Bloomberg Politics held focus groups with Republican and Democratic voters in New Hampshire. Their answers on Jeb Bush, electability and dysfunction in Washington were surprising. Bloomberg Politics Read more »
State of the Union 2015: Playing offense, President Obama makes gains on critical issues
Online dial testing with 61 white swing voters across the United States and two follow-up online focus groups – one with white non-college educated men and women and one with unmarried women – show that President Obama’s agenda to bring America closer together as a “tight knit family” scored big. […] Read more »
Bush, Clinton and the Fatigue Factor
… While a focus group of just a dozen voters is hardly a cross section of the entire electorate, this kind of qualitative research provides a color and texture that is simply not available through normal quantitative polling that surveys hundreds or thousands of voters. By examining average Americans’ actual […] Read more »
A signal of distaste for dynasties bodes ill for Bush, Clinton
… A dozen Denver-area residents spent two hours dissecting the state of the country and its politics. The 12 participants — Democrats, Republicans and independents — are weary of political dynasties. They were dismissive, sometimes harshly, in their assessments of Bush, the former Florida governor. They were also chilly toward […] Read more »
Some on Both Sides Ready to Ditch Dynasty Candidates for 2016
Two of the leading candidates for president in 2016 have a very familiar last name — and a bipartisan swathe of Americans are not happy about it. The political dynasties that have helped launch former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the top of […] Read more »
Why Dem voters may not show up this fall
Countless pixels have been expended on the Democrats’ “midterm drop-off problem,” in which core Democratic groups such as young voters, minorities and single women are expected to go to the polls in lower percentages than GOP groups, putting Dem control of the Senate in peril. What if a key part […] Read more »