As the Republican convention gets underway, more Americans express interest in learning about what’s in the GOP platform than in the speeches by either Mitt Romney or his running mate. [cont.] Pew Read more »
Most Americans Still Predict Obama Will Win 2012 Election
Most Americans believe President Obama will win the presidential election this fall, even though the race has been highly competitive for most of the year. Americans’ expectation that Obama will win has been remarkably consistent, virtually unchanged since May despite three intervening months of campaigning. [cont.] Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Read more »
Forward? Voters Don’t Think So
In his campaign messaging, President Obama claims the mantle of “Forward.” But voters fundamentally disagree with that characterization of the country. Only 39 percent of likely voters today say the country is moving forward. That is one reason why the fundamentals of the 2012 election favor Republicans as they gather […] Read more »
Tracking Poll Wave 1: Latino vote uphill climb for Romney
Just before the beginning of the Republican National Convention in Tampa presidential candidate Mitt Romney continues to overwhelmingly lose the Latino vote and has low levels of favorability among the majority of the Latino electorate. The first weekly tracking poll of Latino registered voters by Latino Decisions and impreMedia reveals […] Read more »
Making The Election About Race
The Republican ticket is flooding the airwaves with commercials that develop two themes designed to turn the presidential contest into a racially freighted resource competition pitting middle class white voters against the minority poor. … The importance to the Romney-Ryan ticket of two overlapping constituencies — whites without college degrees […] Read more »
Obama, Romney neck-and-neck ahead of party conventions
The Republican National Convention opens this week with President Obama and presumptive nominee Mitt Romney running evenly, with voters more focused on Obama’s handling of the nation’s flagging economy than on some issues dominating the political debate in recent weeks. … The findings continue a months-long pattern, with neither the […] Read more »