In the House, Richard Nixon’s the one. In the Senate, Bill Clinton has not stopped thinking about tomorrow. But both of them are about to be replaced in modern political history* by Barack Obama unless Election Day turns out far differently than projected. The category, Alex? Recent two-term Presidents who have done the most political […]
read moreBarack Obama must not like his fellow Democrats. How else can we explain that the man with the golden political touch when he is on the ballot is political absinthe in the midterms. In our latest national survey, our pre-election poll done October 30-November 2, Obama’s approval rating of 41{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} approve/56{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} disapprove is lower than […]
read moreGiven a choice of three potential outcomes for the November election, Americans underscore their lack of love for the political parties by opting for none of the above. The latest WSJ/NBC poll offered respondents the choice of three outcomes for the election, and asked whether each was acceptable or unacceptable. A plurality of voters turned […]
read moreThat tearing sound you hear throughout the land is the rending of garments by anguished Democrats. In a day they surely never expected would arrive, Barack Obama has a worse image than George W. Bush in the just completed WSJ/NBC September poll. Of the three Presidents tested, Bill Clinton of course remains the most popular. […]
read moreThis is not another piece talking about the GOP challenges among women voters. Nor is this another piece analyzing the data about the gender gap. Those are important to do, but this does not attempt to do that. These blog posts do a great job of that. https://pos.org/2014/06/winning-women-what-republicans-can-do-in-2014/ https://pos.org/2014/06/winning-women-what-republicans-can-do-in-2014-2/ https://pos.org/2014/06/winning-women-what-republicans-can-do-in-2014-3/ Instead, this asks the question […]
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