All posts tagged "Pollster"

Pollsters are finding that swing voters are increasingly worried about a trending issue that's being overlooked.

Sarah Longwell, a Republican pollster and the publisher of The Bulwark, revealed in a podcast that swing voters are sharing a long list of concerns about AI data centers with pollsters.

The issue is "flying under the radar as a big picture issue for folks in D.C., but I hear it coming up all the time in focus groups," Longwell said. "I know some people are paying attention to this, but I mean, the voters talk about it all the time."...

A new poll gauging how the country feels about the job President Donald Trump has been doing since taking office is being called "stunning" by the head of the conservative-leaning group Rasmussen Reports.

That's because, despite the disruption of Trump's tariffs, a wildly fluctuating stock market, talk of impending recession, and the erosion of free speech rights, "the number of people who think the country is moving in the right direction is increasing," Newsweek reported.

Rasmussen's numbers showed that "Trump's approval rating is at +7" and "50 percent of Americans think the nation is on the right track."...

Donald Trump just essentially wrapped up the GOP primary competition, but that didn't always seem like a possibility. A Republican pollster explains how it happened.

Sarah Longwell, the executive director of the Republican Accountability Project and publisher of The Bulwark, said it wasn't the will of the voters that toppled a mainstream GOP that was resistant to Trumpism. In fact, it was the Republican Party's embrace of Trump that made it possible.

"Just one week after the midterms, he entered the 2024 race, announcing his candidacy to a room of bored-looking hangers-on. Even his children weren’t there. Security had to pen people in to keep them from leaving during his meandering speech," Longwell wrote in a piece published in the Atlantic. "Today, thanks to Trump’s dominant performance in South Carolina, the Republican primary is all but over. Trump’s margin was so comfortable that the Associated Press called the race as soon as polls closed. How did we get here? How did Trump go from historically weak to unassailable?"...