Stories tagged "poll"

Those on the left, right and center -- including Democratic nominee Barack Obama's campaign -- are weighing in on Sarah Palin's national debut last night at the Republican National Convention.

A new poll suggests that Barack Obama is widening his lead over John McCain in two battleground states but indicates the race is dead even in Ohio, the state that decided the last presidential election.

What do you think? Can younger people really teach the older ones? Or is it impossible?

Barack Obama met the 50 percent threshold for the first time Tuesday in the Gallup daily tracking poll, a symbolic hurdle that until now had eluded the Democratic nominee.

The Democratic convention appears to have helped solidify support for Barack Obama among former Hillary Clinton supporters, with the percent saying they will vote for Obama in November increasing from 70% pre-convention to 81% post-convention.

The Democratic presidential ticket of Obama-Biden holds a six percentage point lead over the Republican McCain-Palin ticket, 48% to 42%, in Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Thursday to Saturday. This includes two days of interviews after Obama’s acceptan

A poll of hunters and anglers revealed that more than 80% think the U.S. should set a bold, new energy policy and set a goal to achieve 100% of our electricity from renewable energy in 10 years. Nearly half of those surveyed have yet to pick a candidate.

Democrat Barack Obama holds a wide lead over rival, Republican John McCain, when it comes to voters 18 to 24 years old, according to a new poll commissioned by Harvard University's Institute of Politics (IOP).

People who say they're undecided on a hot political topic may already have made up their minds; they just haven't consciously realized it yet. A clever new study that measured unconscious positive and negative associations indicates that ...

Americans have concerns about Obama's experience and McCain's independence from Bush policies, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds.