Public Opinion Strategies

By Bill McInturff and Nicole McCleskey
If some Democrats have lost sleep over the last week, it is with good reason.  Republicans are knocking on their doors, loud enough to cause some nightmares heading into 2010.
Voters waved good-bye to President Bush in January, and he is increasingly fading in the rear view mirror.  Democrats still like [...] Read more

New national survey data released today by Public Opinion Strategies shows the country’s opinion of President Obama’s health care plan is virtually the same as that measured for President Clinton’s plan in 1994.
“This data is highly problematic for the President and clearly demonstrates the struggle President Obama faces as he tries to sell his health [...] 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

This article was co-authored by Bill McInturff and Alex Bratty.
If you’ve been following the ins-and-outs of the health care debate and reading some of the recent articles regarding public attitudes towards the proposal for a public plan you might be a little confused about what it is people really want. And rightly so, for there [...] Read more

This article was co-authored by Bill McInturff, partner and co-founder, Public Opinion Strategies AND Al Quinlan, president Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research
Quit smoking.  Eat right.  Exercise more.  For years, you’ve heard this from your family, your doctors, your teachers, your friends.  Now, you can hear it on pretty much any street corner in the country. A [...] Read more

This article was co-authored by Bill McInturff and Alex Bratty
Is the looming threat to our economy rising inflation, or falling prices, known as deflation? That’s the current debate raging among economists as this month brought some more staggering statistics.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) dropped 0.1% in March and was flat in April. However, the annual [...] Read more

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As the debate over health care heats up and President Obama starts to sell his plan in earnest to the American people, he’s facing a pretty significant perception gap between what the public believe he’s focused on and what they think he [...] Read more

(This post was co-authored by Bill McInturff and Julia Sprague) Read more

Public Opinion Strategies has been fascinated by the Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index (MCSI) for some time now. The MCSI is a monthly survey, with data available by month since 1978 and by quarter from 1952-1977, which gauges confidence among U.S. consumers. Read more

Given the current recession and the [...] Read more