tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1325346 2009-11-17T17:00:00Z A Run at the Latest Data from ABC's Poobah of Polling, Gary Langer TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4df253ef012875ad2f42970c 2009-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2009-11-17T17:51:50Z

Americans divide evenly on whether to try 9/11 suspects in U.S. civilian courts or military tribunals, a split – like so many – driven chiefly by partisan and ideological differences. Our latest ABC News/Washington Post poll asks whether suspects accused...

Gary Langer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4df253ef012875a7b2ce970c 2009-11-16T08:00:00-05:00 2009-11-16T19:15:41Z

The buildup to her new book hasn’t eased Sarah Palin’s political challenges: Just over half of Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll have an unfavorable opinion of her overall, as many say they wouldn’t consider supporting her for...

Gary Langer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4df253ef0120a68769a7970b 2009-11-12T11:16:16-05:00 2009-11-12T16:39:03Z

The University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Gallup Organization gave their 2008 Iowa Gallup Award for Excellent Journalism Using Polls to "The Numbers" blog at a ceremony in Washington last night. My remarks represented an...

Gary Langer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4df253ef0120a64bbac7970b 2009-11-02T15:13:42-05:00 2009-11-02T20:13:42Z

While spinmeisters from both sides will do their best after tomorrow’s results are in, it's a dicey business to draw broad conclusions from state and local off-year elections. The turnout's different and the issues and candidates are idiosyncratic, meaning conclusions...

Gary Langer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4df253ef0120a6290706970b 2009-10-28T12:26:38-04:00 2009-10-28T16:26:38Z

What are the odds California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s acrostic nastygram could have happened by random chance? My opening bid is about one in 10 billion. That’s not the right answer, but it does provide a rough sense of what the...

Gary Langer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4df253ef0120a6654f4a970c 2009-10-21T15:30:00-04:00 2009-10-21T19:31:42Z

The New York Times is reporting that the Obama administration plans to order deep cuts in executive compensation at companies that have received federal bailout funds – a move that draws broad and strong public support in our latest poll....

Gary Langer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4df253ef0120a608462b970b 2009-10-20T16:53:00-04:00 2009-10-21T12:10:00Z

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich had some pretty harsh criticism of our latest poll today, charging in a radio interview that it was “deliberately rigged.” He's entitled, of course, to his opinion. But not to a distortion of the facts....

Gary Langer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4df253ef0120a5f54ebd970b 2009-10-19T12:01:00-04:00 2009-10-19T16:01:00Z

With talks underway in Vienna today, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds that Americans overwhelmingly suspect Iran of trying to produce nuclear weapons – but by wide margins prefer diplomacy or economic sanctions to a military response by the...

Gary Langer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4df253ef0120a5d1c070970b 2009-10-09T07:57:57-04:00 2009-10-09T14:56:46Z

While public reaction to Barack Obama's award remains to be seen, past Nobel Peace Prizes for political figures have not always reflected or engendered broad public support. In a Gallup poll in October 2007, for example, fewer than half of...

Gary Langer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4df253ef0120a61abdbc970c 2009-10-06T12:56:08-04:00 2009-10-06T16:56:52Z

Significant public compunctions mark the eighth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan – more a gradual shift in Americans’ attitudes than a sudden change, but a reassessment nonetheless, one that in many ways reflects the administration’s own. It’s underway elsewhere,...

Gary Langer