“Scott Rasmussen” on The Daily Caller

With former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich low in the polls and splitting the conservative vote with former Sen. Rick Santorum, commentators and pundits have suggested that Gingrich should drop out of the GOP race. Political analyst Scott Rasmussen told The Daily Caller that a dispassionate reading of the tea leaves suggests they’re right. (more)

Pollster Scott Rasmussen told The Daily Caller Wednesday that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is “not going to win” and “needs to assess his role in the Republican Party.” (more)

Former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain, long considered a second-tier Republican presidential candidate before his recent surge in the polls, now enjoys a slight lead over President Barack Obama according to Rasmussen Reports. (more)

In the latest Fox News poll, Rep. Michele Bachmann scored a surprisingly low four percent, behind Texas Governor Rick Perry, who led with 26 percent. Mitt Romney followed at 18 percent, Sarah Palin doubled Bachmann’s support with eight percent, and Rep. Ron Paul registered seven percent. (more)

Conservative pollster Scott Rasmussen jabbed at former House Speaker and 2012 Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich Thursday night, saying he had no shot whatsoever at the GOP nomination. (more)

Likely Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee could beat Pres. Obama according to a series of polls conducted by Rasmussen. (more)

After the attacks on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush’s approval ratings increased significantly. On September 10, he was polling at a respectable 51 percent. Four days after the attack, his approval rate was at 85 percent. A week after that, Bush had the highest presidential approval rating ever recorded at 90 percent. (more)

In the 2005 motion picture Cinderella Man, Russell Crowe’s character, Depression-era boxer James Braddock, is asked by a sports reporter why he returned a welfare payment, to which Braddock replied, “I believe we live in a great country, a country that’s great enough to help a man financially when he’s in trouble. But lately, I’ve had some good fortune, and I’m back in the black. And I just thought I should return it.” (more)

The biggest foreclosure yet may begin on November 2nd, as voters start foreclosure proceedings against big government.  It’s run up more debt than we can afford to pay. (more)

The Democratic Governors Association plans to spend tens of millions of dollars between now and Election Day on numerous races around the country, but even that might not be enough to stave off disaster. (more)

Douglas Schoen and Scott Rasmussen are the authors of the new book, “Mad As Hell: How the Tea Party Movement Is Fundamentally Remaking Our-Two-Party System.” Rasmussen is an independent pollster and founder of Rasmussen Reports while Schoen co-founded the polling firm Penn, Schoen, and Berland and is a Fox News contributor. (more)

Republicans will do very well in the November elections. They almost certainly will take control of the House. If this is a “wave” election, they could capture the Senate as well. Control of Congress, however, is only half the battle. If Republicans want to completely blunt the Obama agenda and set the country on a different course, they must win the White House in 2012. To do that, they need the right nominee; and, like her or not, the potential Republican presidential candidate talked about more than any other is Sarah Palin. (more)

There hasn’t been much to cheer up the White House in recent weeks, but last night’s Tea Party upset in Delaware’s GOP Senate primary must have prompted some pretty big smiles in the West Wing. “Tea Party Scores Big” was the Washington Post headline this morning. But the headline could easily have been: “Big Night for the White House.” (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)

Barack Obama’s poll numbers have plummeted further and faster than any incumbent president in modern times. Then came passage of Obamacare. With it a new conventional wisdom took hold: Obama is Superman! The diffident and detached intellectual had entered the final legislative battle over Obamacare as Jimmy Carter and emerged as Franklin Roosevelt. Amidst huzzahs from the lamestream media, Obama showed he could inspire both fear and enthusiasm, bending Congress to his will and forcing passage of the most sweeping social legislation since Medicare in 1965 and Social Security in 1935. Correspondingly, the media predicted, his base would snap out of its comatose stupor and rush to the polls to punish do-nothing Republicans who had sold their souls to the far right and the Tea Party crowd. (more)

Republicans and conservatives in particular have been riding high as polls have shown independents moving away from the Democrats and toward them. This has especially been true since Sen. Scott Brown’s win last month in Massachusetts, in a seat once thought unwinnable for a Republican. (more)

President Obama’s approval ratings have hit an all-time low, indicating that the White House faces a tough job as it tries to gather support this week for both a jobs bill and a revised health-care bill. (more)

It has been over a year since Barack Obama became president, yet he continues in campaign mode blaming his predecessor for the state of the economy and the deficit in a decidedly unpresidential fashion. (more)

Barack Obama was inaugurated as president one year ago Wednesday to the hosannas of the mainstream media. He strolled down Pennsylvania Avenue hand-in-hand with his wife Michelle, exuding the confidence of a man basking in sky-high poll numbers that approached 70 percent. What a difference a year makes. (more)