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Category: Polling
Ron Paul third party run would hurt President Obama, new poll finds
As Ron Paul continues to cause commotion in the Republican Party, a recent Rasmussen poll tested what likely voters would do if the Texas Congressman ran in the general election as an independent. In a three-way race, 44 percent of likely voters said they would vote for Mitt Romney, while 39 percent chose Barack Obama and 13 percent chose Paul.
Read MorePoll: Texans pick LBJ as best president to come out of Lone Star State
Thirty-nine percent of Texas voters think Lyndon B. Johnson is the best President to have come out of Texas, according to a recent poll from Public Policy Polling.
Is the MSM starting to sour on Obama? Ron Paul gets most favorable coverage this year
“Of all the presidential candidates studied in this report, only one figure did not have a single week in 2012 when positive coverage exceeded negative coverage—the incumbent, Democrat Barack Obama.” That’s what a Pew Research Center study of 2012 presidential coverage has concluded.
Poll: More Americans than ever support gun rights AND gay marriage
Compared to both 2004 and 2008, Americans are now more conservative when it comes to gun rights, but more liberal when it comes to gay marriage.
Read MorePoll: A Latino VP does nothing to boost Hispanic support for Mitt Romney
In Florida, President Obama is the frontrunner and actually fares better against Mitt Romney with Marco Rubio on the ticket than without the Florida senator as Romney’s running mate. The PPP survey showed Hispanic support for Obama-Biden at 51 percent and a Romney-Rubio ticket at 44 percent.
Texas Reps. John Carter, Pete Sessions and Mac Thornberry endorse Mitt Romney
The endorsements come as a new phone survey taken by Rasmussen reports found that Romney had taken a narrow lead in the Texas Republican race with 32 percent of likely Republican primary voters’ support, compared to Rick Santorum’s 30 percent, Newt Gingrich’s 19 percent and fellow Texan Ron Paul’s 9 percent.
New poll shows country deeply divided — still — over ObamaCare
After three days of hearings inside the Supreme Court and protests outside the Supreme Court, it’s now left to the nine justices to settle the Affordable Care Act’s future.The American people, however, have already made up their minds.
Four in ten Americans want less religion in politics
Religion and politics have always been interconnected in the US, but many Americans are starting to think they are too close. In a new report from Pew Research Center, 38 percent of Americans say they think that there’s too much expression of religious faith and prayers in politics.
GOP field in a word: Romney=Rich, Santorum=Conservative, Paul=Old
People say you should go with your gut. If that’s true, all the GOP candidates might have a problem.The most common first response when Americans hear the names of the Republican presidential candidates is “No” or “No way”.
TexMessage: U.S. voters strongly favor Democrats over GOP on energy
Gas prices are up, and Americans are very unhappy. You don’t need to look at the latest public opinion poll to know that.
But the latest poll out there — the new Pew Research Center survey — contains a couple of surprising results. More Americans approve of President Obama’s handling of energy policy than did at the beginning of the year.
Read MoreSantorum holds 8-point lead in new Texas presidential poll
A new survey by the the GOP polling firm of Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research gave Rick Santorum an 8 percentage point lead over Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney in Texas.
The former Pennsylvania senator took 35 percent in the poll of 750 likely Texas Republican primary voters, followed by Romney (27 percent), Newt Gingrich (20 percent) and Ron Paul (8 percent). Ten percent of Texas Republicans remain undecided.
Read MorePoll: Romney leads three-way race in Texas — but would lose to Santorum one-on-one
Texas voters still have a while before they weigh in with their choice for the Republican presidential nominee, but a new poll pegs Mitt Romney as the frontrunner — barely. In a March 12 Rasmussen Reports poll, likely voters from Texas weighed in with their opinion of the GOP hopefuls, as well as Texas Governor Rick Perry. (Hint: They like Perry. Newt, not so much.)
Santorum’s biggest Texan supporter is a family-owned tomato business … but probably not for long
While Texas billionaires such as Bob Perry, Harold Simmons and Stephen Oskoui have poured millions into the campaigns of Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul, Rick Santorum’s biggest supporter in Texas is CEO of a family-owned tomato business.
Texas political trends: surging conservatism, libertarianism, anti-immigration sentiment (VIDEO)
Three Texas political trends have emerged from the Texas Tribune’s latest poll: a strong conservative surge, a movement toward libertarianism and the belief that the overarching issue in the U.S. is the economy and in Texas is immigration.
