“Public opinion” on The Daily Caller

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama earned his lowest marks ever on his handling of the economy in a new Associated Press-GfK poll, which also found that an overwhelming majority of Americans now describe the nation’s financial outlook as poor. (more)

For political junkies, the biggest names in polling, like Gallup and Mason-Dixon, never seem to offer new results frequently enough. But political reporters, like nature, abhor a vacuum, and so newer polling organizations have stepped in to fill the void, becoming widely cited and shaping the conventional wisdom about this year’s competitive races. (more)

In a speech to the House of Commons in 1941, Sir Winston Churchill declared, “Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup poll, always feeling one’s pulse and taking one’s temperature.” (more)

TOKYO (AP) — Embattled Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Wednesday he was resigning over his broken campaign promise to move a U.S. Marine base off the southern island of Okinawa. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Can you trust Washington? (more)

Bluntly put, this is the political reality: (more)

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey suggests that 75 per cent of Americans are at least somewhat angry at the government’s policies that are being instituted at the present moment, which is up four points from a similar poll in November. (more)

President Barack Obama will deliver his State of the Union address Wednesday night to a deeply divided country — and a deeply divided party. (more)

HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) — A new Quinnipiac University Poll shows Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal holding a hefty lead over his three Republican rivals for the U.S. Senate. (more)