WPA’s Weekly Political Brief
As part of our continuing effort to keep our clients and friends up-to-date on the political environment as we head toward Election Day, 2012, every Friday WPA compiles the key numbers from the week and provides analysis of key trends. In addition to the key political numbers, this week’s analysis includes: Three key swing states, [...]
Obama as a Hawk, is there a foreign policy argument for re-election?
Asked at any point before May 1st of last year, the question above would have been ridiculous. Outside of liberal intellectuals and college students, whose idea of “restoring America’s reputation in the world” is something on the order of “surrender and tell the bad guys you want to be friends,” few would have credited the [...]
PPP Survey – TX Sen: Dewhurst Begins to Falter
(from the PRIsm Political Report) Public Policy Polling released the results of their latest Texas US Senate Republican primary survey (4/19-22; 400 TX likely GOP primary voters) revealing that prohibitive favorite David Dewhurst, the state’s three-term Lt. Governor, may be headed to a run-off election with former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz, a first-time [...]
WI, DC and MD Presidential Primary Results
In swing Wisconsin, Romney won, but his 42-38% margin over Santorum was again unimpressive. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX-14) placed third with 12%, followed by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s 6%. But, Maryland might have been a bit more surprising. Though it was a clean win for Romney, as all expected, he still couldn’t break the [...]
Illinois Primary Results
(from the PRIsm Political Report) Mitt Romney easily won the Illinois primary last night finishing exactly as the late polls predicted, 47-35% over Rick Santorum. Delegate-wise, it is more difficult to project this soon into the post-election process because Illinois is a “loophole primary” and voters were actually choosing individuals on the ballot to fill [...]
WPA’s Weekly Political Brief
As part of our continuing effort to keep our clients and friends up-to-date on the political environment as we head toward Election Day, 2012, every Friday WPA compiles the key numbers from the week and provides analysis of key trends. In addition to the key political numbers, this week’s analysis includes: Romney and potential trouble [...]
Looking Ahead to Super Tuesday
(from the PRIsm political report) It’s quite possible that Super Tuesday, designed to give one presidential candidate a boost toward the eventual party nomination, may not be particularly definitive in 2012. Initial polling has been published, or trends are clear, in nine of the thirteen states hosting caucuses or primaries on or before Super Tuesday, [...]
New Numbers in Massachusetts and Hawaii
(from the PRIsm Political Report) Hawaii The Hawaii US Senate campaign is turning crazy. Now, another new poll reports starkly different results to some others already in the public domain. Ward Research, a Hawaii-based survey research firm, conducted a new poll with an abnormally long sampling period for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser newspaper (1/26-2/5; [...]
WPA Poll: Manzullo/Kinzinger Tied in IL-16
(from RollCall) By Shira Toeplitz Posted at 1:24 p.m. today Rep. Adam Kinzinger (above) faces fellow GOP Rep. Don Manzullo in a primary next month. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo) Illinois Republicans Don Manzullo and Adam Kinzinger are locked in a competitive primary, according to a new survey from a super PAC supporting Kinzinger. [...]
The Truth About the Generic Ballot
An interesting comment caught my eye in the Washington Post’s The Fix blog yesterday. The article repeated a Democratic talking point that Democrats lead on the generic ballot by “several points” and this is evidence that they might take back the house. For those of us who have worked in polling for more than a [...]
Republicans Must Stand up to Occupy Wall Street Protests
Several clients and friends have asked for our thoughts on the Occupy protests and their impact on public opinion. This is fueled, perhaps, by the fact that some Republicans and Republican consultants are of the belief that the Occupy protests reflect a real threat to conservatives. Perhaps most notably, Frank Luntz[1] recently claimed to be [...]
Why the Media Silence on Operation Fast and Furious?
Posted by Chris Wilson on Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 at 10:53 AM
It wouldn’t be surprising if you missed it, but the White House is refusing to allow a Congressional Committee access to a key witness in the ongoing probe into Operation Fast and Furious. Operation Fast and Furious is, of course, the incredibly stupid policy of letting automatic weapons find their way into the hands of [...]