Coverage of our latest ABC/Post favorability poll looking at the popularity of four tech giants – Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter – includes stories at AppleInsider, The Atlantic, Bloomberg’s Tech Blog, CNET, CNN, Huffington Post, MediaBistro, TechNewsWorld and ZDNet.

Hear Gary Langer’s discussion today of the results of the latest Republican presidential primaries on Public Radio International’s “To the Point” with Warren Olney, here.

Blue Shield of California Foundation has published a series of issue briefs prepared by Langer Research Associates reporting on health care experiences and attitudes among poor and near-poor Californians. The four briefs elaborate on findings from our full report, “On the Cusp of Change: The Healthcare Preferences of Low-Income Californians,” published by the Foundation in June 2011.

One issue brief focuses on views among patients of Community Clinics and Health Centers in the state; another, on public clinic patients; and a third, on the private patient population. The fourth brief analyzes key differences across regions of the state. See them here.

Results of the full “On the Cusp of Change” study have been widely discussed by healthcare providers and policy makers in California and beyond as traditional safety net providers prepare for the new health care marketplace under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Langer Research Associates and our field work partner, Social Science Research Solutions, will present our approach to the sampling challenges the study raised, as well as an overview of findings, at the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research in Orlando, Florida, in May.

The United Nations Development Programme has published an extensive report by Langer Research Associates on public attitudes toward the police in Afghanistan. The Police Perception Survey, commissioned by the UNDP Law and Order Trust Fund for Afghanistan, provides a detailed examination of public impressions of the Afghan National Police across a range of measures, include statistical modeling of the predictors of support for the police force and confidence in its abilities. Field work was carried out by the Afghan Center for Socio-economic and Opinion Research in Kabul, a subsidiary of D3 Systems in Vienna, Va. Langer Research Associates conducted an in-depth literature review on attitudes toward policing, consulted on the questionnaire design, analyzed the data and wrote the report. See it here.

Coverage of our latest ABC News/Washington Post poll (beyond ABC and the Post) has included a pair of pieces by the estimable Ron Brownstein at the National Journal, here and here, as well as pickup at Politico, The Atlantic and RealClearPolitics, among others.

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.

Our polling this month for ABC News has been picked up by other media outlets including The New York Times (here and here), the Los Angeles Times, Business Week, U.S. News and World Report, United Press International, Time magazine, the International Business Times and theSeattle Post-Intelligencer.

We’ve seen pickup of our November polling for ABC News by news organizations including The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, The Atlantic, National Public Radio, The Hill and RealClearPolitics.

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.