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Do Voters Care About the Debt?
Congressional Republicans often think that voters don’t care about the national debt, but our research shows that voters care more than lawmakers may realize. This research consisted of a series of listening sessions with voters and a national survey (January 7-10) of 1200 registered voters. In a series of beliefs,

NAEP Was A Wakeup Call For Accountability. What’s Next?
As we covered in our January 29th post, the 2024 NAEP data have just been released, showing that students struggled with reading, even more so than math. One of the main takeaways from the 2024 data is that the drops cannot all be attributed to the lingering effects of Covid.

House Budget Committee: The Republican Budget Opportunity (via Gingrich360)
The Winston Group’s recent survey numbers, in Newt Gingrich’s recent column, cited today by the US House Committee on the Budget: Read the full piece here.

Roll Call: The nation’s report card hits crisis level
The Winston Group’s David Winston writes about the latest NAEP scores in today’s Roll Call: The NAEP results are beyond sobering. The tests found that 40 percent of the country’s fourth graders and a third of eighth graders were “below basic” in reading, incapable of understanding even the central idea

Newt Gingrich: The Republican Budget Opportunity
Newt Gingrich cites our new survey numbers in his commentary today: The Winston Group made a series of important findings after running focus groups and a survey of 1,200 registered voters in January: “1.) Inflation was the construct by which people viewed the economy and taxes. As a result, the most important

The 2025 Tax Wars Begin: New Research on Taxes and Debt
The new year kicks off the tax wars on Capitol Hill, with the TCJA individual tax provisions set to expire at the end of 2025. We have new research on taxes and the debt (a series of focus groups and a national survey of 1200 registered voters conducted January 7-10).