Pre-Labor Day and pre-Obama’s health care speech to Congress: Public Opinion Strategies brought to your attention the very close parallels between the health care debate in 1994 when the Clintons tried (and failed) to jam reform through Congress, and today as Obama tries to jam it through. Indeed, our August data showed that public opinion […]
Analysis
By Neil Newhouse and Lisa Valentine Barack Obama started his term as president with one of the higher initial presidential approval ratings in recent history (64% according to Pew). However, his approval score has fallen further and faster than any elected US President since the era of modern polling. (Just so you know, I am […]
Mullings.com writer (and friend of Public Opinion Strategies) Rich Galen pointed out today that on the 100th day of his Administration, Barack Obama had a 67% approve/28% disapprove rating. Now, however, after 224 days of his Administration, Obama has tumbled down to a 51% approve/42% disapprove rating. Thus, it took just 124 days for the […]
National Journal: Don’t Shoot The Pollsters Reaction To NBC’s Polling On The Public Option Misses The Whole Story by Mark Blumenthal Monday, Aug. 31, 2009 (Click the link to read the entire article. Below are some of the key paragraphs.) Like predictions? Here’s an easy one: When the political winds shift and polls show bad […]
This article was co-written by Glen Bolger and Jim Hobart. Gallup recently used the ideology data from their tracking surveys from the first half of 2009 to compiled a list of the most conservative and most liberal states. While there are few surprises in the data (Alabama and Mississippi are the most conservative states, Massachusetts […]
