Public Opinion Strategies

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).
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There were several sobering findings in the NPR poll done by POS and GQR (neither NPR nor GQR are responsible for any of the conclusions in this posting).  One of which is that the GOP counter message on cap and trade/energy got spanked by the Democrat message by 13 points, including seven on intensity.
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For a President that the media has both compared to God, and worshiped like one, Barack Obama has fallen on some tough times.  Not horrendous times, but he’s not exactly walking on water any more.  The latest poll conducted by GQR and POS highlights some of the public opinion challenges that have slowed Obama’s direct [...] 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

Paul West of the Baltimore Sun quotes Glen Bolger in his article about the possible political change of tide.
“Republicans are in better shape now than we were in November or even January,” says Glen Bolger, a Republican pollster who conducts surveys for National Public Radio. “We’ve seen some modest movement for Republicans on party identification.”
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Republicans can find some solace in the recent NPR national survey results that we are not alone. As Glen Bolger noted in his posting Independent’s Day, the GOP might now have a reason to believe.
What’s striking about this recent survey data is just how much closer Independents are to Republican voters on many key political [...] Read more

While there are clearly some glimmers of hope for the GOP in the latest NPR survey, there is also some major cautionary notes. The biggest caution of all is that – on four major issue battles, the Democrats have the advantage.
This analysis results are based on a bipartisan survey conducted by Public Opinion Strategies together [...] Read more

Barack Obama is catching a cold on his economic policies. Sure, his numbers are a lot healthier than George W. Bush’s were in the last years of his Presidency, but there is danger in the data for Democrats.
This analysis results are based on a bipartisan survey conducted by Public Opinion Strategies together with Greenberg, Quinlan, [...] Read more

The new national survey done for NPR by Public Opinion Strategies and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research is chock full of interesting data, including some good news for the GOP, as well as continued caution. I will be writing a new post per day this week on the NPR survey.
The best news is the generic ballot. [...] 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.
The survey found:
 A new NPR poll shows that President Obama’s job approval rating is still high — 59 percent — and among likely voters surveyed, the Democratic position on [...] Read more