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POS In The News, 7/20/09

Neil Newhouse was quoted on StlToday.com in an article about Missouri Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer. That strategy could prove to be effective, said Neil Newhouse, a Missouri native and partner in a leading Republican polling firm in Washington. “It’s not about Republican ideas because people are never going to hear them,” Newhouse said. “The midterm elections […]

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E-Answers: Dancing with the Deficit

President Obama and Democrats in Congress have plunged into a full fox trot with Keynesian economics, swooping past all records of deficit spending in an attempt to lift the U.S. economy. While Democratic voters have generally swooned over the jitterbug pace at which the Administration and Congress has blown through budget barriers, they may be […]

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POS in the News, 7/6/09

Over the weekend, Mark Blumenthal of Pollster.com linked to Alex Bratty’s recent blog post, “Buyers’ Remorse?” From an article by Politico’s Jonathan Martin regarding Sarah Palin’s Friday announcement that she was resigning as Governor of Alaska: “There is just no good way to say quitting has made her more qualified to run for higher office,” […]

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Buyers’ Remorse?

Winning the Independent vote isn’t the only reason Barack Obama won the presidential election last year, but it is certainly one of the key factors. Indeed, he carried this important sub-group by eight points (52% Obama, 44% McCain), and until recently Independents have been staunch supporters of the president. However, our recent NBC/WSJ poll* shows […]

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California Demographic Breakdown: Young Voters in California Still a Winnable Group for Republicans?

(The article was co-authored by Matthew Jason.) This is the third in a series of blog entries regarding specific voter demographics in California based on a merge of all the statewide interviews conducted by the California Office of Public Opinion Strategies going back to the beginning on 2004. This merge includes a total of over […]

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