A new national poll of America’s 18- to 29- year-olds by Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, finds slightly more than half (51%) of young Americans who say they will “definitely be voting” in November prefer a Republican-run Congress with 47 percent […] Read more »
Latino Support for Democrats Falls, but Democratic Advantage Remains
After more than a year of inaction by Congress and President Obama on immigration reform, Democrats maintain a wide, but diminished, advantage among Hispanic registered voters, according to a new nationwide survey of 1,520 Hispanic adults, including 733 registered voters, by the Pew Research Center. CONT. Pew Read more »
Democratic Pollster: Midterm Voters Want to Punish Obama, Not Reward Republicans
Republicans eyeing a Senate majority in Tuesday’s election are burdened by an unappealing party brand on policy issues that didn’t exist in the last midterm election, according to a leading Democratic pollster. “There was no content to the Republican brand” in 2010 and there is now “a much more robust […] Read more »
The Midterm Elections and the GOP’s Future
Edward Goeas is CEO of the Tarrance Group, one of the largest Republican-only polling firms in the country. The Tarrance Group is currently working on eight gubernatorial races, nine U.S. Senate races, and over 60 congressional races. Goeas spoke to the Georgetown Public Policy Review about the upcoming midterm elections […] Read more »
Keeping polls in context
The poll was called “humiliating,” “a whopper for the ages,” a “disgrace” — I said it may have been right, at the time it was done. Five months ago, everyone was talking about Eric Cantor’s errant poll: the one that showed him 34 points ahead, before he lost by 11. […] Read more »
Economic, Political Discontent Make for a Midterm Double Punch
A double punch of economic and political dissatisfaction marks public attitudes in the closing week of the 2014 midterm campaign – a dynamic that reflects poorly on the president’s performance, bolstering his Republican opponents. The discontent in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll is palpable. Despite its fitful gains, seven […] Read more »