Trump Wins Presidency With Consistent Message of Change in a Dangerous Time

Trump’s message tapped into the zeitgeist of America. His consistent message and positioning as a change agent carried him to an Electoral College victory last night. These broad themes were well-covered and “baked-in” to the polling conducted on behalf of NBC News and The Wall Street Journal. In the summer and throughout the election voters’ […]

The Clinton Loss

Even though Hillary Clinton is likely the popular vote winner nationally, Clinton did NOT get what she needed with minorities, leaving millions of votes on the table with African-Americans and Hispanics who were there four years ago for President Obama’s re-election. And, President-elect Donald Trump actually did marginally worse with White voters than Romney by […]

What Just Happened: Majority Of Election Night Voters Agree with Trump’s Core Populist Message

In an Election Night Poll of 800 actual voters conducted by Public Opinion Strategies last night we asked voters whether they agree or disagree with the following statement: “The economic and political systems in the country are stacked against people like me.” Voters were pretty split with 50{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} agreeing and 45{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} disagreeing with this statement. […]

Post-Election Release 2016

Public Opinion Strategies polls in twelve successful US Senate races and for five new members of Congress. Press release: Post-Election Release 2016    

2012 vs 2016 Undecided Voters

In 2012, Romney was running even with Barack Obama at this late point in the campaign. It was a very competitive race compared to today as most publicly available polling has found Trump well behind Clinton – sometimes by double-digits. One thing these two elections have in common, maybe the only thing, is that 7{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} […]

Walmart Moms Focus Group Part II

As part of our continuing series of focus groups among Walmart Moms, Neil Newhouse of Public Opinion Strategies and Margie Omero of Penn Schoen Berland conducted two focus groups on Tuesday, October 25, 2016. We have tracked these Walmart Moms – defined as female voters with children under 18 in their household and who shopped […]

NEW POLL RESULTS — Persuadable Voters in Key Senate Battleground States

FROM: Julie Hootkin, Global Strategy Group & Robert Blizzard, Public Opinion Strategies As we enter the final weeks of the 2016 election, undecided voters continue to struggle to make sense of this wild election cycle and are looking for facts online to inform their choices on Election Day. According to a survey of 500 persuadable likely […]

Movement in Mid-September Polls is of Increasing Significance

The 2016 presidential race is tightening, closing from a 5{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} advantage for Hillary Clinton on August 30th to a 1.5{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} advantage today (9/16) according to the RealClearPolitics.com average of national polls. But, hey it’s a snapshot in time and still a long slog to Election Day, right? Well, increasingly, no. You see, our voting process […]

Walmart Moms Focus Group Video & Memo

As part of our continuing series of focus groups among Walmart Moms, Neil Newhouse of Public Opinion Strategies and Margie Omero of Penn Schoen Berland conducted two focus groups on Tuesday, August 9, 2016. We have tracked these Walmart Moms – defined as voters with children under 18 in their household and who shopped at […]

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