This article was co-authored by Bill McInturff, partner and co-founder, Public Opinion Strategies AND Al Quinlan, president Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research Quit smoking. Eat right. Exercise more. For years, you’ve heard this from your family, your doctors, your teachers, your friends. Now, you can hear it on pretty much any street corner in the country. […]
Analysis
The media loves to fawn over Nancy Pelosi, and loves to bash Dick Cheney. And yet, according to the newest USA Today/Gallup poll, the two have essentially the same image. Pelosi has a 34% favorable/50% unfavorable image, while Cheney has a 37% favorable/54% unfavorable image. Both leaders are in pretty bad shape, but it’s difficult to […]
The American Association for Public Opinion Research held its annual conference a few weeks ago in Hollywood, FL. Unfortunately, I could not attend, but several of the presentations from the conference and interviews are posted on the web. One of the presentations focused on the cell-phone-only voters from data collected in the 2008 exit poll. […]
My partner Glen’s OCD is well-placed when it comes to Independent voters; where they end up will decide the 2010 elections. But, their swollen ranks have not just come by way of GOP defections. Thanks to the total, complete, consolidated, and dominating power of President Obama and Congressional allies in Congress, they are now coming […]
Faithful readers know that I am obsessed with Independents and swing voters. I have been ever since I worked at the NRCC and we lost an “unloseable” (is that a word?) special election in Indiana’s old 4th CD — a seat that had been held by Dan Coats and Dan Quayle. Evidence that history repeats […]
