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 [...]

 

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: A look at the [...]

 

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: Nate Silver’s analysis of [...]

 

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 [...]

 

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’s position coming out [...]

 

WPA Releases Numbers in UT Senate Race

The following memo outlines key data from a survey conducted April 11-14 2012 of 306 Republican caucus delegates in Utah. Caucus Delegate Brushfire Survey State of the Race

 

Chris Wilson on the Willis Report

WPA CEO Chris Wilson was on the Willis Report to discuss ObamaCare’s taxes, a new plan for reporting jobless claims, Obama’s approval rating, the potential write-downs at Fannie & Freddie, and bonuses for Kodak’s executives. ObamaCare Taxes: This is just another case of an arrogant and stubborn commitment by the Obama Administration to push forward with their Healthcare take-over at [...]

 

Why the Media Silence on Operation Fast and Furious?

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 [...]

 

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: Data from WPA’s newly [...]

 

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 [...]

 

WPA Releases GOP Presidential Numbers in Texas

Methodology Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research conducted a research study of likely Republican primary voters across the state of Texas. Respondents were screened to ensure that they were neither a member of the news media or a public relations company. The sample for this survey was stratified based on gender, age, and geography. This methodology [...]

 

President Approval Rating Still Upside Down

President Obama continues to have dismal approval ratings, as 43% of Americans approve of the job he is doing, while 48% disapprove of his job performance as President.  Here’s the lasted Gallup chart that tracks daily the President’s job approval rating.   % Approve % Disapprove 03/3-5/2012 43% 48% 03/2-4/2012 45% 48% 03/1-3/2012 48% 46% [...]

 

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. [...]

 

Polarization and Politics

Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake over at The Fix posted an interesting analysis of Gallup data showing that opinions of Barack Obama are the most polarized by political party of any President at this point in his term in recent history.  George W. Bush was second at this point in his presidency and also had [...]

 

Obama Trails in Swing States

In the latest USA Today/Gallup poll of 12 swing states, Barack Obama trails Mitt Romney in 48% to 47%.     The problem for Obama is that the swing states include in the poll are all states won by Obama in 2008 by an aggregate of 8 points. These states also represent 151 electoral votes [...]

 

Resetting the Presidential Race: Obama Vulnerability

It is now less than 11 months until American voters will pick our next (and hopefully new) President.  While most of the stories you’ll read are, rightly, about the Republican nominating contests, the fundamentals of the general elections are taking shape around us every day and worth an examination. So let’s take a look at [...]

 

Gallup Comparison of 2012 GOP Primary versus 2003 Dem Primary

PRINCETON, NJ — The lead in the Republican nomination race has thus far changed seven times since May in Gallup polling. Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, and Newt Gingrich each held the top spot at various points in 2011, with Romney’s standing rising and falling as other candidates surged and faded. Mike Huckabee led [...]

 

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