This 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. […]
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Not including the post-9/11 response, the average presidential approval rating bumps up 13{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} for an average of 22 weeks.
In a recent opinion piece for Kaiser Health News, Public Opinion Strategies Partners Bill McInturff and Lori Weigel examined voters’ attitudes toward health care one year following passage of federal legislation. The most telling result? The absence of significant change, with a majority of American voters continuing to oppose the reforms. They go on to […]
This 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 […]
The 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 […]
