Mar 11 2010

What Americans Deserve

Today I had the honor of addressing BET’s first ever “Leading Women Summit” in Washington, DC. The Summit brought together artists, community activists, media representatives and professional women from across the country to work on finding solutions to some of the most pressing problems facing the African American community. I welcomed the opportunity to participate [...]

Jan 3 2010

Americans Deserting Democratic Party

Scott Rasmussen finds that the number of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats has fallen to the lowest level recorded in seven years of tracking by Rasmussen Reports, down six percent since the November 2008 elections. Democrats and Republicans are now in a virtual dead heat. And this is American adults, not likely voters:

There [...]

Aug 27 2009

Everybody Get His Camera Ready

In today’s Gallup daily tracking poll (three-day rolling average) — Gallup! — President Barack H. Obama now sits on a job-approval of a bare 50%, having plummeted from 69% approval on January 22-24 (released on January 25th), a few days after he was inaugurated. He has dropped 19 points in 214 days of tracking-poll [...]

Jun 21 2009

Dueling Polls on Health Care

The New York Times trumpets its own CBS/NYT poll which, it says, shows “Wide Support for Government-Run Health.”

Americans overwhelmingly support substantial changes to the health care system and are strongly behind one of the most contentious proposals Congress is considering, a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers, according to the latest New York [...]