(Week of 4/7/2012) With the departure of Rick Santorum from the field, Mitt Romney has the opportunity to repair his image with Americans and focus on defeating President Barack Obama. One enormous shortcoming for Romney is the perception that he is out of touch and does not care about people. ...
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(Week of 4/7/2012) With the presidential election less than seven months away, President Barack Obama maintains a small lead over his likely GOP opponent, Mitt Romney. He leads Romney in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll by just three points. And even though last Friday’s unemployment rate of 8.2% is now the ...
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Taco Bell Doritos Locos -- the merger of fast food and salty snacks – appears to have boosted consumer perception of both brands, especially with regular patrons of Mexican restaurants in the US. A week after the campaign broke on March 8th, Mexican restaurant patrons’ perception of Taco Bell broke ...
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(Week of 4/7/2012) The President’s order that health care plans funded by organizations associated with religious groups provide contraceptive coverage (since altered) caused some Republicans (including some presidential candidates) to accuse the President and his party of "waging a war against religious freedom." Americans don’t see it that way. ...
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(Week of 4/7/2012) In this Economist/YouGov Poll, Americans see clear party differences in the voting patterns of the last few decades. By 70% to 4%, Americans say blacks tend to vote Democratic, by 39% to 8%, they believe whites vote Republican. Younger voters are seen as Democrats; older voters as ...
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(Week of 4/7/2012) As former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum suspended his campaign Tuesday, he admitted that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney was the only remaining Republican presidential candidate who could gather enough delegates to clinch the nomination. Republican voters may be getting used to this. In the last week, before ...
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As mentioned in a previous Model Politics post, racial attitudes remain a much stronger predictor of attitudes towards Barack Obama than previous presidential candidates. Perhaps even more interesting, a series of findings by social scientists indicate that presidential vote choice isn’t the only thing that has become increasingly polarized by ...
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With over 845 million monthly users worldwide, Facebook has become one of the most important social networking tools today. Among students and employees, however, Facebook’s constant usage often blurs the line between private and public lives. Among the concerns of whether private Facebook profiles should be made public to schools ...
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While there is some evidence in both the Wisconsin primary results and in the Economist/YouGov poll nationwide (Week of 3/31/2012) that Mitt Romney is beginning to heal the wounds in his party, there is equally strong evidence he has not yet begun to convince Americans he can defeat President Obama. ...
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Congress has few friends and admirers. It would be hard to imagine any time in history when the aphorism of Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson rang quite so true: “It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” Only 8% ...
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