Issenberg does not give sufficient attention to why candidates lose. He appears to downplay the diagnosis of the late Republican pollster Robert Teeter and his colleague Fred Steeper that George McGovern lost in 1972 because he struck voters as being unable to “handle” the issues, rather than ...
“Then, on October 16″: Media Matters, “Dem strategist Menendez calls Hannity out on Jennings’ smears, points out student was 16,” MediaMatters.org, October 16, 2009. Page 208 “Some examples”: This list is only partial, and is largely compiled from the Media Matters report, “Fox...
People who are interested in cultural dramas and issues related to group identity are not just Democratic strategists in campaign war-rooms, but, as I mentioned earlier, academics, and “true believer” bleeding-heart progressive activists. It seems to me that identity politics—at least at ...
Paradoxically, President Biden’s deep underwater approval rating was not a major drag on the Democratic vote: exit polls showed the President was mostly an afterthought, not even a factor for nearly half (47%) of the voters. Apparently, the strategists who, pre-election, kept Biden largely ...
Kristen Soltis Anderson at the Winston Grouphas been describedas “the Republican Party’s leading millennial pollster.” Herreport, issued under the aegis of the College Republican National Committee (CRNC) earlier this year, described the problems Republicans face with young people and is worth a...