Tag: Polling
GOP ready to fight Sotomayor as Latino support for Republicans erodes
On the heels of a poll that shows Latino voter support for the Republican Party dropping into single digits, GOP senators are preparing to launch a new round of attacks on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, Roll Call reports.
Only 8 percent of Latino voters view the Republican Party favorably, compared with 86 percent who view it unfavorably, according to a nonpartisan Research 2000 poll released Monday by Daily Kos. That's down from the already low esteem Latino voters had for Republicans before the Sottomayor nomination, The Plum Line's Greg Sarget points out. In May, the GOP was viewed favorably by 11 percent of Latino voters and unfavorably by 79 percent.
Poll: Few voters think Sotomayor is a ‘racist,’ majority say she’s...
Only eight percent of Americans agree with Tom Tancredo that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor "is a racist," according to a non-partisan poll released Friday. A majority ranks "empathy" as important for a Supreme Court justice and an even bigger majority says Sotomayor is qualified for the high court.
Racism, affirmative action charges fail to derail Sotomayor nomination
Vicious personal attacks leveled by conservatives designed to undermine the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court haven't yet turned the public against the likely first Latina judge appointed to the nation's highest bench.
Current downturn: not your grandfather’s recession
Older folks are weathering kitchen table economic worries far better than their children or grandchildren, reports the Pew Research Center in a new telephone survey of American adults.
Gallup: More Americans say income taxes are okay
In the first of many expected "tea party" buzz kills today, a new Gallup Poll finds that 48 percent of Americans say the amount of income tax they pay is "about right" edging out those that complain the rate is too high.
The pollster's annual Tax Day survey notes a radical departure in this year's report — taxpayers have the most rosy view of paying their fair share of government revenue since 1956.
Pew: Latino incarceration rates increase, legal confidence wanes
The tenuous political relationship between African Americans and Latinos may have found a new rallying point — criminal justice reform.
Concerns by both groups about growing incarceration rates and flagging confidence in the legal system are highlighted in a new national study released Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan think tank.
Silver: Colorado could be willing to reverse gay marriage ban in...
Colorado voters will be ready to repeal the state's constitutional ban on gay marriage next year, according to an analysis by voting statistics geek Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com.
Following the Iowa Supreme Court's establishment of same-sex marriage on Friday, Silver examined the trends in the 30 states that have voted on gay marriage bans and found that "while you might (not) know it from Proposition 8's victory last year, voter initiatives to ban gay marriage are becoming harder and harder to pass every year."
Religion-and-politics poll reaches ‘Seinfeld’ proportions on nothingness
Focus on the Family Action exposes a shocking revelation from a new poll on religious beliefs and politics — liberals and conservatives are different.
The evangelical pollster The Barna Group reveals this and other rather obvious conclusions at CitizenLink.com, the lobbying arm of the Colorado Springs-based ministry and publishing empire. Grab the smelling salts and read on.
Statistics freak Nate Silver names Zogby ‘worst pollster in the world’
Baseball statistician-turned political fortune teller Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com posts a devastating critique of public opinion pollster Zogby International — replete with enough charts and margin of error figures to make a math geek weep.
TCI Street Poll: Should we kill the death penalty?
House Majority Leader Paul Weissmann and Sen. Morgan Carroll are angling to repeal the state death penalty and direct the estimated $370,000 cost savings to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation's Cold Case Homicide Team.
Will Colorado follow New Mexico's lead? Gov. Bill Richardson abolished the death penalty Wednesday and replaced it with life without parole for the most heinous crimes.
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