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MSNBC
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Adding to the volatility is the economy. Anxiety over that issue, already high a month ago, has continued to climb. More than 4 in 10 voters cited the economy as the one issue they want the candidates to address, up from about 30 percent in a CBS News Pol..
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MSNBC
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Sen. Barack Obama holds a 10-point lead over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton when Democrats are asked whom they would prefer to see emerge as the party's presidential nominee, but there is little public pressure to bring the long and increasingly heated conte..
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CNN
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Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton would both statistically tie Republican John McCain in a general election matchup, a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll indicates. According to the poll released Tuesday morning, both Obama and Clinton are locked in..
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MSNBC
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Although Clinton is ahead in this poll, Obama is viewed among Democrats — by 48 percent to 38 percent — as the candidate having a better chance of defeating Sen. John McCain, the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee.
But the poll s..
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MSNBC
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He’s from Illinois and I’m from Illinois and he reminds me of Abraham Lincoln,” said Dylan Jones, 53, a laborer from Oxford, N.C., who was interviewed in a follow-up to the poll. “I can see him out there splitting rails. I don’t have anything ag..
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MSNBC
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That change is also evident in South Carolina, where the new MSNBC poll shows a 10-point decline for Obama among whites in just one week.
Although a generic Democrat has a 17-point lead over a generic Republican in the NBC/Journal survey, the race is m..
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MSNBC
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GOP race remains in flux
The poll’s findings are based on a national telephone survey conducted Jan. 9-12 with 1,061 registered voters; it has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.
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CNN
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Just two weeks until the Iowa caucuses, the Democratic presidential candidates appear to be in a dead heat in the Hawkeye State, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll. Thirty percent of likely Iowa Democratic caucus-goers support Sen. Hillary..
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CNN
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Barack Obama has chipped away at Hillary Clinton's lead in New Hampshire locking the Democrats in a statistical tie a month before the first presidential primary, according to a CNN/WMUR Poll released Wednesday. Clinton has dropped 5 percentage points sin..
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CNN
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While presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is surging in new polls of GOP candidates, a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Tuesday shows he would lose to all three leading Democratic candidates by double digits in hypothetical contests. In head-to-hea..
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SF Gate
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New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton - more than any other 2008 candidate for the White House - is seen through an intensely partisan lens by Californians, with about a third of the state's voters already having decided they wouldn't vote for her for pres..
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CNN
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Do Americans trust the top U.S. military commander in Iraq to report what's really going on without making the situation sound better than it is? In a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll last month, Americans were asked that very question. Fifty-three p..
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USA Today
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Opposition to the Iraq war has reached a record high, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, a development likely to complicate President Bush's efforts to hold together Republican support as the Senate begins debate this week on Pentagon priorities.
Bush's ap..
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USA Today
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are essentially tied for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, the first time that the New York senator hasn't clearly led the field.
The Illinois senator bests Clinton by..
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CNN
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What matters in politics is not just how many people are on each side of an issue, but also how much they care about it.
Politicians talk about "kitchen table" issues: "Ordinary people around the kitchen table concerned about the high taxation, high co..
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Al Jazeera
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The last US leader to be as unpopular as Bush was Jimmy Carter who also scored 28 per cent in 1979 in the wake of the Iran hostage crisis.
Bush burden
Bush's unpopularity may hurt Republican hopes of keeping the White House in 2008.
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New York Times
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In the months since the Congressional elections, President Bush has lost substantial support among members of his own party, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
Mr. Bush’s approval rating dropped 13 percentage points since last fall..
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MSNBC
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Following his State of the Union address, President Bush’s approval rating hits a new low in the NEWSWEEK Poll, as Sen. Hillary Clinton enjoys an early lead among the field of likely candidates in the ’08 race...
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CBS News
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President Bush will deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday night to a nation that's strongly opposed to his plan for increasing troops in Iraq and deeply unhappy with his performance as president, according to a CBS News poll...
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USA Today
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"President Bush's address to the nation last week outlining a 'new way forward' in Iraq failed to move public opinion in support of his plan to increase U.S. troop levels and left Americans more pessimistic about the likely outcome of the war," USA T..
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