Opinion Research Corporation

by Mark Silva DENVER -- At the start of the Democratic convention, a new national poll portrays a dead heat between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. Both draw the support of 47 percent of those surveyed by CNN......

by Mark Silva ST. PAUL - On this day when Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol and her surprise teenage pregnancy have overshadowed the opening of the Republican National Convention - we cannot make this stuff up - it's worth noting that......

by Mark Silva ST. PAUL, Minn. - Mom shot Bambi. That family photo of Sarah Palin back at college wearing the T-shirt - "I may be broke, but I'm not flat busted" - is only one of many that have......

by Mark Silva ST. PAUL, Minn. - The 'bounce'' is gone. So says a new CNN/Opinion Research poll released just now. With a survey of voters taken Friday through today, the results show that 49 percent said they support the......

by Mark Silva and updated. Follow the bouncing polls. Some say bounce, some say no bounce. Both Barack Obama and John McCain got bounces out of their presidential nominating conventions, according to the results of the Gallup Poll's daily track.......

by Mark Silva It's a battle. In the battlegrounds. Forgot those national polls that portray a dead heat in the contest between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. Polls in some of the most heavily contested states are showing......

by Mark Silva As pollsters start attempting to gauge public sentiment about the mortgage debt bailout that the Bush administration is proposing, the $700-billion question is the big one. A new survey from CNN and Opinion Research doesn't quite get......

by Mark Silva People appear to have at least a couple of worries about the economic crisis unfolding: One, that it will get worse if the government does not take action to address the problems, and two, the people who......

by Mark Silva In a fast scientific take on the Joe Biden-Sarah Palin debate, a survey of 611 adults who watched it, more said Biden won the debate but many more said Palin did better than they expected. The survey......

by Mark Silva Polls conducted in several states that President Bush carried in 2004 show Republican presidential nominee John McCain "struggling'' with his Democratic rival, according to a report this morning from Time magazine, CNN and Opinion Research...

by Mark Silva On that question of who's "ready to lead'' - as John McCain maintains he is and insists that Barack Obama is not - the answer, for many voters, may lie more with vision than with experience. By......

by Mark Silva As President-elect Barack Obama sets about organizing a Cabinet - with names such as Hillary Clinton hanging in the air - most Americans appear confident that he will get it right. Among Americans surveyed last week by......