by Gordon Hensley | Nov 6, 2013 | Campaign 2012, GOP Politics
The news, obviously, is that Terry McAuliffe won the Virginia Governor’s race — but it was a win where he was holding on at the end; holding on as the Cuccinelli forces did the only thing they could after getting badly outgunned on TV: use President...
by Gordon Hensley | Nov 11, 2012 | Campaign 2012, CMS, GOP Politics, health care, Health Reform, polling, SNF
Looking past the fact the 2012 election was a GOP debacle, and the allegation — fair or not — that the GOP has a “polling problem,” the election result is best analyzed by a Resurgent Republic analysis authored by by Whit Ayres, Jon McHenry and...
by Gordon Hensley | Oct 31, 2012 | Campaign 2012, health care, Medicare Cuts
Despite DCSpectator’s prior skepticism that the GOP in general and the Romney campaign in particular could achieve a level of parity with the Democrats on the issue of protecting Medicare, Kaiser data suggests the Romney campaign has largely succeeded. Even...
by Gordon Hensley | Oct 25, 2012 | Campaign 2012, polling
With dozens of polls on the presidential and congressional races out weekly in the closing phase of the 2012 campaign, many of which are IVR (robo-polls) as opposed to live caller polls, even taking an average of polls a la the Real Clear Politics average is becoming...
by Gordon Hensley | Sep 28, 2012 | Campaign 2012, GOP Politics, health care, Medicare Cuts
When Mitt Romney selected Paul Ryan as his Veep nominee, and initially seized the offensive on Medicare by charging “Obamacare” was funded by actually siphoning-off Medicare dollars, too many GOP consultants rejoiced prematurely. One NRCC operative was...
by Gordon Hensley | Sep 14, 2012 | Campaign 2012, GOP Politics, health care, Health Reform, SNF
If one listened only to the Washington Beltway echo chamber this week, the presidential campaign is over. Not only did Romney ‘mishandle’ the sacking of the U.S. embassy in Libya, but he’s also “lost Ohio” and thus the election because of...
