A lot of pundits have been overreaching on their analysis of the extraordinarily dramatic data that has shown significant voter anger at Washington. There have been predictions that incumbents are “unsafe at any speed” and that voters are going to wipe out both Republicans (who after all control the House, where legislation passes before Harry […]
read moreThis post was written by Glen Bolger and Jim Hobart Last week, following the killing of Osama Bin Laden, we looked at the average job approval bump for Presidents following major military and/or national security events. Not including the post 9/11 response, the average Presidential approval bump was 13{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} for an average of 22 weeks. […]
read morePublic Opinion Strategies was founded 20 years ago this week in 1991 by Neil Newhouse, Bill McInturff, and Glen Bolger. Since its founding, the firm has grown into the largest political and public affairs polling firm in the country. In 20 years, the firm has completed over six million interviews for nearly 15,000 projects.
read moreThis post was co-written by Glen Bolger and Jim Hobart Our friends at Democracy Corps recently released some initial findings of a survey they did in fifty Republican held battleground districts. Their initial memo, which can be found here begins: A new survey by Democracy Corps in 50 of the most competitive battleground Congressional districts […]
read moreThe mythology that has arisen around the December 1995 government “shutdown” (if the government does not really shutdown, is it really a shutdown?) suggests that it as a crushing political and policy defeat for the Republican party. In Sunday’s Washington Post, Newt Gingrich (Speaker of the House at the time) makes a compelling case that […]
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