Public Opinion Strategies

I wanted to get to this early September poll by AP-Gfk sooner, but time got away from me.  However, the data is so compelling it is still worth reviewing.
The key finding of the survey — as highlighted by the chart below — is that Barack Obama has a net negative rating on five of the [...] Read more

In June, I wrote a piece noting that Independents – one of President Obama’s electoral keys to the White House – appeared to be experiencing some buyers’ remorse on their 2008 vote decision.
It’s just a few months later, and less than a year since Obama took office, but it seems the American public, and especially [...] Read more

Results of the latest NBC-Wall Street Journal survey conducted by Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies and Peter Hart of Hart Research Associates are available. The national survey was conducted September 17-20, 2009 among 1,005 adults. The full results can be found here. Read more

By: Dave Wilson
This article highlights key findings from a merge analysis conducted by Public Opinion Strategies of all interviews conducted by the firm on national surveys since 2004.  This merge analysis contains more than 100,000 interviews (and growing) and is a valuable tool for tracking demographic and attitudinal shifts over time.  For more information about [...] Read more

By: Lisa Valentine
This article highlights key findings from a merge analysis conducted by Public Opinion Strategies of all interviews conducted by the firm on national surveys since 2004.  This merge analysis contains more than 100,000 interviews (and growing) and is a valuable tool for tracking demographic and attitudinal shifts over time.  [...] Read more

The Michigan Consumer Confidence Index numbers for August are out: 65.7, or one of the 33 worst months on record. The University of Michigan started the Index in winter of 1978 and has released data monthly ever since.
While not as predictive as one of our other favorite indexes, the Misery Index, the consumer confidence index [...] Read more

By: Jeremy Ruch
This article highlights key findings from a merge analysis conducted by Public Opinion Strategies of all interviews conducted by the firm on national surveys since 2004.  This merge analysis contains more than 100,000 interviews (and growing) and is a valuable tool for tracking demographic and attitudinal shifts over time.  For more information about [...] Read more

This is not a polling analysis.  Instead, I thought it important to share two key strategic message points on the blog.
The first is, there has been a move afoot among Democrats and some in the media to claim that the economy has turned around.  And, of course, they point to select stats to make their [...] Read more

Pre-Labor Day and pre-Obama’s health care speech to Congress: Public Opinion Strategies brought to your attention the very close parallels between the health care debate in 1994 when the Clintons tried (and failed) to jam reform through Congress, and today as Obama tries to jam it through.
Indeed, our August data showed that public opinion of [...] Read more

Here’s a link to an important and interesting national survey released today by the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), conducted by Nicole McCleskey.
Among the key findings: Read more

– President Obama’s approval rating drop now ties Bill Clinton with the steepest decline in presidential approval ratings during the first six months in office.
– Important signs that the Republican [...] Read more