This post was written by Glen Bolger and Dave Wilson. Over the past five mid-terms, there have been more wave elections (1994, 2006, 2010) than elections with limited swing (1998, 2002). We thought it would be enlightening to look at the national House exit polls from those three wave elections for similarities and […]
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This article was co-authored by Bill McInturff and Liz Harrington. Public Opinion Strategies conducted a national telephone survey of 1,000 actual voters on election night. Health care reform was very much a key part of the debate this election with nearly seven in ten voters (69{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222}) saying they have seen, read, or heard a Congressional […]
The word “Obamacare” has entered the American political lexicon as almost nine out of ten voters (89%) can rate the term on a positive/negative scale. Voters have little difficulty answering an open-ended question about their reaction to the term Obamacare. Voters have a negative reaction to the term Obamacare (29% positive, 47% negative, with 13% […]
U.S. Voters’ favorable rating of the UN holds steady at 59% The United Nations Foundation and its sister organization, the Better World Campaign, released today the results of public opinion research showing strong, continued support for the United Nations. Americans’ 59% favorable rating of the United Nations indicates that the UN’s response to humanitarian issues, […]
Back in June, the survey that Stan Greenberg and I conducted for NPR was huge news. Conducted in 60 Democrat-held and 10 Republican-held seats, it showed Republicans ahead by a 48{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222}-39{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} count in the Tier 1 seats (30 most vulnerable) and up 47{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222}-45{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} in the Tier 2 seats (next 30 seats). It was the first […]
