I have spent just over 17 years in polling at Public Opinion Strategies. That had occurred to me, certainly, but not in the same way until Jon Stewart voiced the same timeline in his announcement this week that he would be leaving “The Daily Show.” Seventeen years. As they say, the days are long, but […]
read moreThe Christmas Countdown app my two children installed on my iPhone is about to run its course of daily screeching out “Jingle Bells” (often just as I have joined a conference call), and literally ticking down the seconds until the fat man sings – er, flies out of sight. Of course, my kids don’t look […]
read moreC.S. Lewis once said, “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” The presidential aspirants in the Democrat Party seem to have taken that as a challenge. Last week, 68-year-old former Senator Jim Webb joined the field of potential Democrat Presidential candidates by announcing the formation of a […]
read moreThe survey research firm of Public Opinion Strategies (POS) polled for three of the eight candidates who took away Democratic Senate seats (so far), four Governors, and nine new Members of Congress. Including independent expenditure efforts, Public Opinion Strategies polled in 16 Senate and Gubernatorial statewide victories and 53 Congressional victories, including 19 seats wrestled […]
read moreAs we enter the final stretch for this year’s elections, there is little doubt that voters are frustrated with the direction of the country and how it’s being governed. Consider the evidence: 67{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} of voters say the nation is off on the wrong track. [NBC/WSJ, Sept 2014] 72{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} of Americans are dissatisfied with the ways […]
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