Slow down, you move too fast You’ve got to make the morning last Just kickin’ down the cobble stones Looking for fun and feelin’ groovy! Abundant apologies to Simon and Garfunkel, but doesn’t the recent CBS national poll regarding Obama and his policies reflect a public that believe he’s breaking the speed limit with his […]
President Obama and Democrats in Congress have plunged into a full fox trot with Keynesian economics, swooping past all records of deficit spending in an attempt to lift the U.S. economy. While Democratic voters have generally swooned over the jitterbug pace at which the Administration and Congress has blown through budget barriers, they may be […]
Here at Public Opinion Strategies, it is axiomatic that a president’s job approval is held captive by the mood of the country. Between President Obama’s swearing in and early June, national right direction numbers ballooned from 28% up to 46% while his job approval hovered in the low 60s. Since early June, right direction numbers […]
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 […]
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 […]
Over the weekend, Mark Blumenthal of Pollster.com linked to Alex Bratty’s recent blog post, “Buyers’ Remorse?” From an article by Politico’s Jonathan Martin regarding Sarah Palin’s Friday announcement that she was resigning as Governor of Alaska: “There is just no good way to say quitting has made her more qualified to run for higher office,” […]
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 […]
(The article was co-authored by Matthew Jason.) This is the third in a series of blog entries regarding specific voter demographics in California based on a merge of all the statewide interviews conducted by the California Office of Public Opinion Strategies going back to the beginning on 2004. This merge includes a total of over […]
