In case you missed it, America’s unemployment rate passed into double-digits and is now at 10.0 percent. This is a hardship on Americans that has only happened ONE other time in the Post War era: 1982. What happened the last time unemployment broke the ten-point barrier? In 1982, Republicans who held the White House under […]
As the heath care debate has consumed much of the news coverage and political chit-chat over the last few weeks, focus on an important decision from President Obama’s Administration has been left hovering on the back burner. That’s the decision to try the suspected terrorists of the September 11 attacks in U.S. civilian court. It […]
If health care reform wasn’t such a serious issue with the lives and welfare of millions of Americans at stake, I might think President Obama and Democrats in Congress were playing one big national prank on us by suggesting the government should run health care. But, the fact is, health care reform IS a serious […]
By Bill McInturff and Elizabeth Harrington In one of the first national surveys completed after the House vote on health care reform…things do not look good for President Obama and Democrats in Congress: Opposition to President Obama’s health care plan is higher after the House vote than our previous tracks (29{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} favor/40{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} oppose). Voters’ net […]
By Nicole McCleskey and Bill McInturff As we look back to the Virginia and New Jersey elections, there are five important trends worth watching heading into 2010 that foreshadow good things to come for Republican candidates. 1. Republican voters are incredibly fired up about elections right now. This was on full display in Virginia and […]
Democrats and the press are on a self-delusional kick that Barack Obama had nothing to do with the results in Virginia and New Jersey. That’s fine by me. The more the Dems deny to themselves that Independents moved to the GOP and that Republican voters were fired up because of concerns about Obama, the less […]
By Bill McInturff and Nicole McCleskey If some Democrats have lost sleep over the last week, it is with good reason. Republicans are knocking on their doors, loud enough to cause some nightmares heading into 2010. Voters waved good-bye to President Bush in January, and he is increasingly fading in the rear view mirror. Democrats […]
Given the amount I’ve written about Independent voters recently, I would be remiss not to comment on the happy outcome of Tuesday’s elections in New Jersey and Virginia, and the impact of the Independent vote. As with any election, several factors were involved in this week’s GOP victories: Republicans were “fired up and ready to […]
The biggest story of Bob McDonnell’s dominating win in the Virginia Gubernatorial election is the enthusiasm of Republican voters, and the dispirited nature of Democratic voters. In 2005, I did the polling for Bob’s successful run for Attorney General. It’s now famous that Bob won the race by only 323 votes over Creigh Deeds. Bob […]
Win or lose, there are always lessons to be learned from campaigns. Here are five lessons from Virginia: In a toss-up political environment, candidate quality matters most. The political environment has shifted back to even, away from Dem dominance. The mood of the state under a Democrat governor was mixed, and President Obama had a […]
