Whit Ayres’ comments for Time on the Republican approach to addressing poverty: While both parties bemoan many of the same symptoms, they hardly agree on the disease, let alone the medicine. Democrats focus on income inequality: the gap between the nation’s highest and lowest earners is at its greatest level since the Roaring Twenties. Republicans,...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Hill on Senator Marco Rubio’s War on Poverty speech: “If you go back and listen to the speeches Marco Rubio gave when he was a Senate candidate in Florida, expanding access to the American dream was at the core of his message,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster who counts...
Whit Ayres’ comments in Politico regarding public opinion of gay marriage: Republican strategist Whit Ayres said the Cheney clash is “symptomatic” of America’s divide on gay marriage. “Everybody has been reconsidering their view on this issue,” he said. “It doesn’t mean everybody has changed their minds, but a great many people have reconsidered their views....
Whit Ayres’ post titled “The Obamacare Infection” was featured on National Review Online: Our polling has shown that the overwhelming majority of Americans simply did not believe most of the president’s promises about Obamacare. In March 2012, substantial majorities said that key claims he made about the law were false. For his claim that “the...
Whit Ayres’ comments on the Virginia gubernatorial race and implications for Republicans for ABC News: “If the polls hold true and [Ken] Cuccinelli loses, it shows that successful Republicans drive down the middle of the right-hand side of the road — they don’t drive off into the ditch on the right,” said Whit Ayres, a...
Whit Ayres’ comments on Morning Edition regarding ObamaCare: The message challenge for the White House has been and remains very significant. The president made a lot of promises about his healthcare plan that, according to our polling, most Americans never believed. They never believed that the plan would lower health insurance premiums for the average...
Whit Ayres’ comments for the Associated Press regarding Obamacare: “There’s no question the issue has legs, in part because it affects so many Americans very directly and in part because the glitches with the website are simply one of many fundamental problems with this law,” GOP pollster Whit Ayres said. To read the full article,...
Dan Judy’s comments for U.S. News and World Report on immigration reform proposals in the House. Dan Judy, a Republican pollster at North Star Opinion Research, says the Cantor plan strikes the right balance for the GOP, which must walk a fine line with immigration reform. While many want to court Latino voters on the...
Whit Ayres’ comments in Politico regarding ObamaCare in the 2014 elections: Republicans, they say, can just let the spotlight return to the federal Obamacare website that breaks all the time — and any other implementation oopsies that happen along the way. That process is already underway, as House Republicans plan hearings on the website issues...
USA TODAY/Bipartisan Policy Center Survey on Electoral Reforms
FeaturedHome PagePolitical ClimatePoll ReleasesOctober 15, 2013
Our survey on electoral reforms, conducted with our colleagues at The Mellman Group for the Bipartisan Policy Center and USA TODAY, was featured in Susan Page’s story on October 15: WASHINGTON — The capital’s shutdowns and showdowns have tested the patience even of the Senate chaplain. “Save us from the madness,” he prayed at the...
