On behalf of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, Public Opinion Strategies conducted eight focus groups in five locations: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on April 4; Columbus, Ohio, on April 6; Canton, Michigan, on April 10; Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on April 11; and Houston, Texas, on April 18. The focus groups were conducted among Trump voters, […]
read moreThe two Real Clear Politics frontrunners based on the average of the national polls, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, have already reached a dubious historical point that no other recent open seat Presidential candidate has done – sky high negatives!
read moreEvery place it has been implemented, it has failed. Miserably. And yet, according to a newly released poll, the siren song of socialism is more attractive than capitalism to one segment of the American people – Democrats. The survey, conducted online by YouGov among 1,000 adults, is stunning for the difference in the ratings between […]
read moreIn times of political turmoil, it’s always good to be able to reach back to the 1960s for some Buffalo Springfield lyrics, and this is political turmoil. Both parties are seeing the conventional wisdom of their nomination fight (Republicans) and nomination coronation (Democrats) turned upside down, not so much by a pair of outside-the-box candidates, […]
read moreTwo policy questions roiling Washington show that partisan bases are not always as united as their elected party leaders in D.C. would like them to be. Crosstabs from two questions on the latest NBC/WSJ survey underscore that. In both cases, Republicans and Democrats do not agree with each other, but neither base is as strongly […]
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