by Gordon Hensley | Jun 30, 2015 | Grateful Dead, Music, polling
With the Grateful Dead’s final “Fare Thee Well” tour celebrating the band’s 50th anniversary now heading from Santa Clara, CA to Chicago’s Soldier Field for three final shows next weekend, a new bipartisan national poll conducted by the...
by Gordon Hensley | Jun 12, 2014 | Campaign 2014, GOP Politics, polling
In an interview with The Hill, Eric Cantor’s top campaign aide Ray Allen said Democrats are to blame for the defeat — Democrats who crossed over to meddle in the GOP primary. That’s a far-fetched explanation, and simply not credible as a sole-source...
by Gordon Hensley | May 1, 2014 | Campaign 2014, Journalism Standards, polling
It’s well known that its harder than ever to complete a live phone call survey, and takes an increasing amount of time and money to query a requisite number of cell phone users in the ultimate sample. And with the preponderance of IVR robo-polls and...
by Gordon Hensley | Apr 7, 2014 | Campaign 2014, health care, Health Reform, polling
Among the many ominous developments surrounding the ongoing saga known as “Obamacare” is the fact millions of Americans still have no clue about how to get enrolled, the deadlines involved, and the ramifications for not signing up. A Kaiser Family...
by Gordon Hensley | Nov 11, 2012 | Campaign 2012, CMS, GOP Politics, health care, Health Reform, polling, SNF
Looking past the fact the 2012 election was a GOP debacle, and the allegation — fair or not — that the GOP has a “polling problem,” the election result is best analyzed by a Resurgent Republic analysis authored by by Whit Ayres, Jon McHenry and...
by Gordon Hensley | Oct 25, 2012 | Campaign 2012, polling
With dozens of polls on the presidential and congressional races out weekly in the closing phase of the 2012 campaign, many of which are IVR (robo-polls) as opposed to live caller polls, even taking an average of polls a la the Real Clear Politics average is becoming...