Sure, it’s early, and yes, a lot will change, but in an preview of the 2012 Presidential election, cell phone voters (those without a home telephone, typically undercounted in opinion polls), vote sufficiently Democrat to keep Mitt Romney to just a single-digit lead over Barack Obama, and, for the moment, cause Obama to defeat Newt […]

A new SurveyUSA poll of the state of California shows 4:3 support for a drive to recall all 12 members of the Super Committee of the US Congress, following that Committee’s failure to reach any agreement on how to balance the federal budget. Support for a “throw-the-bums-out” recall of the 6 Democrats and 6 […]

SurveyUSA asked voters in two blue states and one red state whether their opinion of Vice President Joe Biden was favorable or unfavorable. Then, SurveyUSA asked the same voters whether their opinion of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was favorable or unfavorable? Biden has a negative favorability in both red and blue states. Clinton has […]

SurveyUSA analyzes the extent to which 33 active public opinion pollsters work to include cell-phone respondents, and proactively disclose in real-time how many cell respondents they have interviewed, and the degree to which those cell respondents differ from landline (home-phone) respondents. If, as research by Marist College , the Pew Research Center, and SurveyUSA finds, […]

The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion is the only other pollster, besides SurveyUSA, to include routinely in its poll releases, the difference between cell-phone respondents and home-phone respondents. This permits an analysis of how SurveyUSA and Marist polls compare to the many polls still being released, by other research companies, with no cell-phone respondents.

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In a nationwide election for President today, 11/16/11, incumbent Democrat Barack Obama narrowly edges Republican challenger Mitt Romney, 46% to 44%, according to a SurveyUSA poll  of 1,000 registered voters. If the survey only includes landline (home-phone) respondents, Romney wins.Among respondents who use a home telephone (72% of registered voters), Romney leads by 6 points.
Among respondents […]

Immediately after New York City police cleared Occupy Wall Street protestors from Zuccotti Park, SurveyUSA asked residents of the 5 boroughs their reaction, in an exclusive Eyewitness News Poll conducted for WABC-TV. Complete poll results and crosstabs here.

47% agree with the decision to remove the protestors; 49% disagree.
43% say protestors should be allowed to return, […]

Cell-phone respondents are significantly more likely to vote for a Democratic candidate for President than are home-phone respondents, SurveyUSA research continues to show.

In a survey of Minnesotans conducted for KSTP-TV in Minneapolis St Paul, SurveyUSA found a 22-point difference, on average, between how home-phone and cell-phone respondents look at the issue. n=543 registered voters, […]

Cell-phone respondents are significantly more likely to vote for a Democratic candidate for President than are home-phone respondents, SurveyUSA research continues to show.

In a survey of Pennsylvanians conducted for KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, SurveyUSA found a 10-point difference between how home-phone and cell-phone respondents look at the issue. n=800, 24% are cell-phone respondents. Poll released […]

SurveyUSA looks at the two most likely Republican nominees, alone and paired as a Republican ticket, running against the existing Democratic ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and a new Democratic ticket of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Here is the progression of match-ups, and the results:
• Obama 50%
• Romney 39%
• Democrat by 11 points.
• Obama 56%
• Gingrich 32%
• Democrat […]