(This article was co-authored by Glen Bolger and Jim Hobart.) For months now, Democrats have been touting the success of the 2009 stimulus package and cherrypicking economic data to attempt to convince Americans that the economy has turned the corner and is headed in the right direction. When the most recent economic figures showed the […]
read moreFor the first time since June 2003, the Republican candidate has a five point lead on the generic ballot in a new survey conducted for NPR by Public Opinion Strategies and Greenberg, Quinlan, Rosner and Associates. The Republican candidate has a 44%-39% advantage. (The analysis of the data in this article does not necessarily reflect […]
read moreOn Sunday, January 24th, the lead op-ed in the Sunday Outlook section of the Washington Post was written by Glen Bolger and Neil Newhouse. Here are some of the highlights from the article: We had the privilege of serving as pollsters in two of these three victorious Republican campaigns, in Virginia and in Massachusetts, and […]
read moreSenior White House political adviser David Axelrod recently made the case that one of three ways the Democrats could improve their position in the 2010 mid-terms would be for job growth and an economic recovery. Obviously an economy that is creating jobs rather than simply shedding them is more helpful to the party in power, […]
read moreThe current debate among pundits regarding the GOP’s chances to take control of the House and make sizable gains in the Senate is both important and completely not important. It is important because the perceived chances of a GOP takeover in the House and a much better ability in the Senate to check the Dems […]
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