Public Opinion Strategies

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

Since January many people have asked me and my colleagues at Public Opinion Strategies when President Obama’s honeymoon period will be over. As pollsters we can’t predict the future and read tea-leaves, but we can read current data. The answer is, it’s happening right now.
Our latest NBC/WSJ poll* shows President Obama’s ratings dropping across the [...] Read more

Marriage.  Marriage is what brings us together today.  Most of the analyses looking at politics today focus on either the gender gap, or the generation gap, or the huge differences between base partisans.  However, one of the more enduring and important gaps is the marriage/single gap.
The 2008 exit polls showed the gap.  The 66% of [...] Read more