Even though there was a lot of hyperventilating about how the original rule requiring employers to provide insurance coverage for contraceptives as part of free preventive care might hurt President Obama politically, the reality is the vast majority of the country supports the idea, even before the “accommodation” that garnered more support.

Since Rick Santorum’s triple win last week the state of the Republican primary has changed dramatically. In the past 24 hours four major national polls have found Rick Santorum slightly leading or effectively tied with Mitt Romney. In addition the polls found Newt Gingrich’s support has falling significantly since his January peak.

There are now two more polls, in addition to the two polls released last weekend, showing that Newt Gingrich has the lead in the Iowa Caucus. A third poll shows Iowa voters now believe Gingrich is slightly more electable than Mitt Romney.

It is a depressing statement on the state of our current democracy that any easily implemented policy change like moving cannabis from schedule I to schedule III so it can be legally prescribed by a doctor still hasn’t happened despite poll after poll showing the American public overwhelmingly supports the change.

Gingrich has been slowly but steadily moving up in the national polls over the past several weeks since Rick Perry’s support collapsed, but this is the first major national poll to finally put him in what I would consider a top tier status. Gingrich’s campaign has been mostly under the radar so far, but now that his poll numbers are up enough, he should start facing increased scrutiny, and there is a lot of Gingrich’s career to scrutinize.

Congress’ job approval rating had been hovering in the low single digits for months, but it managed to drop to only 9 percent in the newest CBS News/New York Time poll. An overwhelming 84 percent of Americans don’t approve of the job Congress is currently doing.

Two new national polls both find that Congress’ job approval rating has reached a new historic low. Americans want Congress to fix the unemployment problem and the economy, but Congress is fixated on deficit hysteria. No wonder more people want to “occupy” public squares and demand change

This is by far one of the ugliest polls I’ve seen for President Obama in a very long time. The American people overwhelmingly think Obama has failed to make real progress on fixing the economy. From CBS News: Sixty-nine percent say the president has not made real progress on the economy, which voters overwhelmingly cite [...]

Trust in the federal government has now reached an all time record low according to CNN’s polling. The previous low was set back in 1994. And the reasons have a lot to do with years of 9 percent unemployment, with no major recovery in sight.

The fact that Democrats manage to make themselves the less unpopular of the two major parties should be good political news, but in two special Congressional elections this week the Democratic candidates significantly underperformed. It seems that the bad economy and extreme gridlock is making everyone in Washington unpopular, particularly the Congressional Republicans.