Pity the poor members of the lap dog media who must have been up most of the night trying desperately to find something good to say about Obama based on the latest national polls released this morning. It wasn’t an easy task and, try as... read more »
October 1, 2012 8:19 pm / no comments
Two weeks ago I wrote Are Conservatives Abandoning Romney based on analyses, of multiple swing state polls, looking specifically at the ideological support that Obama and Romney were receiving.
At that time the numbers demonstrated lower than... read more »
September 30, 2012 3:00 pm / 4 comments
The phone rings …
Good morning, lap dog media and polling. How may I help you?
Why good morning Mr. President and what can we do for you today?
Yes sir, we can certainly come up with some polling to support our ongoing meme that the race... read more »
September 28, 2012 7:30 pm / 2 comments
It’s clear the mainstream media have their heads up their asses!
We’ve heard it all in the last couple of weeks and we’ve heard it from a very broad spectrum of pundits and talking heads. It’s to be expected at this point in the... read more »
September 23, 2012 4:00 pm / 2 comments
I have to admit my first reaction to the video taken at a private Romney fund-raiser was not good and I feared it could spell trouble for the campaign, but if it can be used to launch a narrative about entitlement versus opportunity it could... read more »
September 19, 2012 4:12 pm / no comments
In an article Monday, Are Conservatives Abandoning Romney, I cited some data gleaned from multiple polls conducted within the last week that demonstrated waning support for Governor Romney from conservatives and evangelicals.
While the article... read more »
September 18, 2012 12:16 pm / 4 comments
There have been 16 public polls conducted in swing states within the last week and there is an alarming statistic, consistent in all the polls regardless of the pollster party bias, that should have the Romney camp more than a little worried... read more »
September 16, 2012 4:13 pm / 18 comments
The Romney campaign just released a new video that accurately assails President Obama’s failure in dealing with China in the context of lost American jobs.
While the recent loss of American lives in Libya and the turmoil in Egypt and Yemen... read more »
September 13, 2012 12:08 pm / no comments
Yes to all three. The bottom line is polling numbers can be any or all of these things since it depends on what you want to know, who conducted the poll and how the poll was constructed. It’s also very important to remember polls are snapshots... read more »
September 10, 2012 2:20 pm / 3 comments
By now just about everybody knows the August unemployment rate dropped to 8.1% while only 96,000 new jobs were created, and may even know how the rate can drop on such anemic job growth. But there’s a less convoluted set of real numbers that... read more »
September 7, 2012 2:49 pm / no comments
Much has been discussed and theorized about the bump candidates tend to receive after their respective conventions but those little spikes are normally short-lived and relatively unimportant.
What matters more is a longer term look at the momentum... read more »
September 4, 2012 3:16 pm / no comments
As the Democratic National Convention kicks off today much of recent conversation has surrounded the question “are we better off today than we were four years ago”.
In classic Team Obama fashion, David Axelrod and David Plouffe dodged the... read more »
September 3, 2012 3:37 pm / 3 comments