… In remarks that dovetail Romney’s, VP nominee Paul Ryan indicated that urban, minority turnout was to blame for their loss. These comments reflect a broader theme: that Obama did not understand the problems of white Americans, and primarily focused his policies on the needs or demands of racial minorities. […] Read more »
Mitofsky Still Teaching
It’s been 6 years since our mentor, colleague, and friend’s death. Warren Mitofsky was a clear thinker and major innovator of the public polling community. Beyond his methodological rigor, he communicated long-lasting, yet, simple messages to the profession. His thoughts remain vital through the 2012 election cycle. Despite this year’s […] Read more »
Improved feelings about direction of U.S. boosted voter confidence in Obama
Despite talk of Mitt Romney’s momentum in the final weeks of the presidential campaign, Barack Obama cruised to a wide Electoral Vote victory and his popular-vote margin wound up closely mirroring George W. Bush’s 2004 victory. In fact, voter confidence in the president consistently improved as Election Day neared and […] Read more »
Frank Newport: Gallup’s election polling was sound
Gallup’s publicly released election polling has been the object of review and scrutiny this year, as has always been the case since Gallup first published pre-election polls in the 1936 election. [cont.] Frank Newport, Gallup (Omaha World-Herald) Read more »
For Latino Groups, Grass-Roots Efforts Paid Off in Higher Number of Voters
On Election Day, President Obama got 71 percent of the Latino vote nationally because, in the end, Latinos preferred his message over Mitt Romney’s. But how Latinos got that message — the relentless call to register, to vote, to participate — was as important as the message itself: Hispanic television […] Read more »
Two-thirds say fiscal cliff poses major problem
… Two-thirds of people questioned in a CNN/ORC International survey … say that the U.S. would face a crisis or major problems if the country went off the “fiscal cliff” at the end of the year, and if that happened, Republicans in Congress would probably receive the greater share of […] Read more »