Public Opinion Strategies

Neil Newhouse was quoted in a National Journal article about President Obama’s declining poll numbers.
“Once his job approval hits the percentage of the vote he got on Election Day, that means… his honeymoon is over,” said GOP pollster Neil Newhouse. “That’s the official demarcation denoting the end of the honeymoon. It was a good one [...] Read more

There were several sobering findings in the NPR poll done by POS and GQR (neither NPR nor GQR are responsible for any of the conclusions in this posting).  One of which is that the GOP counter message on cap and trade/energy got spanked by the Democrat message by 13 points, including seven on intensity.
(I know [...] Read more

For a President that the media has both compared to God, and worshiped like one, Barack Obama has fallen on some tough times.  Not horrendous times, but he’s not exactly walking on water any more.  The latest poll conducted by GQR and POS highlights some of the public opinion challenges that have slowed Obama’s direct [...] Read more

Oregon Public Radio posted an article  discussing the recent decline in Obama’s approval ratings and referenced a recent NPR poll conducted by POS and Greenburg.
Power Line quotes Neil Newhouse in post about Sarah Palin’s political future on the national stage.
The first comes from pollster Neil Newhouse. He says: “It’s unquestionable that [Palin] has a future [...] Read more

The NPR bi-partisan polling team of Glen Bolger from Public Opinion Strategies and Stan Greenberg from Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research just released a new survey this morning.
Link to the questionnaire with the results here.  We’ve also got charts of the results.
I will be posting more in-depth findings from the survey throughout the week, so be [...] Read more

 This article was co-written by Jim Hobart and Glen Bolger.
As President Obama uses his two favorite Presidential toys, the Teleprompter and the bully pulpit, to push his health care plan, public poll after public poll continues to show his numbers dropping across the board. While his job approval remains comfortably over 50%, (55.9% according to [...] Read more

Neil Newhouse was quoted on StlToday.com in an article about Missouri Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer.
That strategy could prove to be effective, said Neil Newhouse, a Missouri native and partner in a leading Republican polling firm in Washington.
“It’s not about Republican ideas because people are never going to hear them,” Newhouse said. “The midterm elections will be [...] Read more

Slow down, you move too fast
You’ve got to make the morning last
Just kickin’ down the cobble stones
Looking for fun and feelin’ groovy!
Abundant apologies to Simon and Garfunkel, but doesn’t the recent CBS national poll regarding Obama and his policies reflect a public that believe he’s breaking the speed limit with his policies and has little [...] Read more

President Obama and Democrats in Congress have plunged into a full fox trot with Keynesian economics, swooping past all records of deficit spending in an attempt to lift the U.S. economy. While Democratic voters have generally swooned over the jitterbug pace at which the Administration and Congress has blown through budget barriers, they may be [...] Read more

Here at Public Opinion Strategies, it is axiomatic that a president’s job approval is held captive by the mood of the country.  Between President Obama’s swearing in and early June, national right direction numbers ballooned from 28% up to 46% while his job approval hovered in the low 60s. Since early June, right direction numbers [...] Read more