Note: Neil Newhouse is proud to have served as the pollster for the Brown for Senate campaign and the National Republican Senatorial Committee in this race. Massachusetts voters were sending a myriad of messages today with their election of Scott Brown. Here’s what we heard from voters we polled over the past two weeks… “We’re […]
Analysis
Senior White House political adviser David Axelrod recently made the case that one of three ways the Democrats could improve their position in the 2010 mid-terms would be for job growth and an economic recovery. Obviously an economy that is creating jobs rather than simply shedding them is more helpful to the party in power, […]
This weekend on CNN’s State of the Union with John King, Christina Romer, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said she expects the economy to get better by the spring and that she thought this was a “realistic estimate.” I sure hope she’s right about that, but unfortunately with the unemployment rate […]
This post was written by Neil Newhouse and Jeremy Ruch President Obama’s job approval in the January 2-4 Gallup Daily tracking was the second lowest in the modern era for Presidents starting their second year in office. Obama opened the new year with a 50{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222}-44{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} job approval rating which was marginally higher than President Reagan’s […]
The current debate among pundits regarding the GOP’s chances to take control of the House and make sizable gains in the Senate is both important and completely not important. It is important because the perceived chances of a GOP takeover in the House and a much better ability in the Senate to check the Dems […]
