(This article was co-authored by Glen Bolger and Jim Hobart.) For months now, Democrats have been touting the success of the 2009 stimulus package and cherrypicking economic data to attempt to convince Americans that the economy has turned the corner and is headed in the right direction. When the most recent economic figures showed the […]
When President Obama took office in January 2009 he enjoyed soaring job approval and favorable image scores. But, as time has passed the laws of political gravity have taken hold as we have watched ratings for him and his party steadily decline throughout his first year in office. Now, as we’re settling into 2010 we’re […]
Key findings from a national survey of 1,000 adults between March 11, 13-14, 2010.
As President Obama prepares to deliver his first State of the Union address this evening, his team might want to consult our latest NBC/WSJ poll* since it paints a pretty clear picture of what the public thinks he should be spending his time on. A majority of Americans tell us he is giving too little […]
For the first time since June 2003, the Republican candidate has a five point lead on the generic ballot in a new survey conducted for NPR by Public Opinion Strategies and Greenberg, Quinlan, Rosner and Associates. The Republican candidate has a 44%-39% advantage. (The analysis of the data in this article does not necessarily reflect […]
On Sunday, January 24th, the lead op-ed in the Sunday Outlook section of the Washington Post was written by Glen Bolger and Neil Newhouse. Here are some of the highlights from the article: We had the privilege of serving as pollsters in two of these three victorious Republican campaigns, in Virginia and in Massachusetts, and […]
Note: Neil Newhouse is proud to have served as the pollster for the Brown for Senate campaign and the National Republican Senatorial Committee in this race. The Scott Brown victory was indeed the perfect storm – a terrific and engaging candidate, a tremendous campaign team, an issue environment that was strongly tilted away from the […]
TO: NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC LEADERS FROM: NEIL NEWHOUSE – PUBLIC OPINION STRATEGIES SUBJECT: WHAT MASSACHUSETTS MEANS FOR YOU DATE: JANUARY 19, 2010 (Note: Neil Newhouse is proud to have served as the pollster for the Brown for Senate campaign and the National Republican Senatorial Committee.) On the heels of Scott Brown’s stunning landslide victory in Massachusetts, […]
Note: Neil Newhouse is proud to have served as the pollster for the Brown for Senate campaign and the National Republican Senatorial Committee in this race. Massachusetts voters were sending a myriad of messages today with their election of Scott Brown. Here’s what we heard from voters we polled over the past two weeks… “We’re […]
Senior White House political adviser David Axelrod recently made the case that one of three ways the Democrats could improve their position in the 2010 mid-terms would be for job growth and an economic recovery. Obviously an economy that is creating jobs rather than simply shedding them is more helpful to the party in power, […]
