New Zogby Poll: Obama Recovers, Congress Suffers from Shutdown
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A new poll by Zogby Analytics shows President Barack Obama bouncing a couple of points from a low 43% job approval rating two weeks ago. The new poll of 909 likely voters conducted online October 9 and 10, has the President up to 45% approval and 52% disapproval. The poll’s margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points.
Zogby Report Card: Shutdown is Obama's failure, period
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Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that although the GOP might get lots of the blame for the government shut down, it is President Obama’s failure because he’s the boss presiding over it.
Zogby Report Card: Shutdown politics favor Obama, but he hasn't taken control
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Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama won the first round of the shutdown fight, but at the same time failed to show leadership and lead Washington to a solution.
Newsmax/Zogby Poll: Virginia Governor's Race Too Close
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With only about a month to go, a new Newsmax/Zogby Poll of 600 likely voters in Virginia shows that gubernatorial race too close to call. In the race between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Ken Cucinelli, the Democrat outpaces the Republican by an insignificant 33% to 32%, with 11% choosing "another candidate" and a huge 24% undecided.
The Bigger Battles Behind The Shutdown
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By: John Zogby Forbes.com Contributor
The good folks at PBS thought they had a good idea in 1973 when they decided to air a documentary series called “An American Family.” This was supposed to be an unprecedented inside look at a real family in the Midwest, the Louds, in their day-to-day life. And we viewers became privy to conversations, fights, jealousies, moments of triumph, and very human shortcomings. The problem was that it was not very pretty. In fact, it was awful: it was uncomfortable and painful to watch. We got to view a dysfunctional family actually unravel, deteriorate and finally disintegrate. It was terrible.
Shutdown? The High Speed Train to Nowhere
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There used to be a time when Presidents and Congresses made policy and when political strategists knew what they were doing. And now there is no sense of either. Let’s take this whole budget impasse, hyperpartisanship, brinkmanship, and political maneuvering apart and try to understand what is going on inside the Beltway these days.