Public Opinion Strategies

The results of our latest national survey of 800 likely 2012 voters point to eleven percent (11%) of likely voters owning a Twitter account.  And only four percent (4%) say they have accessed their Twitter the day before.
So, who are these voters with a Twitter account? Read more

A younger group: 80% are 18-44 year olds
Slightly more female [...] Read more

11304 National Interview Schedule – POS Read more

Public Opinion Strategies completed a survey in the Fifth Congressional District of Virginia one day after President Barack Obama held a rally for embattled Democratic incumbent Tom Perriello.  As the attached release shows, the President’s political rally failed to boost Perriello’s standing.
Perriello is trailing Robert Hurt by a 45%-42% margin, with 6% for the third [...] Read more

Bill McInturff’s latest presentation on health care highlights the seven reasons there was no spike for President Obama after passage, looks at public opinion right now on health care, and the likely impact of the health care issue on the November election. Click here for the presentation. Read more

In a survey released yesterday by Public Opinion Strategies, a solid majority (59%) of basketball fans oppose expanding the NCAA tournament from a 64 team tournament to a 96 team tournament.  Just 29% of college basketball fans support expansion and ten percent are undecided. 
The survey was conducted April 11-13 among 800 likely 2010 voters and [...] Read more

National Journal: Don’t Shoot The Pollsters
Reaction To NBC’s Polling On The Public Option Misses The Whole Story
by Mark Blumenthal
Monday, Aug. 31, 2009
(Click the link to read the entire article.  Below are some of the key paragraphs.)
Like predictions? Here’s an easy one: When the political winds shift and polls show bad news for a political candidate [...] 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

The NPR bi-partisan polling team of Glen Bolger from Public Opinion Strategies and Stan Greenberg from Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research just released a new survey this morning.
Link to the questionnaire with the results here.  We’ve also got charts of the results.
I will be posting more in-depth findings from the survey throughout the week, so be [...] Read more

The American Association for Public Opinion Research held its annual conference a few weeks ago in Hollywood, FL. Unfortunately, I could not attend, but several of the presentations from the conference and interviews are posted on the web.
One of the presentations focused on the cell-phone-only voters from data collected in the 2008 exit poll. Michael [...] Read more

Public Opinion Strategies completed a national survey of 800 likely 2010 voters (April 19-21, 2009) where we asked a few demographic questions about cell phones and networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.  As you would suspect only a small percentage (13%) of voters do not have a working cell phone and one-third of likely [...] Read more