Public Opinion Strategies

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

Bill McInturff, Alex Bratty, and former RNC chairman Richard Bond wrote a column about education reform that appeared in Sunday’s Washington Post.
Bill McInturff was mentioned in NBC’s First Read blog concerning public opinion of some of former President Bush’s policies.
When you add that finding to last month’s NBC/WSJ result that 52% oppose the closing of [...] Read more

Neil Newhouse was quoted in a National Journal article about President Obama’s declining poll numbers.
“Once his job approval hits the percentage of the vote he got on Election Day, that means… his honeymoon is over,” said GOP pollster Neil Newhouse. “That’s the official demarcation denoting the end of the honeymoon. It was a good one [...] Read more

Oregon Public Radio posted an article  discussing the recent decline in Obama’s approval ratings and referenced a recent NPR poll conducted by POS and Greenburg.
Power Line quotes Neil Newhouse in post about Sarah Palin’s political future on the national stage.
The first comes from pollster Neil Newhouse. He says: “It’s unquestionable that [Palin] has a future [...] Read more

Neil Newhouse was quoted on StlToday.com in an article about Missouri Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer.
That strategy could prove to be effective, said Neil Newhouse, a Missouri native and partner in a leading Republican polling firm in Washington.
“It’s not about Republican ideas because people are never going to hear them,” Newhouse said. “The midterm elections will be [...] Read more

Over the weekend, Mark Blumenthal of Pollster.com linked to Alex Bratty’s recent blog post, “Buyers’ Remorse?”
From an article by Politico’s Jonathan Martin regarding Sarah Palin’s Friday announcement that she was resigning as Governor of Alaska:
“There is just no good way to say quitting has made her more qualified to run for higher office,” said veteran [...] Read more

The Pasadena Star News includes a quotation from Neil Newhouse in an article about the DCCC targeting Rep. David Dreier’s seat in 2010.
If Dreier managed to get re-elected in 2008 during one of the toughest races for the Republican Party, it is not likely a Democratic candidate can unseat him in 2010, according to Neil [...] Read more

The Hill quoted Nicole McCleskey in an article about the rising popularity of Republican Congressional candidates in Western states due to recent heavy government spending.
“Western voters are quite independent, and they are looking for greater balance in government. There’s a rather serious concern over policy direction in the Obama administration,” said Nicole McCleskey, a Western [...] Read more

In an article about presidential popularity and the national debt, Newsweek mentioned Bill McInturff’s work with the Peter G. Peterson foundation.
Research by Bill McInturff and Peter Hart cited by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation puts the matter in even more telling perspective: 66 percent of registered voters say the deficit and debt pose a “very [...] Read more

Insurance Journal cited the results of a survey conducted in Florida  concerning insurance price deregulation.
The Credit Union Times included the results of a survey by POS and Hamilton Strategies that found credit unions to be the most popular financial institutions.
Volunteertv.com discusses the results of the Knox County mayor poll from earlier this month. Read more