Over the past three months, President Bush’s approval ratings increased in 11 of 15 states polled by SurveyUSA. His Net Job Approval, calculated by subtracting disapproval from approval,  increased 13 points in Virginia between November and January, from Minus 32 to Minus 19.  In Ohio, Net Job Approval fell from Minus 29 to Minus 34. [...]

Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, who will give the Democratic response to President Bush’s State of the Union address next week, today has a 64% approval rating, a 32% disapproval rating, and a Net Job Approval of Plus 32 in her home state. Research conducted for KCTV-TV Kansas City and KWCH-TV Wichita. Full results are here.

From Professor Charles Franklin, of the University of Wisconsin, publishing at www.pollster.com, the following graphic illustrates how far from perfect each of the  pollsters who worked the South Carolina Republican Primary were. A perfect pollster performance would be at the intersection of the horizontal and vertical lines on this target. Only SurveyUSA, of the polling [...]

In Virginia, Democratic Governor Tim Kaine today has a 51% approval rating, a 43% disapproval rating, and a Net Job Approval of Plus 8, the lowest of his two years in office. Kaine’s previous low was a Plus 14 in July of 2006. Meantime, President Bush today has a 39% approval rating, a 58% disapproval [...]

24 polling firms have polled one or more of the 7 Presiential Primaries and Caucuses to date in 2008. Here’s how the pollsters stack-up, ranked from smallest average error to largest average error (where smaller error is better, and zero is perfect). Additional detail, and caveats, on the jump …

Massachusetts voters would choose their former governor if the state’s Republican primary election were held today. SurveyUSA’s latest exclusive polling for WBZ-TV in Boston shows Romney would take 48% of the vote; John McCain would get 34%. No other candidate gets more than 8%. Both Republicans and unaffiliated voters can vote in the Republican primary [...]

As the GOP campaigns begin to move full-time into South Carolina, site of Saturday’s Republican Presidential Preference Primary, we’ve noticed a shift in what voters say should be the top issue for the next President. Ten days ago, our polling showed immigration was the most important issue, according to 26% of voters. 22% said it [...]

One year into her six-year term as United States Senator, Missouri’s Claire McCaskill has a 49% approval rating, a 43% disapproval rating, and a Net Job Approval of Plus 6. Over twelve months of tracking, McCaskill’s Net Job Approval has ranged between Plus 15 and Plus 2. By comparison, Missouri’s other United States Senator, Republican [...]

In the ten weeks that elapsed between SurveyUSA’s first North Carolina polling and our most recent polling, released Monday, Rudy Giuliani lost two-thirds of his support, falling from an 11-point lead over Fred Thompson to being tied with Mitt Romney, 17 points behind John McCain and Mike Huckabee, who today are tied for the lead [...]

As the Writers Guild of America’s strike enters its tenth week, SurveyUSA’s polling for KABC-TV in Los Angeles show that while support there for the writers has dipped — from 69% shortly after the strike began to 57% today — support for the studios’ position remains unchanged at 8%. Meanwhile, a majority of Los Angeles [...]