Whit Ayres’ comments in The Atlantic regarding the nationalization of state and local elections: “We’ve had increasing nationalization of our politics in an almost straight line for the past 25 years,” Whit Ayres, a veteran Republican pollster based in Virginia, told me. “You used to say all politics is local. That seems like an anachronistic...
Whit Ayres’ comments to Yahoo News regarding President Biden’s job approval ratings: For Republican pollster Whit Ayres, the social welfare and climate package alone would also not restore Biden’s approval because the drop was caused by multiple factors. Ayres, the president of North Star Opinion Research, listed the COVID-19 pandemic, a sluggish post-lockdown economy, the...
Whit Ayres’ comments in the Associated Press about the popularity of legislative proposals and the effect on midterm elections: To Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster, “the popularity of particular policies has been overwhelmed by the power of partisanship and polarization.” To read the full article, please click here.
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Whit Ayres’ comments on the political effect of tying Republican candidates to President Trump: Which means there has probably never been a midterm election when a former president was as much a part of the political dialogue as Trump is now. The Virginia result will offer a first gauge of how much that new factor...
Dan Judy’s comments in The Hill about President Biden’s political standing: Republican strategist Dan Judy asserted that “the bloom is off the Joe Biden rose” after about nine months in power. From a political standpoint, “Democrats are going to need the COVID tide to recede and the economy to surge forward if they really are...
Dan Judy’s comments in The Hill regarding President Trump’s position in the political landscape: Still, when Trump tries to show his muscle by offering an endorsement, there is always the danger that the results will cut in the opposite direction. “When he was president of the United States and he could lay the anointing finger...
Whit Ayres’ comments to The Guardian regarding Republican office holders encouraging their constituents to get vaccinated against COVID-19: One thing that’s clear among pollsters: the change in tone from Republican lawmakers has not been prompted by new polling. Rather it’s because of the increasing urgency that US political figures are feeling about a pandemic that...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The New York Times on COVID vaccines and politics: “Traditionally Republicans have been very against government interference in free enterprise, and into the workings of the private market,” said Whit Ayres, a veteran Republican pollster. He said it was too early to say how vaccine politics would affect the 2022 midterms,...
Whit Ayres’ comments to National Public Radio regarding the GOP and declining Christian identification in the electorate: This makes religion one key part of a looming, long-term demographic challenge for Republicans, says Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster. “Republicans clearly have a stronger hold among the religiously affiliated, especially evangelical Protestants. And consequently, any decline in...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Wall Street Journal regarding House Republicans voting to remove Liz Cheney from party leadership: Whit Ayres, a GOP pollster based in Alexandria, Va., argued that if the GOP wants to rally a majority of the electorate behind its agenda, the party can’t afford for its base to contract. “The GOP...
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