by John Wynne | Mar 20, 2014 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, Poll Analysis, Polling
SurveyUSA released their first poll of the North Carolina Senate race, conducted on behalf of WRAL. Unfortunately, they didn’t poll the general election, but they did poll the primary and the results are very interesting. Let’s take a look: Republican...
by John Wynne | Mar 20, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, Poll Analysis, Polling, US House, US Senate
It’s been quite a week for polls in NC politics. The first one is from American Insights, which purportedly wants to become the conservative alternative to PPP. They didn’t poll the Senate race, but they show President Obama with a 43/49 approval here,...
by John Wynne | Mar 12, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, Poll Analysis, US Senate
Poll link: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2014/PPP_Release_NC_311.pdf Let’s be frank: PPP is a Democratic-leaning pollster, and they don’t like Thom Tillis. So take their results with a grain of salt. Personally, I’d like to see another...
by John Wynne | Feb 13, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, Poll Analysis, Polling, US Senate
PPP’s latest poll finds that not much has changed: Hagan is still tied or trailing her Republican challengers. Beyond that, it finds that Thom Tillis still hasn’t put much distance between himself and the rest of the Republican field. Let’s take a...
by John Wynne | Jan 27, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, Poll Analysis, Polling, US Senate
Rasmussen Reports is out today with its first look at the North Carolina Senate race: Tillis 47% Hagan 40% Brannon 43% Hagan 39% These were the only candidates tested. If the poll is accurate, how can we reconcile this with PPP showing Hagan’s Republican...
by John Wynne | Jan 14, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, Poll Analysis, US Senate
It’s poll time again in the NC Senate race. Just yesterday, a new contender, Ted Alexander, emerged on the scene. Since PPP wasn’t in the field yet, these results are arguably obsolete already, but there is a lot of potentially useful information that can...