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  Jon McHenry’s comments to NPR about the effect of the presidential debate format: Another is that the mute button could actually benefit Trump — by tamping down the aggressiveness that rubs some people the wrong way, according to Jon McHenry, a Republican pollster with North Star Opinion Research. He thinks many Americans feel they...

  Dan Judy’s comments to The Guardian on former President Donald Trump’s conquest of state Republican parties: “The big, sort of under-the-radar story in American politics over the last couple of years was the way Trump and his people had taken over state parties across the country,” said Dan Judy, a senior analyst for North Star...

The American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) recognized Whit Ayres’ 35-year career as a Republican political consultant by inducting him into their Hall of Fame at the Capitol Hilton on April 18, 2024. The event was attended by over 300 political consultants and AAPC members. Ayres has served as a pollster, mentor, and trusted advisor...

Whit joined Zac McCrary on the Pro Politics Podcast to discuss four decades in politics from the faculty at the University of South Carolina to Governor Carroll Campbell’s staff to starting and running a successful polling firm: https://propolitics.buzzsprout.com/1704139/14790220-whit-ayres-30-years-as-a-top-gop-pollster

(Note: this page was originally published in April 2020.)   In January 2020, our firm conducted a national online survey of voters for the Council for Affordable Health Coverage, focusing on voter attitudes toward health care generally and privacy of health care data specifically. In some ways, January was a lifetime ago. For that very...

by Whit Ayres as published November 17, 2019 in The Wall Street Journal. As the nation tumbles toward the 2020 presidential elections, it seems also on course for its second presidential impeachment in a little more than two decades. It all looks like so much chaos, but our likely path forward is illuminated by polls...

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