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The Oldest Consultant Reads the Crosstabs

August 25, 2026 3:30 amAugust 25, 2026 3:31 am

Imagine Satan not with horns but with a laptop and a topline. The number in front of him is brutal. Asked to choose between a candidate who wants to preserve America’s constitutional system of government and one who wants to...

The Broken Compass and the Centennial Catastrophe: A Polling Industry that Keeps Promising Outcomes it Cannot Deliver

August 15, 2026 9:00 amAugust 17, 2026 10:41 am

America just threw itself a 250th birthday party, and the polling that came with it reads like a physician’s chart for a patient in trouble. A PBS NewsHour/Marist survey released for the semiquincentennial found that 37 percent of Americans —...

Overwhelming Migrant Ingress Shifts To California

March 5, 2024 8:59 amMarch 5, 2024 9:00 am

The presumptive Democrat and Republican presidential candidates for the 2024 election headed to the southern border last week to focus on immigration. And why shouldn’t they? While in most national elections the economy is often cited as the most important...

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: What I Learned as a Member of Reagan’s Polling and Strategy Team

October 27, 2020 3:30 pmOctober 28, 2020 10:56 am

Freshly minted from the The University of Chicago, Cornell and the Reagan ’80 campaign, I was invited into the secretive club of President Reagan’s polling and strategy team, housed in an old furniture store in Orange County, CA. Sitting at...