The recent NPR survey conducted jointly between POS and GQR underscores the biggest change in the President’s fortunes in the first six months of the Obama Administration. The tide of intensity of public opinion is now moving solidly against Barack Obama — both politically and on policy. (This article does not necessarily reflect the opinions of NPR or […]
This article was co-authored by Bill McInturff and Alex Bratty. A few weeks ago your faithful pollsters checked in to report what we were seeing in our data on the health care debate. Back then almost a third of the country (30%) said they did not know enough to have an opinion about the President’s […]
Bill McInturff, Alex Bratty, and former RNC chairman Richard Bond wrote a column about education reform that appeared in Sunday’s Washington Post. Bill McInturff was mentioned in NBC’s First Read blog concerning public opinion of some of former President Bush’s policies. When you add that finding to last month’s NBC/WSJ result that 52% oppose the […]
Neil Newhouse was quoted in a National Journal article about President Obama’s declining poll numbers. “Once his job approval hits the percentage of the vote he got on Election Day, that means… his honeymoon is over,” said GOP pollster Neil Newhouse. “That’s the official demarcation denoting the end of the honeymoon. It was a good […]
There were several sobering findings in the NPR poll done by POS and GQR (neither NPR nor GQR are responsible for any of the conclusions in this posting). One of which is that the GOP counter message on cap and trade/energy got spanked by the Democrat message by 13 points, including seven on intensity. (I […]
For a President that the media has both compared to God, and worshiped like one, Barack Obama has fallen on some tough times. Not horrendous times, but he’s not exactly walking on water any more. The latest poll conducted by GQR and POS highlights some of the public opinion challenges that have slowed Obama’s direct […]
Oregon Public Radio posted an article discussing the recent decline in Obama’s approval ratings and referenced a recent NPR poll conducted by POS and Greenburg. Power Line quotes Neil Newhouse in post about Sarah Palin’s political future on the national stage. The first comes from pollster Neil Newhouse. He says: “It’s unquestionable that [Palin] has […]
The NPR bi-partisan polling team of Glen Bolger from Public Opinion Strategies and Stan Greenberg from Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research just released a new survey this morning. Link to the questionnaire with the results here. We’ve also got charts of the results. I will be posting more in-depth findings from the survey throughout the week, […]
This article was co-written by Jim Hobart and Glen Bolger. As President Obama uses his two favorite Presidential toys, the Teleprompter and the bully pulpit, to push his health care plan, public poll after public poll continues to show his numbers dropping across the board. While his job approval remains comfortably over 50%, (55.9% according […]
Neil Newhouse was quoted on StlToday.com in an article about Missouri Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer. That strategy could prove to be effective, said Neil Newhouse, a Missouri native and partner in a leading Republican polling firm in Washington. “It’s not about Republican ideas because people are never going to hear them,” Newhouse said. “The midterm elections […]
