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POS In The News, 8/5/09

The Wall Street Journal quotes Bill McInturff in an article on how Americans feel about health care reform. “Health care is intensely personal,” says Bill McInturff, a Republican pollster who co-directs the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll and has long studied attitudes about health care. “It’s not like welfare. It’s about me.” Politico published an […]

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The honeymoon is over. Political gravity brings Obama back down to earth.

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 […]

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POS In The News, 8/3/09

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 […]

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POS In The News, 7/31/09

Neil Newhouse was quoted in a National Journal article about President Obama’s declining poll numbers. “Once his job approval hits the percentage of the vote he got on Election Day, that means… his honeymoon is over,” said GOP pollster Neil Newhouse. “That’s the official demarcation denoting the end of the honeymoon. It was a good […]

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POS In The News, 7/29/09

Oregon Public Radio posted an article  discussing the recent decline in Obama’s approval ratings and referenced a recent NPR poll conducted by POS and Greenburg. Power Line quotes Neil Newhouse in post about Sarah Palin’s political future on the national stage. The first comes from pollster Neil Newhouse. He says: “It’s unquestionable that [Palin] has […]

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