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 in the Asbury Park Press on Republican candidates efforts with Hispanic voters: “Conservative Republicans can get a significant share of the Hispanic vote provided they reach out aggressively and campaign in Hispanic communities,” Whit Ayres, a GOP pollster, told USA Today in November 2013. “It makes a huge difference when you have...
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,...
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’ 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...
USA TODAY/Bipartisan Policy Center Survey on Electoral Reforms
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Our survey on electoral reforms, conducted with our colleagues at The Mellman Group for the Bipartisan Policy Center and USA TODAY, was featured in Susan Page’s story on October 15: WASHINGTON — The capital’s shutdowns and showdowns have tested the patience even of the Senate chaplain. “Save us from the madness,” he prayed at the...
