Whit Ayres’ comments on our joint Resurgent Republic/Democracy Corps poll for NPR: The poll concentrated on the Senate battleground — the 12 states that will determine control of the Senate next year. It found an electorate where nobody likes anybody. The president, the Republicans and the Democrats were viewed with equal disgust — their favorability...
Whit Ayres’ comments in the Boston Globe on ObamaCare as an issue in this year’s elections: Not so fast, retorts GOP pollster Whit Ayres: The ACA is still a hot issue where it really matters this year, which is in the dozen states with tight Senate races. “The health care law is one of the...
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.
Dan Judy’s comments on Obamacare and the President’s approval rating, for US News and World Report: Republican pollster Dan Judy, who has done polling for the NRCC, says that with Obama’s approval plummeting, “things are looking grim for House Democrats.” “Obamacare is likely to be an even bigger campaign issue than it was in 2010...
Whit Ayres’ post titled “The Obamacare Infection” was featured on National Review Online: Our polling has shown that the overwhelming majority of Americans simply did not believe most of the president’s promises about Obamacare. In March 2012, substantial majorities said that key claims he made about the law were false. For his claim that “the...
Whit Ayres’ comments on Morning Edition regarding ObamaCare: The message challenge for the White House has been and remains very significant. The president made a lot of promises about his healthcare plan that, according to our polling, most Americans never believed. They never believed that the plan would lower health insurance premiums for the average...
Whit Ayres’ comments for the Associated Press regarding Obamacare: “There’s no question the issue has legs, in part because it affects so many Americans very directly and in part because the glitches with the website are simply one of many fundamental problems with this law,” GOP pollster Whit Ayres said. To read the full article,...
Whit Ayres’ comments in Politico regarding ObamaCare in the 2014 elections: Republicans, they say, can just let the spotlight return to the federal Obamacare website that breaks all the time — and any other implementation oopsies that happen along the way. That process is already underway, as House Republicans plan hearings on the website issues...
Whit Ayres’ comments in Politico on President Obama, ObamaCare, and the budget impasse: “You reap what you sow,” said Whit Ayres, the veteran Republican pollster. “When you force through a major and very significant change to our economy, and you do it on a pure party-line vote, and at the very end change the rules...
Jon McHenry’s comments in US News and World Report on ObamaCare and a potential government shutdown: On its own, GOP pollster Jon McHenry says repealing and dismantling Obamacare is a great issue that attracts the Republican base, a majority of independents and even a fraction of Democratic voters to the GOP ticket. “Where we lose...
