91%

Percentage of Americans who support background checks for all gun buyers, according to a Quinnipiac University poll.

A new poll from Gallup found that more Alabamians think of themselves as “conservative” than residents of any other state. This puts the state in the running for first in hypocrisy, since it is also the tenth biggest recipient of federal spending among the states, versus its tax receipts. (The District of Columbia was the [...]

This new poll from Bloomberg is a real outlier — most surveys show the presidential race to be neck and neck at this early stage. Caveats all around, but of interest nonetheless:

Hey, when I’m wrong, I’m wrong. And I was wrong late last year when I predicted that Pres. Obama’s poll numbers would be tanking into the 30s in mid-January — so, now — primarily because he made a deal with Republican, who were threatening hissy fits if he did not agree to extend tax breaks [...]