Neil Newhouse is a co-founder of Public Opinion Strategies, a political survey and polling firm, and was the lead pollster for the unsuccessful presidential campaigns of both John McCain and Mitt Romney against Barack Obama. (wikipedia)
There is nothing overnight that the White House can do. It's not like a football game where you make that Hail Mary pass. It's a long battle back.
This is an incredibly difficult spot to fill. There aren't that many people that can do this kind of job.
The initial impressions, obviously, of how the government handled Katrina have not been positive, but I think the book is still out on how this thing is going to be perceived.
These guys are ready to vote but, truthfully, I don't know how much more pressure they can stand up to.
This is not an informed or a pushed ballot test.
In the current political environment when the economy is growing so strong, there's not a great deal of (a) sense out there that Americans are really clamoring for tax cuts.
The data shows pretty clearly that how voters watch video programming is dramatically changing and reinforces the need for political campaigns to better match their communications outreach efforts to the voters’ changing media habits.
I thought that everybody would be blaming FEMA, the federal government. But there is a significant amount of blame to place on state and local government. That is probably going to increase as time goes on.