Whit Ayres’ comments in the Wall Street Journal regarding Republican pickup opportunities in the U.S. Senate this cycle: Perhaps the toughest challenges for the GOP are in red states where incumbents are fighting battles they have long expected. They include Democrats Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Mark Begich of Alaska and Mark Pryor of Arkansas, who...
Whit Ayres’ comments for Fox News Latino on Rick Perry’s indictment and presidential bid: Whit Ayers, a Republican pollster in Washington, D.C., said the subtext of a liberal area’s indictment of conservative Republican stands to give Perry a boost, should he decide to run for president in 2016. The Democrats pushing the case against Perry,...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Hill regarding outside groups in Senate races: “Money is necessary but not sufficient for political success,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster and strategist. “The record is replete with candidates who have outspent their opponents and still lost.” Ayres said the effectiveness of advertising by outside groups depends largely on...
Our survey with GQRR for NPR was featured on today’s broadcast of Morning Edition, and highlights the tough road ahead for Democrats in swing Senate seats. To read the article, please click here.
Jon McHenry’s comments on Republican primaries and immigration reform for Fox News Latino: “Lindsey Graham was able to talk about what the Senate bill actually does,” said Jon McHenry of the Republican pollster Northstar Opinion Research. “He took it out of the context of just amnesty.” “People who run successfully in support of immigration reform...
Whit Ayres’ comments on immigration reform and Republican primary voters in Politico: Pollsters at the briefing, however, say their surveys didn’t find any evidence of greater intensity among immigration reform opponents. And Whit Ayres, one of the pollsters, said Graham was a better test case of how immigration reform plays in a GOP primary —...
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...
