Whit Ayres’ comments on immigration reform and Republican primary voters in Politico: Pollsters at the briefing, however, say their surveys didn’t find any evidence of greater intensity among immigration reform opponents. And Whit Ayres, one of the pollsters, said Graham was a better test case of how immigration reform plays in a GOP primary —...
Whit Ayres’ comments on the Republican party primary season in The Washington Post: That means establishment Republicans must court the tea party. “You have to reach out very aggressively and indicate that as the nominee of the party you will be the voice of all the various parts of the party,” Whit Ayres, a GOP...
Whit Ayres’ comments for the Wall Street Journal on Democratic messaging for the 2014 election: The White House strategy is taking shape in a macro-micro approach, similar to the one Mr. Obama’s campaign deployed in 2012, when Democrats essentially ran a series of local campaigns in fewer than a dozen states. The party’s overarching argument...
Whit Ayres’ comments to National Journal regarding blue-collar white voters: “Blue-collar whites have been migrating to the Republican Party ever since Ronald Reagan called them Reagan Democrats,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster. “It’s a culture that is heavily family based, more small-town and rural. It’s very pro-gun, and very patriotic. We’re talking about a...
Whit Ayres’ comments for CNN regarding ObamaCare and the midterm elections: Republican pollster Whit Ayers said there’s a more powerful factor in voter fatigue: Obama himself. Six years into a President’s term, “people get tired of that person’s leadership,” he said. “Especially this President’s.” To read the full article, please click here.
Whit Ayres’ comments in USA Today regarding our joint survey with The Mellman Group for the Bipartisan Policy Center. For many in the GOP, Ayres says, attitudes toward President Obama and the perception that he’s unwilling to compromise are driving the shift in views. “Republicans in particular realize that the best they’re going to do...
Whit Ayres’ comments on the Hispanic vote and GOP prospects in 2014 and 2016 in the Los Angeles Times: In 2012, exit polls show Mitt Romney beat Obama by 20 percentage points among white voters, which made up 72% of the electorate, while losing resoundingly among all other racial groups. In this November’s midterm election,...
Whit Ayres’ comments for the Washington Post‘s PlumLine blog regarding immigration reform and electoral trends: GOP pollster Whit Ayres, who favors reform, tells me Republicans should take the two point rise in critical swing states very seriously. “It’s significant,” Ayres says. “Some aspects of the future are difficult to see clearly. The increasing proportion of...
North Star Opinion Research President Whit Ayres appeared at CPAC on Saturday to talk about electoral trends and the future of the Republican Party. Click here to download his presentation.
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Christian Science Monitor regarding Republican electoral prospects and Obamacare: “Anti-Obamacare and anti-Obama leadership is the core message,” says Republican pollster Whit Ayres. “But people vote for things as well as against things, and the smartest politicians I’ve ever worked with all believe in the importance of having a positive agenda....
