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I have no idea whether President Trump enjoyed the holidays. But it looks like they may have helped his approval rating, at least temporarily.

It turns out that "voting for the lesser of two evils" is a recent invention in presidential elections. We've seen dissenting liberals in wartime and disaffected conservatives amid stagflation, but there rarely has been overlapping dissatisfaction since the 1950s.

Research from the polling firm Gallup has found that Donald Trump is the "most unpopular candidate" for president in either major party — both in this election and all the way back to 1992.

Brutal news for Democrats in the latest Gallup survey:

A new Gallup poll shows the American people say climate change is one of the problems they worry about the least.

Good news.  Joy Wilke at Gallup reports that Americans are feeling increasingly upbeat. Recent polling data indicates that:

With more than two months into its implementation, most Americans want to see the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, repealed or scaled back, according to a new poll from Gallup. In a survey conducted earlier this week, 20 percent of adults said they want to scale back the health care…

Many Republican insiders continue to push the narrative that the GOP lost in 2012 because of the Hispanic vote and social issues, rather than because a badly broken Republican nomination process produced a candidate who didn’t emphasize Obamacare and didn’t motivate downscale rural white Americans…

A new poll from CNN demonstrates that Americans say the continuing investigations into two scandals that have arisen in the last week are important.

As Politico reported Tuesday, former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel was paid $120,000 in 2012 to work as a "senior adviser" to Gallup, the Omaha-based polling and research firm. Gallup won't explain what services or expertise Hagel actually provided.

While the mainstream press routinely reports that President Obama is riding high and that Republicans are reeling, Gallup tells a rather different story about the popularity of our newly reelected president.  Across Gallup’s entire history of presidential job-approval polling — dating back to 1945…

Mitt Romney and President Obama are now tied in the RealClearPolitics average of recent national polling, thanks in large part to the United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll released Wednesday afternoon. That poll projects an 8-point advantage in turnout for Democrats…

On Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume highlighted Mitt Romney’s clear advantage in Gallup, Rasmussen, and other national polling, and said, “Now…if those polls are generally correct, it is difficult to imagine that Ohio would be all that different.  Ohio has pretty closely tracked the national…

Gallup's week-long tracking poll of likely voters finds that Mitt Romney is leading Barack Obama by 6 percentage points, 51-45.

The latest polling from USA Today/Gallup shows Mitt Romney leading President Obama by 4 percentage points — 50 to 46 percent — among likely voters in swing states.  USA Today writes, “As the presidential campaign heads into its final weeks, the survey of voters in 12 crucial swing states finds…

Since about the beginning of President Obama’s tenure, the Gallup poll has generally been one of the least positive polls for the Democratic party. This has prompted outrage and pressure from the left--even from presidential advisor David Axelrod.

Gallup writes that Mitt Romney’s debate performance was the most dominant in the history of its polling on presidential debates, and that performance has now vaulted him into a share of the lead in the presidential race.  Gallup’s post-debate polling shows that Romney and President Obama are now…

A new poll from Gallup looks at how many 2008 voters say they will switch parties in the presidential race. According to the poll, more Americans who voted for Barack Obama will be voting for Mitt Romney than John McCain voters will switch to vote for Obama. Here are Gallup's results:

Yesterday, Obama senior campaign adviser David Axelrod claimed that the campaign wasn't worried about the damage being done by the president's "you didn't build that" remarks. Today, Gallup notes the following:

A new index from Gallup shows America's confidence in the economy is at its lowest level since January of this year. Confidence is higher than it was throughout 2011, but the spike this year appears to be on a downward trend:

Forty-six percent of Americans believe the Supreme Court's decision to uphold Obamcare will hurt the economy, according to a new Gallup poll.  Only 37 percent believe the health care overhaul will help the economy.

Over the weekend, Mark Blumenthal of the Huffington Post published a lengthy review of the Gallup poll’s methodology. It is a technical read, but I encourage you to give it a careful look.

Hillary Clinton's favorability with the American people remains near an all-time high, according to Gallup. Sixty-six percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Secretary of State, while only 23 percent view Clinton unfavorably, tied for a record low.

Louisiana Poll: "Santorum 42, Romney 28, Gingrich 18, Paul 8."

Rick Santorum, who trailed Mitt Romney by 20 points eight days ago, has now taken the lead in Gallup’s national polling.  In the Gallup poll released on February 8, Romney led Santorum by the tally of 37 to 17 percent. In the current Gallup poll, Santorum has moved into the lead — 32 to 31 percent. 

Yesterday I pointed out that "February 7 could prove to have been Super Tuesday if it turns out to be a key inflection point in the campaign."  Two indications, I wrote, of such an inflection point would be "if Santorum now passes Newt Gingrich in national Republican surveys" and if he "continues…

Real Clear Politics: "Dem Congressman: West 'Not Representative Of African-American Community'"

Last Monday, Gallup’s national 5-day polling (taken from January 11-15) showed Mitt Romney leading his nearest competitors in the Republican presidential field (Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum) by a colossal 23 percentage points — 37 to 14 percent. Just seven days later, Romney’s lead over Gingrich…

Gallup chief Frank Newport said that Mitt Romney's support is "collapsing" and that everything is within the realm of possibilities in this Republican primary. “We have seen more movement, more roller coaster kind of effect this year than any other Republican primary in our history of tracking,”…

With the first two presidential nominating contests under his belt, Mitt Romney is surging nationally among registered Republicans. Gallup's latest national poll shows Romney with 37 percent support, equaling his highest point of the race, and a 13-point swing for Romney from his position just…

ABC News: Romney's still the clear frontrunner in New Hampshire

According to the latest Gallup poll, support for Newt Gingrich has dropped from 37 percent to 31 percent in just the course of a week. He still maintains a comfortable lead over Romney, whose support has held steady at 22 percent in Gallup's poll. However, the rapid drop suggests that maybe some of…

A new poll from Gallup today finds that a majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents find Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney "acceptable" nominees for the GOP. For Gingrich, 62 percent of those polled said the former House speaker was an acceptable Republican nominee, while 54 percent…

According to Gallup, Barack Obama's quarterly approval hit an all-time low in the president's eleventh quarter in office at 41 percent.

Two new polls of Republicans and those who lean Republican show a sizable number of likely voters remain undecided on the 2012 presidential race.

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Earlier this morning, I noted that for the first time more Americans had an unfavorable view of the President than a favorable one. Well, here's some more bad news from the latest Gallup poll that's likely to reverberate around the White House:

According to the Gallup daily tracking poll, President Barack Obama hit his lowest monthly job approval rating last month, including his lowest rating among whites, Hispanics, and blacks. Black support for the president has slipped to an average 84 percent (the second time Gallup is showing this…

A new national poll from CNN/ORC International shows Rick Perry with a 13-point lead over Mitt Romney in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Twenty-seven percent of the Republicans and independents polled chose Perry as the candidate they would most likely support. Romney received…

Barack Obama reached a new high: 55 percent disapprove of the president, according to Gallup's daily tracking poll from this weekend. Obama's approval rating tied its lowest at 38 percent. The president has maintained a higher disapproval than approval rating throughout the month of August,…

Gallup is out with a new poll showing four of the Republican candidates for president beating or within striking distance of Barack Obama among registered voters. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has the greatest advantage, beating Obama 48 percent to 46 percent.

New Hampshire Journal: "Poll: Romney rocks, Perry pops, Bachmann doesn’t bounce"

According to Gallup's daily tracking poll, President Obama's disapproval rating has risen to 51 percent, while his approval rating hovers near his all-time low, at 41. The graph below shows the trends for the president's approval and disapproval over the last month:

Gallup's daily tracking poll for Barack Obama's approval rating shows a remarkable decline in the last week. On Monday, the president had 46 percent approval and 46 percent disapproval. Today, he's at 40 percent approval -- an all-time low in Gallup's tracking poll -- and 50 percent disapproval:

First, Public Policy Polling -- a Democratic Firm -- reports "Obama in Peril": 

"Senate Republicans Release Jobs Plan"

Just want to expand a bit to expand on the point about Paul Ryan's budget plan polling better with seniors mentioned in Jeffrey Anderson's post below. In fairly classic example of horserace political reporting run amok, Politico ran with a heavily touted story this morning, "Ryan plan puts elderly…

Polls show that Obamacare, which was highly unpopular at the time of its passage, is even less popular today. And Gallup’s most recently released poll offers further evidence to that effect. However, the poll’s headline—“One Year Later, Americans Split on Healthcare Law” — suggests otherwise and is…

Take this with a grain of salt, of course. Polling a generic Republican is a very different beast than weighing the merits of a living, breathing, actual candidate. Nonetheless, Axelrod, Plouffe and the rest of Obama's reelect team have to be a bit nervous about this Gallup poll:

The first poll I look to for presidential job approval is the Gallup poll. I don't know whether Gallup offers the best gauge of presidential support. Indeed, nobody can really know: the poll surveys support/opposition among all adults, and there is no independent arbiter to decide which pollster…

I was reminded yesterday of the single greatest public relations coup of the 20th century. Late last month, the Gallup poll asked Americans to evaluate how recent presidents handled their job in the White House. The big news for the political class was that 47 percent of respondents approved of…

According to Gallup, the GOP has gone from its all-time biggest lead on the generic ballot to a tie with the Democrats in the span of one week:

Is that sound you hear the bottom falling out of Barack Obama's approval ratings?

The last two polls from Gallup showed Democrats with a lead on the generic congressional ballot, but now Gallup's numbers have snapped back into line with most other pollsters showing a Republican lead. The Real Clear Politics average of polls shows the GOP with a 6-point lead.