Missouri Repbulican Governor Matt Blunt’s job approval is 42% today. Complete interactive tracking graphs here. Blunt will not seek re-election when his first term ends this year.

     Click on this image from SurveyUSA Ohio client WHIO-TV to see the complete results.

SurveyUSA’s Ohio clients — WCMH-TV Columbus, WCPO-TV Cincinnati, WKYC-TV Cleveland and WHIO-TV Dayton – will release today results of SurveyUSA’s newest Democratic Primary poll from the Buckeye State, just hours before the two candidates face-off in Cleveland. Clinton leads by 22 points among respondents who tell SurveyUSA they have already voted, but …

The ‘Ayes’ of Texas Are Upon Him: Obama Now Atop Clinton — In a Democratic Primary in Texas today, 02/25/08, 8 days till votes are counted, Barack Obama moves ever-so-slightly ahead of Hillary Clinton, though at the edge of the margin of sampling error, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for KTRK-TV Houston, KTVT-TV Dallas [...]

SurveyUSA’s Texas clients, KTRK-TV Houston, KTVT-TV Dallas and KRLD-AM radio Dallas, will release results of SurveyUSA’s newest Democratic Primary poll tonight at 11 pm ET, 10 pm CT. 1 in 4 Democratic primary voters have already voted. But for whom? Stay tuned …

Alabama and South Carolina homeowners are behind in their mortgage payments more than other states polled by SurveyUSA. Residents of Kansas are the least likely to be behind on their mortgage. States that voted for Republican George W. Bush in 2004 are shown in red. States that voted for Democrat John Kerry in 2004 are [...]

In Missouri, where the mayor of Kirkwood was shot and 6 others killed by a gunman this month, 43% say there should be tougher gun laws. Of 14 states polled by SurveyUSA, this is the smallest percentage who think tougher gun laws are needed. By comparison, 70% in New York, 66% in Massachusetts, 62% in [...]

More than 40% of households in Wisconsin, Missouri, Ohio, Iowa and Minnesota are in debt, according to just completed SurveyUSA polling of 600 adults in each of 14 states. Just 19% in Ohio say they are getting ahead, lowest of any of the 14 states surveyed. By contrast, 31% in Oregon are getting ahead. States [...]

We’ve looked at several states recently where Barack Obama out-performs Hillary Clinton when matched against John McCain in November; we’ll look later today at some states where the reverse is true. Right now, a look at Alabama and California, where the results of the November election today seem little in doubt, regardless of which Democrat [...]

Al Gore won Oregon in 2000 by 6,765 votes. With that one asterisk noted, Oregon has been reliably “blue” since 1988, when it was one of the nine states that voted for Michael Dukakis. Before 1988, however, Oregon was reliably red, voting for Republicans in every election from 1948 through 1984, with the sole exception [...]