Public Opinion Strategies

National Journal: Don’t Shoot The Pollsters
Reaction To NBC’s Polling On The Public Option Misses The Whole Story
by Mark Blumenthal
Monday, Aug. 31, 2009
(Click the link to read the entire article.  Below are some of the key paragraphs.)
Like predictions? Here’s an easy one: When the political winds shift and polls show bad news for a political candidate [...] Read more

New national survey data released today by Public Opinion Strategies shows the country’s opinion of President Obama’s health care plan is virtually the same as that measured for President Clinton’s plan in 1994.
“This data is highly problematic for the President and clearly demonstrates the struggle President Obama faces as he tries to sell his health [...] Read more

This article was co-written by Glen Bolger and Jim Hobart.
Gallup recently used the ideology data from their tracking surveys from the first half of 2009 to compiled a list of the most conservative and most liberal states. While there are few surprises in the data (Alabama and Mississippi are the most conservative states, Massachusetts and [...] Read more

This article was co-authored by Bill McInturff and Alex Bratty.
It may be August, but we’re still here monitoring the public mood as the health care debate picks up steam. The latest news: Americans are paying attention to the health care debate and the message they’re sending to Obama is “go slow!”
Our recent NBC News poll* [...] Read more

For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain! Read more

Those words, penned by a young woman who had been inspired by the view from the top of Pikes Peak, have never more aptly described Colorado. Purple: you know, the color of royalty, the Northwestern Wildcats, and those most coveted voters we deem up for grabs.
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This article was co-written by Glen Bolger and Jim Hobart.
As the health care debate moves from the Capitol in D.C. to high school gymnasiums across the country, Democrats still find themselves on the losing end of the message battle and their hopes for creating a government-controlled and taxpayer-funded system continue to dwindle. Two recently released [...] Read more

As Congress splits town for the August recess, Members return to their districts where Americans are giving them a pretty poor report card. Our late July NBC/WSJ poll* shows the country is pretty unimpressed with Nancy Pelosi and the Congress as a whole.
Just one-quarter (24%) approves of the job Congress is doing, and disapproval (63%) [...] Read more

In June I wrote about the need for the Republican Party to act on the public’s increasing dissatisfaction over the level of government spending and their concern about the ever-increasing federal deficit. Our latest NBC/WSJ poll* shows this a real and growing opportunity, with the public starting to thaw on the GOP – at least when [...] Read more

Remember this line from The Perfect Storm uttered by Bobby Shatford (Mark Wahlberg)?
Skip, what are we gonna do about those numbers? They suck.
Kind of captures how The White House may be looking at the recent flurry of negative polls showing the President’s approval rating sinking, the air going out of his health care proposal and [...] Read more

The Wall Street Journal quotes Bill McInturff in an article on how Americans feel about health care reform.
“Health care is intensely personal,” says Bill McInturff, a Republican pollster who co-directs the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll and has long studied attitudes about health care. “It’s not like welfare. It’s about me.”
Politico published an article about [...] Read more