By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  February 22nd at 10:20 PM  | 

PART 4 OF 4 about poll in Gardner, Kansas.  You can read part 1 here, part 2 here, and part 3 here. In August 2011, I polled Kansas’ second-largest city of Overland Park, a suburb of Kansas City, MO.  We learned, in part: 67% of voters wanted to balance the city budget through cuts in spending, and only 23% wanted higher taxes. Asked a different | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  November 30th at 01:42 AM  | 

In the 2002 movie “Signs,” Colleen Hess gave her youngest son Merrill a cryptic, deathbed command to “swing away.”  Only years later, with his own life at risk, did Merrill understand what this meant.  With confidence, Merrill “swung away.”  The challenge was unclear, but it was was large and right in front of him, and Merrill could not and did not miss.  Merrill “swung away” with | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  November 5th at 01:00 AM  | 

As people smarter than me have said, such as RedState’s Dan McLaughlin and The Weekly Standard’s Jay Cost, there is no precedent for BOTH the national polls being correct, and Barack Obama winning re-election.  If Obama wins, either national polls have been wrong about Independent voters, or Obama sets a new precedent. Here are national exit polls for 2000, 2004, and 2008. In 2000: George W. Bush won | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  September 16th at 02:06 AM  | 

Poll: Three out of four likely voters say reporters try to help candidates.  And by a 59-18% margin, voters say Barack Obama received better coverage than Mitt Romney. Click here or below to listen to the audio of Paul Ibbetson’s interview of Benjamin Hodge.   Broadcast date August 31, 2012. Click here to read the Rasmussen poll. Some of the questions: When covering a political | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  January 22nd at 07:02 PM  | 

On January 3, Wichita CBS affiliate KWCH commissioned a SurveyUSA poll among Kansas voters about the 2012 election.  This was released on the same day as the Iowa caucus, and was before the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries. Two questions were asked to registered voters in Kansas (emphasis added): “Which Republican has the best chance to beat Barack Obama in the general election in November? Mitt Romney? Newt | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  November 26th at 02:27 AM  | 

Poll from SurveyUSA, conducted Nov. 18-21, 2011. “Sure, it’s early, and yes, a lot will change, but in an preview of the 2012 Presidential election, cell phone voters (those without a home telephone, typically undercounted in opinion polls), vote sufficiently Democrat to keep Mitt Romney to just a single-digit lead over Barack Obama, and, for the moment, cause Obama to defeat Newt Gingrich. Kansas’ 6 electoral | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  August 22nd at 06:15 AM  | 

To read more details from our extensive poll of likely 2012 voters in Overland Park, KS, go to StateandLocalEducation.org.  Below is a portion. ——————————– Part 3 of results Telephone survey among likely 2012 voters in Overland Park, KS.  Conducted Tuesday, August 9, and Wednesday, August 10, by the State and Local Educational Foundation of Kansas.  Margin of error +/- 5.4%.  Party breakdown:  51% Republican, 29% Unaffiliated, 20% and | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  November 12th at 11:43 AM  | 

Interesting articles: City Journal: Steven Malanga, “The Next Wave of Urban Reform.” The American Spectator: James Antle on Indiana’s Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels, “Mitch the Knife.” George Will: Barack Obama has resuscitated the political right. Chris Cillizza: Former Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis is running against RNC Chairman Michael Steele. HT Erick Erickson. Larry Sabato at Rasmussen Reports: One-Term Barack.