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May 20, 2009
Anzalone Liszt Research
National Polling Summary

Welcome to the Anzalone Liszt Research National Polling Summary. For those of you that are receiving this for the first time, each week we will send you a summary of national public polls detailing key political environment measures as well as attitudes of voters on the pressing issues of the week. We hope that this summary will be helpful to you and your clients. Please feel free to share it widely by using the "forward email" button at the bottom and to offer comments on how to make it better. Something to check out in this issue is that in a Fox News poll over sixty percent said they are comfortable with Obama choosing the next Supreme Court Justice and similarly in a CBS poll fifty-five percent said that they have confidence Obama will nominate a good justice. Enjoy, John Anzalone

Issues in the News

Comfort Level of Obama Choosing Next Supreme Court Justice

Polling Firm	Date	Comfortable/ Have Confidence	Not Comfortable/ Uneasy	Unsure
FOX	5/13/09	60%	33%	7%
CBS	5/12/09	55%	35%	10%

FOX: How comfortable are you with Barack Obama selecting the next U.S. Supreme Court nominee? CBS: Do you have confidence that Barack Obama will nominate good justices to the Supreme Court, or are you uneasy about who he will choose?

Which of the following Best describes your view about whether the next Supreme Court justice is:

Gallup	Date	Essential	Good Idea	Doesn't Matter	Bad Idea
A woman	5/10/09	6%	26%	64%	3%
Hispanic	5/10/09	1%	21%	68%	8%
Black	5/10/09	1%	21%	74%	3%

C.I.A. Misled Pelosi

Polling Firm	Date	Very Likely	S'wht Likely	Not at All Likely	Very Unlikely	Unsure
Rasmussen	5/17/09	20%	23%	22%	19%	16%

Pelosi Job Rating

Polling Firm	Date	Approve	Disapprove	Unsure
CNN/ORC	5/15/09	39%	48%	12%
CNN/ORC	3/11/07	46%	30%	25%

Interpretation of the Second Amendment

Polling Firm	Date	No Restrictions on Gun Ownership	Some Restrictions on Gun Ownership	Only Citizen-Militias
CNN/ORC	5/15/09	23%	54%	21%

Roe v. Wade

Polling Firm	Date	Yes, Overturn	No, Don't Overturn
CNN/ORC	5/15/09	30%	68%

CNN/ORC: The 1973 Roe versus Wade decision established a woman's constitutional right to an abortion, at least in the first three months of pregnancy. Would you like to see the Supreme Court completely overturn its Roe versus Wade decision, or not?

Legality of Abortion

Polling Firm	Date	Legal Under Any	Legal Only Under Certain	Illegal In All
Gallup	5/10/09	22%	53%	23%
Gallup	5/11/08	28%	54%	17%
Gallup	5/13/07	26%	55%	18%

Gallup: Do you think abortions should be legal under any circumstances, legal only under certain circumstances, or illegal in all circumstances?

Pro-choice or Pro-life

Polling Firm	Date	Pro-Choice	Pro-Life	Unsure/ DK Terms
Gallup	5/10/09	42%	51%	5%
Gallup	5/11/08	50%	44%	4%
Gallup	5/13/07	49%	45%	4%

Health care costs v. Providing Health insurance for all

Polling Firm	Date	Keeping costs down/ Controlling Costs	Providing insurance/ Expanding Coverage	Unsure
Ipsos/ McClatchy	5/3/09	51%	42%	8%
CBS/ NY Times	4/5/09	40%	54%	6%

Ipsos/McClatch: On the topic of federal health care reform, some say that controlling costs should be the main emphasis. Others say that expanding coverage so that all Americans will have insurance should be the main emphasis. Which of these comes closest to your own personal opinion? CBS/Times: If you had to say, which do you think is a more serious problem right now: keeping health care costs down for average Americans, OR providing health insurance for Americans who do not have any insurance?

Paying taxes for all to have health insurance

Polling Firm	Date	Willing	Not willing	Unsure
CBS/ NY Times	4/5/09	57%	38%	5%

CBS/Times: Would you be willing or not willing to pay higher taxes so that all Americans have health insurance they can't lose, no matter what?

Same-Sex Marriage

Polling Firm	Date	Legal/ Support	Civil Unions	No Legal Recognition/ Illegal/ Oppose	Unsure
FOX	5/13/09	33%	33%	29%	5%
Quinnipiac	4/27/09	55%		38%	-
CBS/ NY Times	4/26/09	42%	25%	28%	5%

FOX: Do you believe gays and lesbians should be allowed to get legally married, allowed a legal partnership similar to but not called marriage, or should there be no legal recognition given to gay and lesbian relationships? Quinnipiac: Would you support or oppose a law in your state that would allow same-sex couples to get married? CBS/NY Times: Which comes closest to your view? Gay couples should be allowed to legally marry. OR, Gay couples should be allowed to form civil unions but not legally marry. Or, There should be no legal recognition of a gay couple's relationship.

Use of Harsh Interrogation Techniques Justified

Polling Firm	Date	S'times Justified/ Justified	Never Justified/ Not Justified	Depends	DK
CBS/NY Times	4/26/09	55%	28%	7%	17%
Gallup	4/25/09	55%	36%		9%

CBS/NY Times: Do you think it is sometimes justified to use waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation tactics to get information from a suspected terrorist, or are these tactics never justified? Gallup: Based on what you know or have read, do you think the use of harsh interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects was justified or not justified?

The Economy

Optimistic or Pessimistic about the state of the national economy

Polling Firm	Date	Optimistic	Pessimistic
Wash Post/ ABC	4/24/09	55%	42%
Wash Post/ ABC	2/22/09	48%	50%

Who do you trust more handling the economy?

Polling Firm	Date	Obama	Reps	Both	Neither
Wash Post/ ABC	4/24/09	61%	24%	2%	11%
Wash Post/ ABC	3/29/09	58%	25%	1%	14%
Wash Post/ ABC	2/22/09	61%	26%	1%	9%

The Nation's Economy

Polling Firm	Date	Getting Better	Getting Worse	Staying the Same
Gallup	5/17/09	36%	57%	18%
CBS	5/12/09	32%	23%	44%
CBS/ NY Times	4/26/09	26%	25%	48%
Wash Post/ ABC	3/29/09	27%	36%	36%

President Obama

President Obama's Popularity

Polling Firm	Date	Fav	Unfav	Und/ Neutral
CNN	4/26/09	69%	29%	2%
CBS/ NY Times	4/26/09	54%	18%	28%
Wash Post/ ABC	4/24/09	72%	26%	2%

President Obama's Job Rating

Polling Firm	Date	Positive/ Approve	Negative/ Disapprove	DK
Gallup	5/17/09	64%	28%	-
CNN/ORC	5/15/09	62%	35%	-
FOX	5/13/09	60%	30%	9%
Dem Corps.	5/12/09	59%	33%	-

President Obama's Job Rating on the Economy

Polling Firm	Date	Positive/ Approve	Negative/ Disapprove	DK
Dem Corps.	5/12/09	61%	37%	-
CBS/ NY Times	4/26/09	55%	24%	21%
Wash Post/ ABC	4/24/09	58%	38%	4%
Pew	4/21/09	60%	33%	-

President Obama's Job Rating on the National Security

Polling Firm	Date	Positive/ Approve	Negative/ Disapprove	DK
Dem Corps.	5/12/09	65%	30%	-

The Parties and Congress

Party Self Identification

Polling Firm	Date	Dems	Reps	Ind	Other
FOX	5/13/09	42%	30%	24%	4%
Dem Corps.	5/12/09	40%	32%	27%	-
CBS	5/12/09	35%	24%	41%	-

2010 Congressional Generic Ballot

Polling Firm	Date	Dems	Reps	Und/ Other	Refused
Dem Corps.	5/12/09	46%	44%	8%	2%
Rasmussen	5/10/09	39%	40%	5%	16%
Public Opinion Strategies (R)	4/21/09	41%	37%	-	21%

Congressional Job Rating

Polling Firm	Date	Positive/Approve	Negative/Disprove	DK
FOX	5/13/09	41%	49%	10%
Gallup	5/10/09	37%	57%	7%
CBS/ NY Times	4/26/09	28%	55%	17%

Congressional Democrats Job Rating

Polling Firm	Date	Pos/Approve	Neg/Disprove	DK
CNN/ORC	4/26/09	43%	53%	5%
Wash Post/ ABC	4/24/09	45%	49%	6%
FOX	4/23/09	50%	40%	10%
Diageo/ Hotline	3/29/09	48%	43%	10%

Congressional Republicans Job Rating

Polling Firm	Date	Pos/Approve	Neg/Disprove	DK
CNN/ORC	4/26/09	31%	65%	4%
Wash Post/ ABC	4/24/09	30%	64%	6%
FOX	4/23/09	36%	52%	12%
Diageo/ Hotline	3/29/09	30%	57%	13%

Who would do a better job with National Security?

Polling Firm	Date	Total Democrats	Total Republicans	DK
Dem Corps.	5/12/09	43%	41%	5%

United States Direction

Polling Firm	Date	Right Direction	Wrong Direction	No Opinion
Dem Corps.	5/12/09	44%	47%	-
CBS	5/12/09	45%	48%	6%
Ipsos/ McClatchy	5/3/09	55%	38%	7%
Wash Post/ ABC	4/24/09	50%	48%	2%

Issues in the News

Comfort Level of Obama Choosing Next Supreme Court Justice

Polling Firm

Date

Comfortable/ Have Confidence

Not Comfortable/ Uneasy

Unsure

FOX

5/13/09

60%

33%

7%

CBS

5/12/09

55%

35%

10%

FOX: How comfortable are you with Barack Obama selecting the next U.S. Supreme Court nominee? CBS: Do you have confidence that Barack Obama will nominate good justices to the Supreme Court, or are you uneasy about who he will choose?

Which of the following Best describes your view about whether the next Supreme Court justice is:

Gallup

Date

Essential

Good Idea

Doesn't Matter

Bad Idea

A woman

5/10/09

6%

26%

64%

3%

Hispanic

5/10/09

1%

21%

68%

8%

Black

5/10/09

1%

21%

74%

3%

C.I.A. Misled Pelosi

Polling Firm

Date

Very Likely

S'wht Likely

Not at All Likely

Very Unlikely

Unsure

Rasmussen

5/17/09

20%

23%

22%

19%

16%

Pelosi Job Rating

Polling Firm

Date

Approve

Disapprove

Unsure

CNN/ORC

5/15/09

39%

48%

12%

CNN/ORC

3/11/07

46%

30%

25%

Interpretation of the Second Amendment

Polling Firm

Date

No Restrictions on Gun Ownership

Some Restrictions on Gun Ownership

Only Citizen-Militias