Frank Guinta Slips In New Hampshire Polls [Public Policy Polling].
As the reelection campaign progressed, Morris lost track of the difference between polling and policy.
Drawing on new polling by Policy Network, the left of centre think tank of which he is president, Lord Mandelson notes that 56% of respondents want a referendum on British membership.
One official muses wistfully that in 1997 Mr Blair was able to control the "project" through half-a-dozen close confederates: Mr Brown (money), Mr Campbell (media), Mr Mandelson (black arts), Mr Gould (polling), David Miliband (policy) and a few others.
With the first electoral contests just over two months away, Mr. Perry is expanding beyond the tight circle of advisers from Texas, adding veterans of past Republican campaigns who will help direct the candidate's ad spending, polling and policy development.
Earlier, Democracy Corps, a Democratic polling and policy organization headed by the consultants James Carville and Robert Shrum and the pollster Stanley B. Greenberg, published a study with the following conclusion: "When Democrats put out a clear message on national security, it now plays Bush's post-9/11, post-Iraq message to a draw".
Here The Upshot may have an advantage: if it sticks to the narrower areas of polling and policy, there's clearly a defined audience for that – as Silver showed when his section of the Times site brought in a huge audience during the 2012 election.
This seems counter-intuitive as modern politics is actually loaded with numbers from polling to policy analysis.
He was also the originator of the poll tax policy that eventually brought the prime minister down in 1990.
At first it seemed inevitable that Labour's clunking fist would crush the Tories; then it was Mr Cameron's grip on the polls and policy agenda that seemed ineluctable.
