President Obama and the Democrats have caught up to the fact their Base voters don’t seem that interested in showing up to vote this year. Unfortunately for them, this is not a new trend. We’ve been watching this for several months, noting the unprecedented interest gap in November’s elections between self-identified Republicans (67{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} “very interested”) […]
Analysis
Since 2005, Public Opinion Strategies has read and coded every gubernatorial state of the state speech to track emerging issues. (Yes, it’s a long and tedious job, but someone has to do it!) All the speeches for 2010 have now been given and so it’s time to assess what’s important in the states and what […]
Prior to the passage of health care reform the big question on everyone’s mind was whether signing the legislation into law would give President Obama and the Democrats the boost they need to get back on track this year. It’s been just over two weeks, and clearly the answer to that is a resounding “no.” […]
With the health care legislation signed by the President yesterday, did Democrats seal their fate in Western states? Prior to the signing, there were already signs of serious trouble for Democrats in Western states. Some key numbers from our March mid-March NBC/Wall Street Journal survey (March 11, 13-14): Fifty-four percent (54%) of voters in the […]
A comparison of our latest NBC/WSJ national survey* (which was conducted March 11, 13-14, before the health care bill passed the House) with common questions asked on the March 2006 NBC-WSJ national survey, shows Democrats may be facing the same rout Republicans endured just four years ago. One of the few commonalities between now and […]
