Public Opinion Strategies

Given two points of view about the President’s economic policies, voters in the key 60 Democratic districts overwhelmingly say that those policies are not working.
The survey was conducted for National Public Radio by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research (GQR) and Public Opinion Strategies in 70 swing districts – 30 Tier One Democratic-held districts, 30 Tier Two [...] Read more

The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll has a great deal of interesting data in it.  The big story the Post focused on was anger at incumbents.  I (and others) have made the case that anger at incumbents have in past years translated in November to wave elections that benefit one party at the expense of the [...] Read more

A recent ARG national survey (5/17-20, N=1,100 adults) found that the perception of America’s economy has weakened since April.  Only 31% say the economy is getting better (down from 39% in April), while 40% say it is getting worse (the third month in a row that “worse” was at 40-41%).
Plus, the President’s own approval rating [...] 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

One of the questions I’m most frequently asked by Republicans is “when is this going to be viewed as Barack Obama’s economy?”  After all, GOPers reason, Obama has gotten his stimulus bill, his auto company to play with, and he’s making the nation’s banks dance to the tune he’s calling.
However, it’s clear the public has [...] Read more

This article was co-authored by Bill McInturff and Alex Bratty
Is the looming threat to our economy rising inflation, or falling prices, known as deflation? That’s the current debate raging among economists as this month brought some more staggering statistics.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) dropped 0.1% in March and was flat in April. However, the annual [...] Read more

It was a revelatory moment when I moderated a focus group of Congressional Hill staffers earlier this year and they laughed, no, jeered really, at the mention of billions of dollars.  “Billions?” one scoffed.  “It’s all trillions these days.”   
 
Such may be the warped world of Washington, but at least spending trillions of taxpayer dollars [...] Read more

Our most recent national survey asked a battery of questions on President Obama’s economic policies and the stimulus. In a nutshell, when it comes to Americans: Read more

55% support it;
56% support it and either believe it will work or hope it will work;
57% believe it will help most Americans, and
50% believe it will help they and their [...] Read more

Poll after poll shows that fixing the economy and getting people back to work is the number one issue on voters’ minds these days. But, our recent NBC/WSJ survey shows that 61% of the country is concerned the federal government will spend too much money trying to boost the economy and as a result will [...] Read more

(This post was co-authored by Bill McInturff and Julia Sprague) Read more

Public Opinion Strategies has been fascinated by the Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index (MCSI) for some time now. The MCSI is a monthly survey, with data available by month since 1978 and by quarter from 1952-1977, which gauges confidence among U.S. consumers. Read more

Given the current recession and the [...] Read more