Jon McHenry’s comments on the third presidential debate focused on foreign policy: “The economy is the first, second and third most important issue for virtually everybody,” says Republican pollster Jon McHenry. “But foreign policy is something voters care about at the presidential level.” For the full article, please click here.
Dan Judy’s comments on NPR regarding a bipartisan survey of rural voters in swing states conducted for the Center for Rural Strategies with Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research: “What Republican candidates need to do is to rack up big margins in rural areas in order to offset smaller [Republican] margins in urban and suburban areas,” says...
Dan Judy’s comments regarding the first presidential debate on ABCNews.com and Yahoo News: “In terms of style, I think you’re going to see Mitt Romney be fairly aggressive,” said Republican strategist and pollster Dan Judy. When Obama last faced a debate opponent as a presidential candidate, he had little in the way of a record...
Whit Ayres, October 1
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Whit Ayres’ comments in Politico regarding polling and partisan identification: Yet some Republicans, seeing some polls with a partisan identification breakdown unlikely to resemble the make-up of a state, believe it’s time to start weighting by party. Veteran GOP pollster Whit Ayres said his preference would be for survey takers to weight their data according...
Dan Judy’s comments in The Hill regarding Governor Romney’s message: Romney’s best shot at a winning argument is relatively simple, his supporters say. The GOP’s case: Obama misunderstands the economy because he believes in the primacy of government action, whereas Romney believes in the private sector and knows how to liberate it, thus leading America...
Jon McHenry, September 27
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Jon McHenry’s comments in David Weigel’s Slate blog post regarding redistricting: [Democrats’] best hope for taking back control later this decade is that the districts shift their demographics. In a quote I didn’t use, Republican pollster John McHenry weighed that possibility “It’s hard to predict out a full decade,” he said. “If the economy stays...
Jon McHenry, September 26
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Jon McHenry’s comments in Slate about the redistricting process and the effect on control of the House of Representatives: The Republican advantage was tremendous. Most states give the power of the map to whomever happens to run the legislature. As 2011 began, Democrats only controlled the redistricting process for 47 seats—safe blue turf like Maryland...
Whit Ayres on the Journal Editorial Report, Sept 22
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Whit Ayres appeared on the Journal Editorial Report with Paul Gigot to discuss the presidential contest: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
Whit Ayres, September 16
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Whit Ayres’ comments in The Washington Post‘s “The Fix” blog regarding the gap between voter preferences and predicted outcomes: “The ballot question is driven by who voters want to win,” said Republican pollster Whit Ayres. “The ‘Who do you think will win?’ question is driven by pundits and commentators who want Obama to win.” Added...
Dan Judy’s comments in Roll Call regarding control of the Senate: “It’s one of those situations where there are enough close races in swing states that I think whoever wins the presidency will probably win the Senate,” said Dan Judy, a Republican pollster at North Star Opinion Research. … “My sense is that it’s definitely...
