Whit Ayres’ comments on NPR’s All Things Considered regarding President Obama’s second inaugural address: Republicans were hoping for something akin to the president’s 2004 convention speech where he talked about there being no red America or blue America, but a United States of America. But his tone yesterday was 180 degrees away from that tone...
Jon McHenry’s comments in The Hill regarding Republicans and the changing American electorate: “We can argue back and forth about policies. But it’s not possible to argue against the math of a changing electorate,” said Republican consultant Jon McHenry, whose firm North Star Opinion Research numbers Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) among its clients. … Even...
Our post-election survey for Resurgent Republic, conducted November 6-8, shows that the 2012 election marks the year when the inexorable march of demographic change caught up with the Republican Party. While multiple factors led to President Obama’s reelection, none was as important as rapidly increasing demographic change in the American electorate. For the full analysis,...
Whit Ayres’ comments on the Republican party and Hispanic voters, on the NBC News website: “The handwriting is on the wall,” said Republican pollster Whit Ayres, the co-founder of a group called “Resurgent Republic.” “Until Republican candidates figure out how to perform better among non-white voters, especially Hispanics and Asians, Republican presidential contenders will have...
Whit Ayres’ comments on NPR regarding the changing electorate: To read the transcript please click here.
Whit Ayres’ comments in the New York Times regarding Hispanic and younger voters: Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster, noted that Mr. Romney did better than Mr. McCain among white voters, and won independents by 5 percentage points, all to no avail. “It is patently obvious that unless Republicans do better among nonwhite voters, they will...
Whit Ayres’ comments in National Journal regarding Republicans and the Hispanic vote: “We are in a position now where we have to—through differences in policy, differences in tone, and differences in candidates—reach out [to minorities] in a way we’ve never reached out before,” says veteran GOP pollster Whit Ayres. “Or we will not be successful...
Whit Ayres’ comments on the changing electorate in USA Today: “If Romney was going to win, it was by getting a larger and larger share of the white vote,” Ayres says. “At some point, you run out of votes to get that way. A larger-and-larger piece of a smaller-and-smaller share of the pie ultimately becomes...
Whit Ayres’ comments on the unemployment report in USA Today: But the Labor Department report that once was seen as a potential “October surprise” — that is, the sort of late-breaking news that could dramatically shift votes — is instead one more sign that a slow but relatively steady economic recovery is continuing. “It’s not...
From Whit Ayres and Jon McHenry’s opinion piece in Politico regarding an Electoral College tie: Fast-forward to the morning of Nov. 7. The votes are in and the unthinkable has happened. The Electoral College is tied 269-269. A deadlocked presidential election. Here’s one way it could happen: In addition to the core Republican states, Mitt...
