Public Opinion Strategies

As President Obama prepares to deliver his first State of the Union address this evening, his team might want to consult our latest NBC/WSJ poll* since it paints a pretty clear picture of what the public thinks he should be spending his time on.
A majority of Americans tell us he is giving too little attention [...] Read more

For the first time since June 2003, the Republican candidate has a five point lead on the generic ballot in a new survey conducted for NPR by Public Opinion Strategies and Greenberg, Quinlan, Rosner and Associates.  The Republican candidate has a 44%-39% advantage.
(The analysis of the data in this article  does not necessarily reflect the [...] Read more

On Sunday, January 24th, the lead op-ed in the Sunday Outlook section of the Washington Post was written by Glen Bolger and Neil Newhouse.
Here are some of the highlights from the article:
We had the privilege of serving as pollsters in two of these three victorious Republican campaigns, in Virginia and in Massachusetts, and we found [...] Read more

Note: Neil Newhouse is proud to have served as the pollster for the Brown for Senate campaign and the National Republican Senatorial Committee in this race.
The Scott Brown victory was indeed the perfect storm – a terrific and engaging candidate, a tremendous campaign team, an issue environment that was strongly tilted away from the national [...] Read more

TO:                  NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC LEADERS
FROM:            NEIL NEWHOUSE – PUBLIC OPINION STRATEGIES
SUBJECT:      WHAT MASSACHUSETTS MEANS FOR YOU
DATE:            JANUARY 19, 2010 Read more

(Note: Neil Newhouse is proud to have served as the pollster for the Brown for Senate campaign and the National Republican Senatorial Committee.)
On the heels of Scott Brown’s stunning landslide victory in Massachusetts, here are some observations based [...] Read more

Note: Neil Newhouse is proud to have served as the pollster for the Brown for Senate campaign and the National Republican Senatorial Committee in this race.
Massachusetts voters were sending a myriad of messages today with their election of Scott Brown.  Here’s what we heard from voters we polled over the past two weeks… Read more

“We’re mad as [...] Read more

Senior White House political adviser David Axelrod recently made the case that one of three ways the Democrats could improve their position in the 2010 mid-terms would be for job growth and an economic recovery.   Obviously an economy that is creating jobs rather than simply shedding them is more helpful to the party in power, [...] Read more

This weekend on CNN’s State of the Union with John King, Christina Romer, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said she expects the economy to get better by the spring and that she thought this was a “realistic estimate.”
I sure hope she’s right about that, but unfortunately with the unemployment rate stuck [...] Read more

This post was written by Neil Newhouse and Jeremy Ruch
President Obama’s job approval in the January 2-4 Gallup Daily tracking was the second lowest in the modern era for Presidents starting their second year in office.  Obama opened the new year with a 50%-44% job approval rating which was marginally higher than President Reagan’s 49%-40% [...] Read more

By Nicole McCleskey
The December NBC/Wall Street Journal survey confirmed a year-long trend of voters moving away from President Obama and The Democratic Party, setting the stage for what promises to be an exciting election year out West.
Retirements this week prompted me to once again look at the data out West. While the trends nationally are [...] Read more