Polling Memo: Paging President Obama
Kayla Sulzer | March 4th, 2013
Fox News: Voters Paging Barack Obama New data from Fox News shows voters paging Barack Obama to come to the table and work out real solutions with House Republicans. Fifty-nine percent say the best way for President Obama to go about solving the nation’s problems is “locking himself in a room with Republicans and working out ...
Polling Memo: It’s a Spending Problem, Not a Tax Problem
Kayla Sulzer | February 28th, 2013
The Bigger Problem: Spending or Taxes? A few weeks ago Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said it was “almost a false argument to say we have a spending problem.”1 No really, she did. The fact of the matter is voters simply do not agree. A new Resurgent Republic study on voters under 40 shows voters undoubtedly ...
Polling Memo: Happy Anniversary to Obama’s Stimulus
Kayla Sulzer | February 20th, 2013
Obama’s Stimulus: In Retrospect This week marks the fourth anniversary of Obama’s $800 billion dollar stimulus package which he purposed to “lay the groundwork for long-term sustained economic growth.”1 Four years later, here’s where we are today: First, sixty percent of voters deem the stimulus a failure, saying it “hasn’t worked” and was not “a ...
Polling Memo: SOTU vs. Americans’ Priorities
Kayla Sulzer | February 15th, 2013
Gallup: SOTU Misses the Mark on Budget Deficit Yesterday, Gallup released data comparing the topics encompassed in President Obama’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday to “Americans’ priorities,” posing the question, “Did Obama address what voters wanted to hear?” Here’s what Gallup concluded: “…Obama’s speech revealed a focus slightly different from the public’s in ...
Polling Memo: Voters Choose GOP
Kayla Sulzer | February 12th, 2013
Quinnipiac: Voters Trust GOP with Cutting Government Spending Heading into tonight’s State of the Union address, with eighty-three percent of voters insisting government has a spending problem, President Obama clearly has some ground to make up when it comes to cutting government spending.1 And, not only do voters see it as a matter of priority, ...
Polling Memo: Remember the Stimulus?
Kayla Sulzer | February 11th, 2013
Fox News: Lessons from Obama’s Stimulus On Monday, November 24, 2008, in a press conference held in Chicago, President-elect Barack Obama unmasked his plan for economic recovery, including the first draft of his economic stimulus package. Here’s what he said: “Not only do I want the stimulus package to deal with the immediate crisis, I ...
Polling Memo: A Sincerity Struggle
Kayla Sulzer | February 8th, 2013
The Economist/YouGov: Obama’s Sincerity On Tuesday, President Obama held a press conference to address his forthcoming sequester, a provision that will make automatic spending cuts come March 1st. According to Politico, the President’s statement touted his usual “fill-in-the-blank,” formulaic approach, replacing anything substantive with a layer of ambiguity. It looked a little something like this: ...
Polling Memo: On Big Government
Kayla Sulzer | February 1st, 2013
Big Government: Cause & Effect Cause: Last week, a troubling 54% of voters said President Obama is more interested in growing government than reducing the national debt.1 Effect: This week, new data from Pew shows an almost equal 53% believe the federal government is a threat to their own personal rights and freedoms. This marks ...
Polling Memo: No Budget, No Pay
Kayla Sulzer | January 28th, 2013
Debt & Spending: No Budget, No Pay Recent data from Pew shows just how serious Americans view the federal government’s debt and spending problem. Over the past four years, “reducing the budget deficit” has seen a 19-pt jump in terms of American’s “policy priorities” for the next year. With heightened concern, it should come as ...
Polling Memo: Lessons on Health Care
Kayla Sulzer | January 25th, 2013
NYT/CBS: Lessons on Health Care The end of February will mark four years since President Obama embarked on the long controversial journey to health care reform, resulting in what we now know as ObamaCare. To refresh our memory, let’s take a quick look back. In March 2010, the law was rammed through Congress when the ...
