A majority of Americans say they disapprove of the way Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi handled the Enhanced Interrogation Techniques debate. Rasmussen reports:

Last week, Pelosi attempted to respond to allegations that she learned of the use of waterboarding in September 2002 during a CIA briefing of congressional leaders. In her press conference, she asserted that the CIA misled her by denying that waterboarding was being used, even though government reports indicate it had been used on an al Qaeda terror suspect in the month prior to that briefing. The CIA responded and disputed her assertions that the agency misled her. Republican leaders have roundly criticized her remarks.| MORE ›

Good news for those of us who believe that Senator Harry Reid is extremely liberal and that the U.S. would be better off with somebody else as Senate Majority Leader:

Nearly half of Nevadans have had enough of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as the powerful Democrat heads into his re-election campaign, a new Las Vegas Review-Journal poll finds.| MORE ›

Hot Air notices the publication of a poll showing that 67% of Catholics approve of the job President Obama is currently doing. The conservative blog’s AllahPundit argues that this once again shows that many Catholics do not adhere to the Church’s basic teachings. Catholic readers of HA respond angrily to the poll, arguing that these ‘Catholics’ who approve of Obama are not Catholics at all.| MORE ›

If you wanted any more proof that’s it’s unwise to take a single political poll as gospel, I’d like to point you to the Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll that was just yesterday pondering whether Senator John McCain begining to gain a lead:

Is McCain making a move? The three-day average holds steady, but McCain outpolled Obama today, 48% to 47%.| MORE ›

When Senator Arlen Specter defected to the Democratic Party last week, he explained he did so because internal polling showed he would lose the GOP’s primary election to Congressman Pat Toomey, who challenged the fiscally liberal 79-year old for his seat.

The most recent polls among Republican voters had Specter trailing by 21%. Indeed, a significant gap.| MORE ›

Newsweek:

One of Obama’s lowest approval numbers comes in response to his federal budget, which includes a substantial deficit. Only 42 percent agree with Obama’s budget while 45 percent disapprove. One explanation might be in Americans’ thinking skeptically about individual issues.| MORE ›