Tomorrow looks like it's going to be a bad day for Rick Santorum, but Mitt Romney might have a tough couple months with America's ladies. Here's today's polls and why they matter.
After the Republican primary's many debates and many gaffes, Mitt Romney is a weaker candidate against President Obama. Obama is ahead in three important swing states, and way more personally popular. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Two polls show the 2012 election campaign in a curious moment: the candidates are talking about one thing few voters noticed -- who's more like an Etch A Sketch -- and not talking about one thing voters are upset about, the Afghanistan war. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Most Americans think Obamacare is unconstitutional, and this feeling appears to be about principle -- a plurality say the law has had no effect on their lives. But even if they don't like President Obama's most famous legislation, they like him more than Mitt Romney. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Mitt Romney's campaign has started a new blog to humanize him, but he still has some work to do in Virginia. Newt Gingrich has that genre locked down, but he might consider working on another: cute Callista photos. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Romney is leading Santorum in Illinois, but will the underdog outperform his polls again? Meanwhile, more Americans approve of the job Obama's doing, but a majority wants health care reform killed by the Supreme Court.
President Obama's reelection team was quick to conjure the horror of a Mitt Romney victory in November in an email to supporters Tuesday, but maybe they jumped the gun. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
President Obama opened a wide lead over Mitt Romney in the last few weeks, but three polls show Romney now beating Obama in the 2012 election. But if you write about that on Facebook, it could cost you friends. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
We all know that if Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich want to be the Republican presidential nominee, they have to win more states. But they also have to win by large margins.
As Rick Santorum's slipped a little in Ohio, he's slipped a lot nationally. And while he and Mitt Romney continue to tear each other down, they're not hurting President Obama -- he's polling even with an unnamed Republican candidate in Georgia. Here's our guide to today's polls and which ones matter:
The states voting in the next few days are supposed to be less friendly turf for Mitt Romney, but polls show he's doing not too bad. Meanwhile Newt Gingrich, who's been aiming to own the South on Super Tuesday, has a long way to climb and not much time to do it.
President Obama hasn't been cool on college campuses for months, so you could hardly expect young people to be excited to vote for the so-four-years-ago president. Poll numbers showing a 28 percentage point drop in enthusiasm among Democrats under 30 should alarm Obama's reelection campaign.
RIck Santorum and Mitt Romney are polling so close in Michigan that some are predicting a Bush vs. Gore situation, with one winning the popular vote and the other winning the most delegates.
Mitt Romney's argument for why he'd be a better president than Barack Obama is that he'd be a better manager of the economy, but a new poll finds that a majority of Americans think at least one Obama economic policy worked.
With less than a week to go before the Michigan primary, Rick Santorum is polling just ahead of Mitt Romney, but Romney is crushing him with people who've already voted absentee. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush? Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Rick Santorum got a lot of applause railing against the Obama administration over whether religious institutions should have to offer health insurance that covers birth control. But applause aside, even Republicans are on the president's side. Here's our guide to today's polls and which ones matter.
The emerging consensus is that Rick Santorum is the biggest threat yet to Mitt Romney. They have similar strengths, but Romney has many of Santorum's weaknesses, only weaker.
Tuesday night's elections offer concrete evidence for polls showing Republican voters are comparatively less enthusiastic about doing their Democratic duty this year.
Rick Santorum's poll numbers in the three states that vote Tuesday look so good they've got Mitt Romney attacking and Newt Gingrich pre-conceding. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Mitt Romney is way ahead of Newt Gingrich in several of the states that vote this month, and Gingrich has lost his lead nationally, too, since he was beaten in the Florida primary. Here's our guide to today's polls and which ones matter.
What does Mitt Romney have to do to make Republican voters like him—hand out free treats?
The crowds at Newt Gingrich's rallies are big, loud, and happy, while Mitt Romney's events are more subdued. Yet polls seem to show the opposite -- that Romney's gaining while Gingrich has peaked. What gives? Our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Romney's unfavorability rating has jumped sharply in January -- and among independents, it's now 51 percent. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Only a week ago, it looked like Mitt Romney might make history by winning Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, which no candidate had ever done before. But now it looks like a different candidate will win each of the first three nomination contests, which has never happened before, either.
Newt Gingrich's political carrer was brought back from the dead in May, killed in June, resurrected again in November, killed again in January, and reanimated again Thursday, according to three of the six new polls of the South Carolina primary.
Newt Gingrich's "suicidal" "kamikaze" "jihad" against Mitt Romney looks like it wasn't so suicidal after all: Romney's lead in South Carolina has shrunk by half. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Newt Gingrich's Southern supporters are switching sides to Mitt Romney, new polls show. Even those who loved Newt best -- old people -- are now leaning toward Romney, who is crushing the other candidates nationally. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
In our guide to the day's polls and why they matter, it's a tired trope to complain that most Americans don't know anything about anything, but a new survey shows while most voters don't know much about the Republican candidates , it's women voters who are distinctly clueless.
With Mitt Romney way ahead in New Hampshire, the more interesting fight, NBC News' First Read says, is for second place -- Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are fighting for conservatives, while Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman are going for independents.
Mitt Romney is ahead in South Carolina, the state where the Not Romneys are supposed to have the best chance to stop him. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Voters see Obama as the most ideologically extreme 2012 candidate -- only Michele Bachmann thought of as almost as far away from Americans' own ideology as Obama. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Newt Gingrich's campaign theme song should be the Lady Sovereign song that goes "love me or hate me, it's still an obsession." He is both the sixth-most admired man in America and the most polarizing Republican presidential candidate. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
President Obama's job approval rating is inching upwards -- and while he loses to a generic Republican, voters are still skeptical of the current Republican lineup. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Polls now show Romney tied with anti-Romney candidate Newt Gingrich -- and that Gingrich's fans are starting to think Romney's not so bad after all.
It seems like a hundred polls are released every day now that the Iowa caucuses are less than a month away. Here's our guide to which ones matter and why.
It seems like a hundred polls are released every day now that the Iowa caucuses are less than a month away. Here's our guide to which ones matter and why.
It seems like a hundred polls are released every day now that the Iowa caucuses are less than a month away. Here's our guide to which ones matter and why.
It seems like a hundred polls are released every day now that the Iowa caucuses are less than a month away. Here's our guide to which ones matter and why.
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