New York Governor David Paterson finishes his first full month in office with a 55% approval rating, a 28% disapproval rating, and an overall Net Job Approval of Plus 27.
Paterson, who took office on March 17 in the wake of Eliot Spitzer’s resignation, is viewed favorably across most demographic groups, with two notable exceptions: […]

President George W. Bush; Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear; US Senators Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning. What do all four of these men have in common this month?
None of them has a positive approval rating in Kentucky.
It’s happened just once before, in November of 2007, when Ernie Fletcher was serving his final month as Kentucky’s governor […]

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, elected in 2006, is now at his lowest-ever level of job approval.
Patrick today has a 41% approval rating and a 56% disapproval rating, combining to create a Minus 15 Net Job Approval.
One month ago, Patrick was at Minus 1; two months ago, at Plus 13. Just after taking office in January […]

Pollster.com’s Charles Franklin, U Wisconsin, has posted the following graphic that helps visualize pollster error in the Pennsylvania Democratic Primary, graphed from smallest, at the bottom, to largest, at the top. Click the graphic to access the original source material from Pollster.com.

Additional SurveyUSA Pollster Report Cards have also been posted, here.

UPDATED 10:30 PM ET 04/23/08 to include bullseye graphic from Pollster.com.
10 competing opinion pollsters released data in the final 3 days before votes were counted in Tuesday’s Pensylvania Democratic Primary.
With 99.51% of the vote counted, Hillary Clinton has a 9.2 percentage point margin of victory. When those numbers are fed into SurveyUSA’s Pollster Report Card, […]

Two hours until votes are counted in Pennsylvania, SurveyUSA has the results of a just-conducted nationwide poll that says 55% of Americans say Clinton should remain in the race, even if she should lose in Pennsylvania.

Among Democrats, 59% say Clinton should remain in the race if she loses the Keystone State; 39% say she should […]

SurveyUSA research conducted April 11-13, while Iowa Governor Chet Culver was visiting Iowa National Guard troops in Kosovo, shows the governor’s approval rating has fallen to a new low.
Culver today has a 43% approval rating and a 50% disapproval rating, for a Net Job Approval of Minus 7, his lowest since taking office in […]

California’s two United States Senators today are at or near their lowest approval ratings in nearly three years of monthly SurveyUSA tracking.
Dianne Feinstein today has a 48% approval rating and a 43% disapproval rating, for a Net Job Approval of Plus 5, her lowest since tracking began in May of 2005. Three months ago, […]

With 18 hours to go before Pennsylvanians start casting their votes, Hillary Clinton is six points ahead of Barack Obama in this, SurveyUSA’s fifth and final tracking poll conducted exclusively for our PA media clients KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, WHP-TV in Harrisburg, and WNEP-TV in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
Full results and analysis are here; some selected […]

SurveyUSA’s first November general election poll conducted of likely voters shows John McCain losing to either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in Washington state, but by different margins.
Obama beats McCain by 13 points if the election were today, 53% to 40%.
Clinton beats McCain by 3 points today, 48% to 45%.

Among men: Obama leads McCain by […]