Republicans are in general agreement about one central premise as we look ahead to future elections—we must do better with Hispanic voters. That begins with challenging some long held assumptions. Data referenced below is taken from a post-election survey conducted in New Mexico among 500 voters who cast a ballot […] Read more »
Voters to Washington in 2012: What’s the Plan?
… Despite an electorate that thought the economy was not doing well under Obama, Romney and many Republicans were unable to effectively win the economic argument. This was the case even though many of the policies Romney supported were viewed favorably by the electorate. But the bottom line was that […] Read more »
After divisive election, voters support balanced approach to budget crisis
… A balanced approach to solving the deficit problem, which focuses on raising taxes as well as cutting major programs, is popular among American voters overall. … But although there is general support for a balanced approach, an agreement on the details of revenue increases and program cuts may be […] Read more »
Institute of Politics 2012 Campaign Decision Makers Conference
Audio excerpts from the Nov. 29 Campaign Decision Makers Conference at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, which brought together operatives from the Obama and Romney campaigns and members of the media. (Additional audio is available at the IOP website.) Read more »
Swing Counties Tell Story of Republicans’ Defeat
When it comes to Pennsylvania’s presidential politics, Republicans are like the cartoon character Charlie Brown, who every time he prepares to kick a football, it gets pulled back by his pal Lucy. This time, it was Mitt Romney who was tempted to go for the prize, as his camp poured […] Read more »
Crunching the numbers shows how Obama and Romney were polls apart
… The Obama campaign combined three levels of data to peg the state of the race against Mitt Romney. The campaign conducted aggregated battleground polls for message testing, individual state tracking polls by multiple pollsters to understand where the campaign was standing in each state, and individual state parallel surveys […] Read more »