We have a motto at We Ask America Polls: The Numbers are the Numbers. That means that if the audience we dial meets our standards, we don’t second-guess the results–even if the numbers buck conventional wisdom. That’s the situation we face with our first Florida poll that...

On a tumultuous day in Republican politics, Newt Gingrich surged ahead in our latest South Carolina tracking poll. Whether it holds or not is anyone’s guess as upheaval prevails in the Palmetto State. In an explosive day in GOP presidential politics, one candidate — Rick Perry...

Mitt Romney is close to closing the deal. After laying back early on while the competition carved themselves up, Romney finally flexed his bankroll in Iowa and won in a caucus squeaker. Then, he fulfilled the high expectations that experts bestowed on his campaign in New Hampshire. Since then,...

According to Conventional Wisdom, New Hampshire’s primary tonight (which we skipped to avoid the crowd and concentrate on other areas) will provide GOP frontrunner-in-waiting, Mitt Romney, with his second straight win and a chance to begin fulfilling pundits’ prophecies pointing to...

Our last presidential tracking poll in Iowa mirrors what most others are showing in their polling: Mitt Romney may be finally breaking through the clutter. And while Romney’s detractors will undoubtedly snort in derision about his lackluster numbers in the head-to-head category, it gets...

It’s becoming all too predictable. As soon as a GOP presidential candidate gains traction in Iowa, the bright lights hit him/her and they melt down like a cheap candle. The latest to follow the pattern is, of course, Newt Gingrich. Just 15 days ago, we measured Newt with a robust 30 percent....

As the weight of accusations of harassment and infidelity (and/or serving as a human ATM for female friends) piled up for Herman Cain, his decision to pull the plug on his presidential campaign was no surprise. But what would it mean for the field of GOP hopefuls in Iowa? Not that much, as it...

Our last Iowa test came just after Herman Cain‘s past problems surfaced, but before many details or additional accusers were exposed. Since then, most of the other Republican candidates have plodded through the Hawkeyes’ cornfields and watched as Newt Gingrich quietly ascended back...

GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain certainly has had better weeks.  Just as he gained traction and broke through the Republican candidate clutter, news surfaced of a decade-old sexual harassment problem. While we still don’t know the details, Cain and his campaign staff flubbed their...

NOTE: We Ask America was commissioned by Fox Chicago News to conduct this poll. The following is being published here with their permission. For those of you who have just awoken from a long coma, here’s a newsflash: things aren’t going so well in America these days, and...

“Oh, there’s nothing halfway about the Iowa way to treat you, When we treat you which we may not do at all. There’s an Iowa kind of special chip-on-the-shoulder attitude. We’ve never been without that we recall.” –”Iowa Stubborn” from The...

Earlier this year, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) helped embed that state on the watch list of most national political pundits when he took on public-employee unions. More accurately, it was HOW he did it that seemed to make  the difference. In what he now admits was a brash and...

Independence Day marks the beginning of a new season for the polling trolls at We Ask America, and we begin with a statewide approval poll on President Barack Obama in his home state (and ours), Illinois. Around here, any approval poll of the president has as it’s main focus one primary...

We continue our series on the approval ratings of Midwest governors with Missouri’s Jay Nixon…plus an added bonus: Senator Claire McCaskill. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon (D) was elected in 2008 after serving as a pro-active Attorney General. As AG, Nixon was knee deep in a...

We continue our series on the approval ratings of Midwest governors with Iowa’s Terry Branstad. Terry Branstad doesn’t really fit the mold of being a “new” governor. Branstad previously served as governor of Iowa from 1982 through 1998, and got the itch to do it again...

We continue our series on the approval ratings of Midwest governors with Wisconsin’s Scott Walker. As everyone who follows politics knows, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker has been making some bold moves. His budget reforms that–among other things–targeted public unions...

We continue our series on the approval ratings of Midwestern governors with Ohio’s John Kasich. No one has ever called Republican Ohio governor John Kasich a shrinking violet. Throughout his career as a state senator, congressman, presidential candidate, investment banker,...

Today we kick off a new series of polls measuring the current approve/disapprove ratings for a slew of Midwest governors. All but two that we’ll poll were newly crowned in the recent mid-term elections. We’ll begin with Illinois’ Pat Quinn (D). Illinois Democrat Pat...

Yeah, we know. It’s too early to be polling in Iowa for Republican presidential caucuses. There are a bevy of potential candidates–too many to conveniently poll using automated technology. Pockets of snow still dot Midwestern corn fields–not exactly the time of year when...

Last week’s poll on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s budget reforms set off a firestorm of responses. Clearly, emotions and opinions are volatile surrounding the bold moves made by Walker, and public opinions on the issues run into the extremes. A number of our readers sent great...