Joe approval for President compared to Congress

I thought this graph of averages was very interesting because of the constant relationship of lower percent approval for congress as compared to percent approval for president, but also because there is a smaller difference between the two when there was a change in the president's party affiliation. From Carter to Reagan there was a 6 point drop, and then after Reagan a 16 point increase, when Clinton came into office, a 12 point drop, and then G.W. Bush, an 11 point drop, and a 15 point rise to democratic president Obama. Percent Congressional approval goes up in these change in party affiliation years.

Life Rankings among different age groups

I found this graph very interesting people ages 15-24 rated their lives as comfortable as those ages 35-44 and 45-54, also (not surprisingly) the 55 and older population had both the worst possible life rating and the best at 7.12 out of 10.

I found this graph to be interesting because while from 1991 the US population's confidence in newspapers dropped from 39% to 25%, our confidence in tv news decreasing from 46% to 22%, what is most interesting is about half way through 2007 the confidence for both newspapers and tv news were about equal in percentage, and now currently Newspapers hold higher confidence than do tv news (contrasting from the earlier trends).

U.S. Consumer Spending

http://www.gallup.com/poll/143288/Consumers-September-Spending-Matches-2010-Low.aspx


I thought this was a very interesting poll because it shows the U.S.'s economic breakdown, literally. 2010 has seen a significant drop in consumer spending since January-September 2008.