POS in the News – June 24, 2013

Bloomberg News quoted partner Neil Newhouse in an article on the Republican Party’s ongoing attempt at re-branding itself. A blog post by senior project director Paul Donaldson concerning Americans’ reluctance to become involved in international conflicts was picked up by Huffington Post’s Pollster Update.

Democracy Corps Congressional Battleground Poll: Our View

As a pollster, I typically find surveys conducted by Democracy Corps/Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research (D) terribly interesting and thought-provoking, and genuinely admire the transparency these Democratic pollsters show in releasing their full toplines along with their analysis. However, if you read just the analysis memo from Democracy Corps most recent Congressional Battleground Survey (http://www.democracycorps.com/Battleground-Surveys/not-so-fast-2014-congressional-battleground-very-competitive/), you […]

President Obama’s Jobless Recovery….or, America’s Ever-Shrinking Band of Happier (and a lot Wealthier) People

Last month, 58.6{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} of working-age Americans were actually working. It must be good times for working folks, right? Guess again: the percentage of working-age Americans actually working has held stagnant since October of ‘09 when it dropped out of the 60{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} range just a couple of months after President Obama was sworn in the first […]

Syria: Obama’s “Red Line” vs. American Reluctance

It has been over two years since the bloody fighting in Syria began between President Bashar al-Assad’s government forces and anti-government rebels. Despite the limited attention from the U.S. public where only 15{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} of Americans admit to following the news about the civil war in Syria “very closely” (Gallup, May, 2013), the civil war has […]

POS in the News – June 13, 2013

Vice President Jim Hobart was recognized as one of Campaign and Election Magazine’s 2013 Rising Stars. Congratulations, Jim! In regards to the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, Partner Bill McInturff was mentioned in two separate articles.  First, in the Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire  about immigration.  He was also quoted in First Read by NBC News, talking […]

NBC NEWS / WALL STREET JOURNAL

Full Release interview schedule from the 2013 May-June NBC News/The Wall Street Journal Poll. NBC News / Wall Street Journal — May 30 – June 2, 2013 (PDF Format)

Most Americans Favor Allowing Illegal Immigrants to Stay in the United States

Any discussion of immigration reform invariably brings to mind the question of how to deal with those people already living in America illegally.  This question of deportation versus providing a way for those here illegally to remain in the country has become highly charged politically, especially among the traditional partisan bases of the two major […]

POS in the News – June 10, 2013

Newsobserver mentioned partner Glen Bolger in an article regarding the upcoming North Carolina Senate race. Partner Robert Blizzard’s blog post about the future of the GOP was highlighted in the Huffington Post’s Pollster Update. The company also gained recognition for two polls: one, in reference to the immigration issue facing the country, in the Daily […]

Put Simply: Republican Improvement with Young Voters means Improving with Hispanics

Although Mitt Romney improved upon John McCain’s 2008 performance among 18-29 year olds, Romney still lost younger voters by a significant margin last November.  OK, so that’s not new information to anyone in politics.  But, digging deeper into the exit polls from the last two presidential elections shows Romney actually won a majority of the […]

POS in the News – June 5, 2013

The Wall Street Journal quoted partner Bill McInturff in a front-page article about the new NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll. CNBC also quoted Mr. McInturff in another article about the poll. Vice President Micah Roberts was quoted in a blog post from the Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire as well.

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