We are proud to announce that the American Association of Political Consultants has named North Star Opinion Research its 2012 Republican Pollster of the Year: Whit and his firm, North Star Opinion Research, founded Resurgent Republic with former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie. Resurgent Republic conducts polling and focus groups for center-right political candidates and organizations. Through the use...
Whit Ayres’ comments on the Republican presidential primary election in the Wall Street Journal: “Making a wise decision about when to get out is one of the most important decisions playing into a candidate’s legacy—not only when to get out, but what to say when you do,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster who worked...
Whit Ayres’s comments on the Republican primary race: Whit Ayres, a longtime Republican pollster, who worked on Jon M. Huntsman Jr.’s campaign this year, offered Mr. Romney this advice: “Let your smart operatives do the process stuff. You do the vision thing.” The emphasis on delegates explains why Mr. Santorum and Mr. Romney are dedicating...
Whit Ayres’ comments on the President’s reelection prospects, in the Dayton Daily News: Whit Ayres, a Republican consultant in Virginia, said that “the primary obstacle the president faces is that he could not win a referendum on his record today.’’ “It’s pretty clear that the Obama campaign plan is to so thoroughly trash the Republican...
Whit Ayres’s comments on New Hampshire’s law regulating “push polls”: A top national pollster says stepped-up enforcement by the New Hampshire attorney general of the law governing political push polling is hindering pollsters’ ability to do legitimate market research and “persuasion” calls in the state. The law, coupled with the way the attorney general’s office...
Whit Ayres’s comments on Latino voters, Whit Ayres, the founder and President of North Star Opinion Research, a national public opinion research firm, is a Republican consultant who counts many of the party’s leaders as clients. He agrees that doing better among Latino voters is one of the great challenges for Republicans, but he thinks...
Whit Ayres’s comments on Latino voters and the Republican Party: GOP strategist Whit Ayers responded yesterday to a new Fox News poll illustrating the Democratic Party’s significantly higher popularity among Latino voters, calling the process of winning over the demographic “the great challenge of the Republican Party going forward.” “We will do better, in part because...
Whit Ayres’s comments on the economy: “What matters a lot more than the specific unemployment rate is what voters feel in their communities and in the lives of their families,” GOP pollster Whit Ayres said. “Focus groups demonstrate that while people feel the economy is marginally better, that it is still very weak, and that...
Whit Ayres’s comments on NH’s regulations of survey research, featured in the Union Leader‘s Granite Status column by John DiStaso: PUSHING ON THE PUSH POLL LAW. A top national pollster says stepped-up enforcement by the New Hampshire Attorney General of the state law governing political push-polling is hindering pollsters’ ability to do legitimate market research...
Dan Judy, March 8
In the News SidebarNews ClipsMarch 8, 2012
Dan Judy’s comments on the Republican presidential primary contest on the ABC News website: The truth remains that Romney can afford to lose to Santorum or Gingrich in a bunch of primaries and still collect enough delegates to become the nominee. “He has a much bigger lead than I think he’s getting credit for right...
