Whit Ayres’ comments about ticket splitting and voters’ decisions in Governing: Ayres, the GOP consultant, says that citizens make different calculations when voting for the Senate — where they’re choosing someone who will primarily just cast votes — than governor, where they’re electing someone with real decision-making authority. “Governors make life and death decisions, whether...
Jon McHenry’s comments to The Boston Globe regarding Donald Trump’s effect on the midterm elections: Now after four tumultuous years in office, three straight disappointing Republican elections, two impeachments, and one deadly insurrection, Trump is a known political entity — and one whoseems to be rapidly losing popularity among Republicans just as he announced another White...
Dan Judy’s comments in The Hill regarding election denials and U.S. Senate results: “It’s not difficult to imagine Chris Sununu beating Maggie Hassan without a whole lot of trouble,” Republican strategist Dan Judy said. Judy added, in reference to Bolduc: “By the time he started to pivot his campaign to the things voters were really concerned about,...
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Whit Ayres’ comments to CNN regarding abortion policy and the midterm elections: Veteran GOP pollster Whit Ayres says this separation testifies to the value of allowing states to set their own rules on contentious social issues, particularly abortion. This “is exactly why allowing the states to follow their own cultural values on such an emotionally...
Whit Ayres’ comments to the Associated Press regarding election denialism and Republican election results: “It turns out that trying to overturn an election is not wildly popular with the American people,” said Whit Ayres, a veteran Republican pollster. That even extends to Arizona, Ayres added, where a prominent former television newscaster-turned-election-conspiracy-theorist, Kari Lake, remains in...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The New Republic on the national mood and midterm elections: “Republicans should be running away with this election. With [President] Biden’s job approval in the low 40s, with inflation at a 40-year high and not moderating, with crime a serious problem in many cities, and with the border still not under...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Atlantic about the effects of polarization: “The difference in policy now between the group that has 51 percent and the group that has 49 percent is so enormous because of the polarization and divergence of the two parties,” the longtime GOP pollster Whit Ayres told me. Such big change resting...
Dan Judy’s comments in Politico on new methodologies: “For us, any experimentation in real time has consequences,” said Dan Judy, a Republican pollster with North Star Opinion Research. “You have to be careful about what you’re doing. If you try it the old way, and the old way is dead, then you end up with...
Whit Ayres’ comments to the Associated Press regarding Joe Biden’s approval rating: So the president spent the evening essentially asking for a fresh start, born of the most serious conflict with Russia in a generation, and another chance to explain his domestic agenda. “He’s got his back to the wall, and he’s put his party’s...
Whit Ayres’ comments to NBC News regarding the effect of foreign policy decisions on elections: “As a general rule, foreign policy events that do not involve American kids dying in a war pale in comparison to domestic issues,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster. “As long as Americans are not dying — as they were...
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