Washington Examiner: Obama’s poll numbers point to his defeat in 2012
Washington Examiner’s Byron York takes a look at the falling numbers behind Obama’s approval ratings, predicting that at the rate they are now, he won’t be reelected in 2012. York turned to The Winston Group’s David Winston for some explanation behind why the president has fallen behind in the polls:
“He’s got to realize the reason he lost independents,” says Winston of the president. “He thinks it was about communications. It wasn’t. It was about substance and policy.”
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Milwaukee WI Journal Sentinel: The most conservative electorate in decades?
Has the number of conservatives in Wisconsin surpassed the number of moderates? That would be the case, according to two different, recent polls conducted statewide. The Journal Sentinel’s Craig Gilbert breaks it down, and turns to David Winston for some explanation:
“What you’re pointing toward is a critical element in understanding where this election is going,” says David Winston, a well-known GOP pollster in Washington, D.C. “Has the electorate moved that much in terms of its ideology? Given what we’ve seen in previous years, based on election-year exit poll surveys, the numbers we’re seeing now are dramatically different. The question is, are they correct?”
The article also includes insight pulled from The WG’s Kristen Soltis, from her recent Huffington Post piece.
To read the entire article on Wisconsin’s electorate, turn to jsonline.com