The ranks of the uninsured continued to grow last year according to Gallup. Their poll found that 17.1 percent of adults did not have health insurance in 2011, which is a significant increase from the 16.4 percent in 2010. From Gallup: The drop in the number of insured people is mainly the result of the [...]

Just when it seems like it couldn’t possibly getting any lower, Congress’ job approval rating drops to another historic low. According to Gallup only 10 percent of the country now approves of the job Congress is doing. From Gallup: While the recent signs of modest economic improvement have resulted in President Obama’s job approval numbers [...]

I know that because of the large percentage of federal employees, lobbyists and other factors about the nature of government contracting that the District of Columbia isn’t nearly as susceptible to an economic downturn as the rest of the country. But I still find these numbers from Gallup on economic confidence shocking. According to their [...]

President Obama came into office promising a new age of cooperation and an end to partisan division. That promise has been an absolute and complete failure. According to Gallup Obama has been a historically polarizing figure in his three years in office, with a massive gap between his support from Republican and Democrats. By a [...]

Since President Obama took office the percentage of uninsured people in America has been steadily raising and has now reached a new high. From Gallup: This rise in the number of uninsured is for the most part not the fault of the Obama administration. It is primarily the result of long term trends, rising health [...]

Just when it seemed almost mathematically impossible for Congress to get any more unpopular, it manages to sink again to an incredible new low. Congress’s job approval rating is the lowest it has ever been since Gallup started asking the question back in 1974. From Gallup: Congress is really unpopular, but this is historically terrible. [...]

Is this the worst Congress in our lifetimes?  The public now gives Congress its worst performance rating in the 20 years in which pollsters have been asking the question. From the Wall Street Journal: This particular Congress ranks as one of the worst – ever. In the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, 42% of [...]

The public’s ranking of the honesty and ethics of members of Congress is at the lowest level it has ever been according to Gallup’s polling. While Congress has never been looked on too kindly, the level of distrust the American people now feel towards members of Congress is unprecedented. Just how bad is the American [...]

The overall level of popular support for the Occupy Wall Street movement has remained basically unchanged since last month according to Gallup. What I find most interesting about the poll is that the “neither” number has remained so high even after a month of significant media coverage. It is a reminder that even though the [...]

What the American people are most concerned about are jobs and the economy. What the American people are only barely concerned about is the federal budget deficit. From Gallup: An overwhelming 66 percent of the country thinks unemployment or the economy  is the most important problem facing the country right now. That compares to the [...]