Palin’s a Risky Pick, But Could Yield Big Dividends
The post-Palin coverage by many in the media has been a melange of confusion, cynicism, doubt and derision, even going so far as to characterize Sen. John McCain’s vice presidential choice as one of...
View ArticleMcCain’s Campaign Picks up Big Win During Conventions
Who could blame Sen. Barack Obama’s (Ill.) camp for thinking the Democratic convention would finally end its candidate’s consistent underperformance in the polls? After all, how can you go wrong with a...
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Upcoming Debates May Let McCain Regain Footing
“I do agree that fundamentally America has an economy that is strong.” “America’s great strength is its diversity, its hard work, its good financial statements, its broad capital markets, its enormous...
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Subprime Lending Spree Is at Heart of Latest Debacle
“These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we...
View ArticleDon’t Rush to Any Early Conclusions on Election Night
Four years ago, early exit poll data was leaked midday to the Drudge Report, showing Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) with a huge lead in Pennsylvania — so large, in fact, that Republicans were in despair and...
View ArticleGOP Proves You Can’t Win Without Running a Campaign on Issues
GOP campaign leaders and operatives once again adopted a base strategy despite the fact that neither party can win without attracting key swing voters in the middle. With party affiliation slightly...
View ArticleA Modern Agenda Would Lead the GOP out of the Wilderness
After three weeks of explaining to disheartened Republicans exactly what happened on Nov. 4, I’m beginning to feel more like a grief counselor than a political analyst. In the days leading up to the...
View ArticleGOP, Rothenberg Should See Futility of Relying on Attacks
In his critique of my Dec. 2 column, my Roll Call colleague, Stuart Rothenberg, in essence, defended the Republican political status quo — an attack-based campaign doctrine that has failed both the...
View ArticleObama Better Realize That Honeymoons Do Not Last Forever
There is a widely told story of Nikita Khrushchev’s ousting as the first secretary of the Communist Party more than 40 years ago. As the tale goes, just before leaving office the short-tempered,...
View ArticleDemocrats’ Stimulus Mired in Invalidated Ideas From the 1930s
Almost 40 years ago, as Apollo 13 made its way to the moon, an explosion threatened the mission and the lives of the three astronauts on board. When the control room erupted into chaos, Flight Director...
View ArticleCBS Survey and the Stimulus Package
In looking through the CBS Survey that was released last night there are a couple of very interesting results. First let’s put the sample in context. In the survey 25% were Republicans, 38% were...
View ArticleTonight’s Address Will Be Obama’s Positioning Statement
Washington’s main event last week featured presidential spokesman Robert “The Enforcer” Gibbs taking on CNBC’s Rick “Tea Party” Santelli over the housing bailout package, and it wasn’t pretty. Gibbs...
View ArticleObama Opens With a Very High-Stakes Game of Chess
Ben Franklin wisely called life “a kind of chess.” For the past six weeks, Democrats and Republicans have been engaged in the biggest, riskiest, most costly game of political speed chess in the...
View ArticleAIG Bonuses Raise Questions About Obama’s Leadership
Last Thursday, as the American International Group scandal exploded in Washington, Congressional Democrats and Team Obama, panicked by live cable coverage, provided one of the most surreal moments in...
View ArticleBehind the Headlines: What’s driving the Tea Party Movement?
New polling data examines the demographics and political philosophy behind the Tea Party Movement WASHINGTON DC (April 1, 2010) — Tea Party activists may be ardent supporters of economic conservatism...
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“Put out the fire!”– An analysis of the 2010 midterm elections
(Note: This analysis is based on a combination of the media Exit Poll and a New Models Post-Election survey conducted election night of 1,000 people who said they had voted.) Download the PDF Version...
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Infographic: Which devices do you get more of your news from?
Recently, Newsweek announced that it will no longer be producing a print version of the iconic magazine. No matter what business concerns lead to that decision, one fact that must be acknowledged is...
View ArticleParty ID and Ideology Updated for 2012
We’ve updated our charts of national and state Party ID and Ideology breakdowns to include 2012 numbers, and is presidential-level data. There are two items to note: 1) states with a (P) label means...
View ArticleThe Palin Pick: Soltis Weighs In on The Next Right
The Sarah Palin VP pick has me incredibly excited about the election, and I’ve put my thoughts about the choice into a post over at The Next Right. Take a look at it for the three reasons I think Palin...
View ArticleWith an Eye to the Middle: Soltis on the Independent Vote at Pollster.com
In addition to my work at The Winston Group, I am a contributor to Pollster.com. This week, I posted my thoughts on the independent vote following the release of a number of media polls showing...
View ArticleDifferent Polls, Different Results: Soltis Explains Poll Methodology and...
In today’s American Spectator online, I give my take on why many polls that seem to be checking the same thing – the McCain/Obama ballot test – can end up with very different results. Kristen Soltis:...
View ArticleBeing Republican in an Obama America: Soltis Posts at The Next Right
At The Next Right, I’ve blogged about my (very initial) hopeful reactions to the Obama victory. I’ve often heard that in Chinese, the character for “crisis” is a combination of the characters for...
View ArticleKristen Soltis on RTÉ ‘s Prime Time with Mark Little
The Winston Group’s Director of Policy Research Kristen Soltis appeared on Ireland’s RTÉ for their Prime Time Election Day coverage with Democratic strategist Jim Duffy to discuss expectations for the...
View ArticleSoltis on Young Voters and Independents at Pollster.com
At Pollster.com, I give my take (2000 words of it…fair warning ahead of time!) on the election and why the GOP had a bad night. In short? Independents, young voters, the economy. There are serious...
View ArticleNewt: “Offer A Better Solution”
Echoing the argument expressed by David Winston in his piece in Roll Call from December 15th, former Speaker Newt Gingrich called for the RNC to support the President-elect when he is right and to...
View ArticleSoltis at Pollster.com on Stan Greenberg’s New Book
Over at Pollster.com, Kristen Soltis gives her take on Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg‘s new book Dispatches from the War Room and poses a question: if the “Big Middle” in the electorate exists,...
View ArticleKristen Soltis on Pollster.com: “The Vanishing Young Republicans”
In her Pollster.com piece, “The Vanishing Young Republicans,” Soltis address the issue of more and more young voters identifying as Democrat, including when the trend really started and how this may...
View ArticleSoltis @ Huffington Post: How The GOP Can Win Back Young Voters
Today, I posted at The Huffington Post about how the Republican Party can win back young voters. This post, coming from my thesis research on the topic, follows a series of posts on Pollster.com about...
View ArticleWWDC: Chris is in the building!
Hello everyone, this is Kristen here, Chris’ sidekick for his WWDC adventure. We went to the Moscone Center this morning at 5:00 am local time and were #169 in line; by 7:20, the line had wrapped...
View ArticleWhere Are The Jobs?
Take a look at this POLITICO article about the pressure falling on Democrats as a result of continuing high unemployment rates. David Winston provides some insight into how the unemployment rates are...
View ArticleThe Vanishing Young Republicans: Thesis by WG’s Kristen Soltis
After many months of writing and researching, WG Director of Policy Research Kristen Soltis’ master’s thesis on young voters is now available. The thesis received “Best Thesis in the Area of...
View ArticleDonald Trump as Debate Moderator Makes the GOP Look Like a Joke
This week, I was asked to participate in US News & World Report’s “Debate Club,” where myself and four others, including Grover Norquist, weighed in on the question: Should the GOP presidential...
View ArticleObama Has Misdiagnosed America’s Income Inequality Problem: An Op-Ed for U.S....
The answer isn’t more government, but restoration of a free market In his acclaimed recent speech in Osawatomie, Kan., President Barack Obama articulated what has become the dominant liberal...
View ArticleUS News: Let Ron Paul Speak at the Republican National Convention
In today’s “Debate Club” at US News and World Report, I had a chance to argue that the GOP has many reasons — both practical and ethical — to give Ron Paul a speaking role at next week’s convention....
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Party ID and Ideology Breakdowns
Over the course of the next several weeks, there will be many national and state surveys released. In order to help people make sense of this data, we have compiled party identification and ideology...
View ArticleUS News: Paul Ryan Won by Staying Cool and Composed
This morning a short opinion piece I wrote in answer to the question of who won last night’s vice presidential debate appeared in U.S. News and World Report. But there is one very real way in which the...
View ArticleUS News: Raising Taxes Could Curtail Government Spending
The Winston Group is excited to announce that Kristen, Noah and myself will be contributing a weekly politics post to the US News and World Report Thomas Jefferson Street blog. In the first...
View ArticleU.S. News: Obama’s Losing Hand
Over on U.S. News and World Report‘s Thomas Jefferson Street politics blog, I have a post today urging Republicans to stand strong on the sequester: There is simply no reason for the GOP to accept...
View ArticleUS News: What’s Wrong With the GOP? Everything
Winston Group vice president Kristen Soltis Anderson has a post at US News and World Report’s politics blog in which she lays out the myriad problems facing the Republican Party as it tries to make...
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“What is causing more problems in the economy?”
Here’s a look at of one of the questions in our latest survey: To see this and the other results from the November questionnaire, access the PDF of toplines here: November 2013 Survey.
View ArticleThe Economist: The Republican Party: Ticking off the Tea Party
The Economist released a story over the weekend on the divide between two wings of the Republican Party, between conservative organizations and House Republicans led by Speaker John Boehner. The WG’s...
View ArticlePolitico: For Obamacare, it’s finally showtime
Politico’s David Nather reports on projected outcomes of the beginning of the ACA’s official implementation, which begins today. The WG’s David Winston says that even while there is support for the...
View ArticleNational Teacher Attitudes on the Adoption of Common Core State Standards
While teachers’ outlook on Common Core continues to be positive, there are some challenges emerging on the horizon that need to be addressed. By a 2:1 margin (62% approve-31% disapprove) teachers...
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WG Discussion Points: The Future of Health Care
As part of the immediate discussions about how to deal with problems in the health care system, the future of health care and the opportunities that exist should be a key part of those discussions.
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Discussion Points: Issues Driving the Electorate
In the most recent survey for Winning the Issues (July 5-6, 1000 registered voters), we updated the list of issues and news stories in how they are driving voting decisions for next year’s mid-term...
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Hillary, Capitalism, and the Democratic Party
In a May 2nd interview, Hillary Clinton was asked if describing herself as a capitalist hurt her presidential aspirations. Her response was “probably…it’s hard to know. But I mean if you’re in the...
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The Future of Ads
On Wednesday, Mary Meeker, a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, released her highly acclaimed annual report on Internet trends and technology. One of the findings of this...
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2018 Post Election Analysis: “Focus on OUR Concerns”
The 2018 midterm elections, for Republicans, is a story of missed opportunity. Holding the House was a tall order with history against the GOP as the party in power and the large number of Republican...
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Expectations for the New Democratic House
The most recent survey for Winning the Issues (November 30-December 2, 1000 registered voters) looked at perceptions and expectations of the new Congress. The survey showed that the electorate...
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