Hear our analysis of the president’s State of the Union address on The Wall Street Journal’s political webcast, and see our summary of public opinion heading into the event for ABCNews.com here. Gary Langer also discussed the SOTU on Public Radio International’s “To the Point” with Warren Olney; he appeared on “To the Point” earlier in the month to discuss the Iowa caucuses and the state of the presidential election, here. Our polling for ABC News this month has been picked up by other news organizations including PBS, The Atlantic and USA Today, here and here.

See Gary Langer’s discussion of the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll on the 2012 election on ABC’s “Topline” with Amy Walter and Rick Klein. Pickup of the poll beyond ABC and the Post included pieces by RealClearPolitics, Investors.com, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, theHouston Chronicle and many others, as far afield as the Times of India.

Gary Langer was a guest today on Warren Olney’s “To the Point” program on Public Radio International, participating in a segment titled “Has Obama Taken a Combative New Turn?” Fellow guests included Binyamin Appelbaum of The New York Times, author Ron Suskind, Byron York of the Washington Examiner and Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia.

Research Analyst Gregory Holyk has been published in a pair of peer-reviewed academic journals this summer, contributing the article “Paper Tiger: Chinese Soft Power in East Asia” to the summer 2011 issue of Political Science Quarterly, and “Individual-Level Predictors of Leader and Public Support for the Use of Force” to the summer 2011 issue of the International Journal of Public Opinion Research. Holyk also contributed a chapter on “Asian Perceptions of American Soft Power,” co-authored with Marshall Bouton, to an edited volume entitled “Public Diplomacy and Soft Power in East Asia,” and a chapter to the “Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and Media,” co-authored with Doris Graber, on “The News Industry.” The edited volumes were published in March and June, respectively.

We’re quoted this week by Media Matters on misguided criticism of a recent CBS News poll, and by Markos Moulitsas in a misguided paean to robo-polls.

Gary Langer shared a news Emmy nomination today with a group of ABC News producers, analysts and correspondents responsible for “Vote 2010,” ABC’s 2010 election-night coverage. The nomination, for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story, is Langer’s ninth since 2004. Langer directed ABC’s election-night Analysis Desk, analyzing and reporting on exit poll results. The 2010 analysis team included Mollyann Brodie, Claudia Deane, Rich Morin, Patrick Moynihan, Julie Phelan, David Tully and Darya Isham.

Health Affairs magazine posted an item today covering the Washington, D.C., presentation of our survey of low-income Californians for Blue Shield of California Foundation (see item below). See also this commentary on our BSCF survey by Dr. Ricky Choi, a CCHC physician in Oakland, Ca., published July 21 on SFGate, the San Francisco Chronicle website.