Resurgent Republic and the Hispanic Leadership Network jointly surveyed Hispanics who voted in the 2012 Presidential election in four critical states: Florida, Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico. The results make clear the size of the hole Republicans have dug among Hispanic voters over the past eight years. At a time […] Read more »
Video: The Year in Politics
The Wall Street Journal presents a look back at a historic year in politics, including how Mitt Romney won the GOP’s nomination, the Supreme Court ruling on ObamaCare and how Barack Obama overcame a tough economy to decisively win re-election. Read more »
Add This Group To Obama’s Winning Coalition: ‘Religiously Unaffiliated’
The big demographic story out of the 2012 presidential election may have been President Obama’s domination of the Hispanic vote, and rightfully so. But as we close the book on the election, it bears noting that another less obvious bloc of key swing state voters helped the president win a […] Read more »
The auto bailout didn’t decide the election
In the wake of the first 2012 presidential debate, as former governor Mitt Romney gained ground in swing-state and especially national polls, a narrative took hold about the importance of the auto bailout. The Buckeye State was likely to decide the election, President Obama was over-performing in Ohio relative the […] Read more »
Election 2012 Post Mortem: White Evangelicals and Support for Romney
… A Pew Research Center analysis of exit poll data finds that white evangelical Protestants voted for Romney with as much enthusiasm as his other supporters did. In addition, white evangelical Protestants voted as heavily for Romney as they did for the GOP candidates in 2008 and 2004, and they […] Read more »
Not everyone got it all wrong (notes from our analysis of results and thoughts on a path forward)
We’ve heard a lot lately about how wrong Republican polling was in 2012. Some of it was very wrong and even some of our polling was wrong, but it’s not all of it was always wrong and we seem to have been closer to right than many. This post is […] Read more »