The Polling Report [2.3.13]
NATIONAL–PRESIDENTIAL APPROVAL–ABC News-Washington Post: President Obama “has advanced to his highest personal popularity since his first year in office, and Americans who’ve formed an opinion of his second inaugural address last week broadly approve of it.”
60% of Americans now express a favorable opinion of Obama overall, up 10 points since last summer, in the heat of the presidential race.
IOWA–PRESIDENT–DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY–Harper Polling: Hillary Clinton 65, Joe Biden 14, Andrew Cuomo 4, Not Sure 17.
IOWA–PRESIDENT–REPUBLICAN PRIMARY–Harper Polling: Marco Rubio 27, Paul Ryan 18, Rick Santorum 14, Rand Paul 13, Chris Christie 12, Scott Walker 3, Not Sure 15
TEXAS–PRESIDENT–Public Policy Polling: Hillary Clinton 46, Marco Rubio 45; Clinton 45, Chris Christie 43; Clinton 50, Rick Perry 42
[Clinton] has a +7 favorability rating (50/43) with Texas voters and strong support among moderate voters—72% view her favorably, and she crushes her potential GOP opponents among this voting group.
“If Clinton is the 2016 nominee, she could conceivably expand the electoral map for Democrats in deep-red Texas,” said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling.
TEXAS–PRESIDENT–REPUBLICAN PRIMARY–Public Policy Polling: Rubio 21, Mike Huckabee 14, Rand Paul 13, Jeb Bush 11, Paul Ryan 11, Christie 9, Bobby Jindal 4, Perry 4, Susanna Martinez 2.
WEST VIRGINIA–SENATOR–Harper Polling: Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R) 50, Rep. Nick Rahall (D) 32; Capito 53, former Sen. Carte Goodwin (D) 19—STRONG GOP (PICKUP)
NEW JERSEY–SENATOR–DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY–Quinnipiac: Newark Mayor Cory Booker 51, Sen. Frank Lautenberg 30.
NEW JERSEY–SENATOR–DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY–Merriman River poll: Booker 48, Lautenberg 21
VIRGINIA–GOVERNOR–Christopher Newport University: Terry McAuliffe (D) 31, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R), 30.
VIRGINIA–GOVERNOR–Roanoke College: Cuccinelli 33, McAuliffe 26.
In a three way race, Cuccinelli leads with 25%, followed by McAuliffe at 19% and Bill Bolling (I) at 12%.
A three-way race is even tighter with McAuliffe and Cuccinelli tied at 27% and possible independent candidate Bill Bolling (I) way back at 9%.
IOWA–SENATOR–REPUBLICAN PRIMARY–Harper Polling: Teabagger Rep. Steve King (R) 35, Rep. Tom Latham (R) 22, Bob Vander Plaats 20 and Brad Zaun 3.
IOWA–SENATOR–DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY–Harper Polling: Rep. Bruce Braley (D) 50%. The rest of the anonymous field does not get above 4%, though there is room for another candidate as 43% is “not sure.”
IOWA–SENATOR–Harper Polling: Latham (R) 36, Braley 33; Braley 39, King 34; Braley 41, Vander Platts 34.
ALASKA–SENATOR–Harper Polling: Sen. Mark Begich (D) 44, Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell (R) 34; Begich 52, former 2010 candidate and teabagger Joe Miller (R) 29; Begich 47, idiot half term teabagging Governor and laughingstock of a Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin 40
There were a couple of polls out of Massachusetts showing former Senator Scott Brown leading by 3 points in the special election matchup over Congressman Ed Markey. However, now Brown has bowed out. So the only relevance that poll has now is as to the Democratic Primary:
MASSACHUSETTS–SENATOR–Public Policy Polling: Markey 52, Congressman Steve Lynch (a more conservative Dem) 19
