I typically receive four morning emails with political news and analysis. There’s usually something smart or helpful in each. Today’s First Read email from the smart people (which doesn’t mean they are always right, but they are usually interesting) in NBC’s Political shop (led by the now famous Chuck Todd — I knew him back […]
Analysis
This article was co-authored by Bill McInturff and Alex Bratty. If you’ve been following the ins-and-outs of the health care debate and reading some of the recent articles regarding public attitudes towards the proposal for a public plan you might be a little confused about what it is people really want. And rightly so, for […]
Winning the Independent vote isn’t the only reason Barack Obama won the presidential election last year, but it is certainly one of the key factors. Indeed, he carried this important sub-group by eight points (52% Obama, 44% McCain), and until recently Independents have been staunch supporters of the president. However, our recent NBC/WSJ poll* shows […]
This post was written by Jim Hobart and Glen Bolger. According to a recently released survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 55% of the adult population are now what Pew classifies as “online political users,” or, people who go online to either get information about politics, or to get involved in […]
The recently released Resurgent Republic survey on health care is so chock full of interesting data, that I’m going to write a couple of blog posts on it this week. (Note: I am on the National Survey Research Advisory Board of the organization). The first observation is what makes health care such a difficult issue […]
