Public Opinion Strategies and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research completed a research study for the Economic Mobility Project of the Pew Charitable Trusts. The research measured perceptions of the American Dream and perceptions toward Economic Mobility. The study found a strong belief that individual factors such as hard work and drive play key roles in economic mobility.
(This article was originally published by Politico.com on November 19, 2007) As recent reports about “push polling” on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s religious affiliation make their way through the newspapers and the blogosphere, I thought it might be helpful to provide a brief pollster’s guide to what constitutes a push poll and what doesn’t. […]
Patrick Lanne is quoted in an article in the Daily Gazette about the 20th Congressional District race in New York: “It’s not the district that Jerry Solomon had,” said Patrick Lanne of Wilton, a pollster for the Tedisco campaign. […] So what are voters looking for in a candidate? Often they vote based on personality […]
One of the most interesting public polls I’ve seen this year was released last week by Quinnipiac University. The questionnaire went into detail on a number of issues, and the release included in-depth crosstabs, including partisan breakouts. I’ve often made the case that when Independents are closer to Republicans than to Democrats on an issue, […]
Chris Cillizza discusses this blog in The Fix today: The [folks] over at Public Opinion Strategies, one of the leading GOP political polling firms, have started their own blog designed to turn questions into answers — hence the TQIA blog. (The Fix loves acronyms.) The blog already has some interesting stuff on it including an […]
On March 3rd, when asked about the stock markets, President Obama responded by saying, “what I’m looking at is not the day-to-day gyrations in the stock market, but the long-term ability for the United States and the entire world economy to regain its footing. The stock market is sort of like a tracking poll in […]
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Our friend over at Pollster.com, Mark Blumenthal, took an in-depth look at a question on the NBC/WSJ poll done by Peter Hart and Bill McInturff in a post entitled “When Does Gravity Begin for Obama.”
WKOW reported on the MacIver Institute poll conducted by Gene Ulm: Wisconsin will elect a State Supreme Court justice and a new state school superintendent in the Spring election, and a newly released poll from the MacIver Institute for Public Policy finds nearly half the likely voters have not settled on a candidate in either […]
President Obama: “What I’m looking at is not the date-to-day gyrations of the stock market…” Well, he should be. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped more than 2,500 points and lost 27{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} of its value since November 5. Why is this important? The market isn’t just for rich people anymore. And, it hasn’t been […]
