Newly installed Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway is doing her best to keep the notoriously off-message candidate on script. He’s moving – or more accurately – stumbling into a more centrist position on immigration reform. He’s doing debate prep. His latest campaign ad sticks to the economy and not conspiracy […] Read more »
For Milwaukee Focus Group, Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Appeal But Donald Trump Is Too Risky
If you look at the latest surveys and listen to David Plouffe, who thinks the presidential election is “likely going to be a landslide,” you might think this race is settled. … The problem with this analysis is that the 2016 electorate is unlike those that produced the landslides of […] Read more »
Swing Voters Agree: This Election Stinks
Swing voters have heard little in recent weeks to help them make up their minds on who to support in a presidential race that they say flat out stinks. That was the takeaway from a focus group of a dozen voters who have supported both a Republican and Democratic presidential […] Read more »
Of Electoral Maps, Emails and Pivots
With just under three months to go in election 2016, some things, specifically the Electoral College math, look much clearer. Clinton not only has a decided lead, but she has a deeper, wider path to 270 than Trump does. Then there’s the stuff that makes the election look less stable […] Read more »
Focus group: Trump’s ‘erratic’ attacks are costing him supporters
Donald Trump is alienating his own supporters because of his sometimes “erratic” and inflammatory ad hominem attacks, according to a focus group held Saturday by pollster and Republican strategist Frank Luntz. “He was my first choice. But just along the way, he has — I guess you can say he’s […] Read more »
The Message in a Longtime Conservative Tilting Away From Trump, Toward Clinton
In this election cycle, polls have been the least reliable guide to understanding what voters are looking for in the next president of the United States. They tell us who is ahead and behind at a given moment but don’t convey what is going on behind respondents’ preferences. Still, I […] Read more »