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New Health Care Reform Polling: Democratic leadership versus Democratic ‘no’ votes

By Public Opinion Strategies

“Democrat leadership districts are from Mars, Democrat ‘no’ vote districts are from Venus.”
Two new Public Opinion Strategies’ polls out today show…Those Members of Congress in the 36 ‘no’ vote Democratic congressional districts face substantial pushback from their constituents and significant electoral peril if they vote ‘yes’ on the health care reform bill.  The Democratic [...]

Congress Gets A No Confidence Vote

By Alex Bratty

Our latest NBC/WSJ poll is out, and the headline is clear: Voters are deeply dissatisfied with their government.
Sending a staggering signal of no confidence, half the electorate (50%) says it would vote to defeat and replace every single member of Congress, including their own representative, if there were a place on the ballot to do [...]

POS in the News 3/17/2010

By sara

Alex Bratty authored an article, “What Do Hispanics — and All Voters — Want?” on Pajamas Media today. 
The piece takes a looks at the some of the data from the latest survey released by Resurgent Republic, and identifies some of the key opportunities for Republicans to improve their standing with Hispanic voters.


Answering the “Party of No” Attack

By Glen Bolger

The newest NBC/WSJ poll  has a wealth of interesting information, and Alex Bratty will be blogging on some of those key findings over the next few days.  But, one question that Bill McInturff and Peter Hart asked caught my eye, so I’ve written a post on it.  As always, these opinions expressed on the blog do [...]

The Mood Gap Finally Favoring Republicans

By Glen Bolger

A key to understanding the mindset of Independent voters is to compare their views on the right direction/wrong track with the views of Republicans and Democrats.  Independents are always somewhere in between the two partisan groups — but the key is which partisan group are Independents closer to at any point in time – which I’ve [...]

National Security Woes Plague Dems

By Glen Bolger

Our friends across the aisle at Democracy Corps released a survey yesterday that received a lot of national attention.   Calling it a wake-up call, they noted “the results are sobering” for President Obama and the Democrats.  Their analysis is well worth reading, including the point that:
Historical doubts about the Democratic Party on national security show [...]