed by Obama's polish and popularity, are suddenly punching back — hard — on both sides of the Capitol. The Senate GOP surprised the administration Monda...

As we have been reminded 11 times in the past few weeks, when a football team completes a disastrous regular season or two, the ownership's reaction is almost always the same: clean house and start fresh. National Republican leaders should be thankful their party isn't an NFL franchise. Since 2006, ...

The Myth of 61, that pulled-out-of-the-Bush-administration-Pentagon's-ass assertion that 61 released detainees have gone back to terrorism just won't die. David Gregory won't let it. On the January 25 edition of NBC's Meet the Press, host David Gregory allowed House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-O...

That didn’t take long. John McCain is on TV this weekend saying he won’t vote for the stimulus package. Other leading Republicans are complaining about the package not having enough tax cuts…blah, blah, blah. Of course they’re also on all the Sunday morning talk shows complai...

Every week, Research 2000 will poll 2,400 adults nationwide to get an idea of public sentiment for Obama, the Congressional leadership, the two parties in Congress, the two political parties, and sentiment for direction of the country. The first poll was conducted last week. Research 2000 for Daily ...

President-elect Barack Obama arrived on Capitol Hill yesterday and immediately set to work reassuring skeptical Republicans about his massive economic stimulus package -- part of a campaign that earned him praise for seeking their input but questions from those averse to hundreds of billions of......