Public opinion polls during WWII

Percent approving of the way FDR was doing his job: never below 65%.

Percent believing Allies winning: after November 1942, never below 75%.

Percent willing to make peace with Hitler: never above 25%.

Political Arithmetik

This blogger graphs polls and trends over time. Quite instructive.

Creative use of polling

TPM points out that Andrea Mitchell last night claimed that Pelosi's ratings were has bad as Hastert's had been before the elections.

Unfortunately, that's not quite true. Pelosi's job approval rating is around 53% at the moment: last October, Hastert only had 31% who said he should keep his post.

Florida Political Polls

This is sort of related to my post a few weeks back about how popular our new Governor is. Well, Quinnipiac has released a new poll about the Governor, the legislature, and our two Senators: Bill Nelson and Mel Martinez.

Astoundingly, Crists numbers went up: 73-9 approval rating, stratospheric according to Quinnipiac.

But here's another interesting thing: Both Democrats and Republicans give strongly favorable ratings to Crist, the legislature, and Nelson (D) and Martinez (R).

How often do you see that?