Public Opinion Strategies

Since January many people have asked me and my colleagues at Public Opinion Strategies when President Obama’s honeymoon period will be over. As pollsters we can’t predict the future and read tea-leaves, but we can read current data. The answer is, it’s happening right now.
Our latest NBC/WSJ poll* shows President Obama’s ratings dropping across the [...] Read more

Marriage.  Marriage is what brings us together today.  Most of the analyses looking at politics today focus on either the gender gap, or the generation gap, or the huge differences between base partisans.  However, one of the more enduring and important gaps is the marriage/single gap.
The 2008 exit polls showed the gap.  The 66% of [...] Read more

The recent NPR survey conducted jointly between POS and GQR underscores the biggest change in the President’s fortunes in the first six months of the Obama Administration.  The tide of intensity of public opinion is now moving solidly against Barack Obama — both politically and on policy.
(This article does not necessarily reflect the opinions of NPR or GQR).
While [...] Read more

This article was co-authored by Bill McInturff and Alex Bratty.
A few weeks ago your faithful pollsters checked in to report what we were seeing in our data on the health care debate. Back then almost a third of the country (30%) said they did not know enough to have an opinion about the President’s health [...] Read more

Bill McInturff, Alex Bratty, and former RNC chairman Richard Bond wrote a column about education reform that appeared in Sunday’s Washington Post.
Bill McInturff was mentioned in NBC’s First Read blog concerning public opinion of some of former President Bush’s policies.
When you add that finding to last month’s NBC/WSJ result that 52% oppose the closing of [...] Read more