Whit Ayres’ comments on the Republican party primary season in The Washington Post: That means establishment Republicans must court the tea party. “You have to reach out very aggressively and indicate that as the nominee of the party you will be the voice of all the various parts of the party,” Whit Ayres, a GOP...
Whit Ayres’ comments for the Wall Street Journal on Democratic messaging for the 2014 election: The White House strategy is taking shape in a macro-micro approach, similar to the one Mr. Obama’s campaign deployed in 2012, when Democrats essentially ran a series of local campaigns in fewer than a dozen states. The party’s overarching argument...
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,...
Whit Ayres’ comments for the Washington Post‘s PlumLine blog regarding immigration reform and electoral trends: GOP pollster Whit Ayres, who favors reform, tells me Republicans should take the two point rise in critical swing states very seriously. “It’s significant,” Ayres says. “Some aspects of the future are difficult to see clearly. The increasing proportion of...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Christian Science Monitor regarding Republican electoral prospects and Obamacare: “Anti-Obamacare and anti-Obama leadership is the core message,” says Republican pollster Whit Ayres. “But people vote for things as well as against things, and the smartest politicians I’ve ever worked with all believe in the importance of having a positive agenda....
Whit Ayres’ comments on Republican economic messages in Politico: That doesn’t necessarily mean they need to nationalize the election with one agenda, like House Republicans’ “Contract With America” in 1994 or their “Pledge to America” in 2010. But Republican candidates should at least have their own economic alternatives, said GOP pollster Whit Ayres: “What would...
Dan Judy’s comments in US News and World Report regarding the debt limit vote: “Getting the debt limit out of the way is a great move for Republicans, because every time they pick a fight on that issue, they lose and make themselves more unpopular in the process,” says Dan Judy, a Republican pollster. “Republicans...
Whit Ayres’ comments in the Wall Street Journal regarding the debt limit vote: “The government shutdown was a watershed moment,” said Whit Ayres, a GOP pollster. The speaker’s decision to allow a debt-limit increase reflects “the recognition we need to find other strategies and better tactics for advancing a conservative fiscal agenda.” To read the...
