Purple Prose. A blog featuring original, insightful and occasionally long-winded perspectives on today's constantly changing world. Self-promotional? Why, of course. But ordinary? Perish the thought.
Our latest poll shows Romney trailing Obama by four points, and Santorum trails him by just 2 — and actually leads among independent voters. Romney is upside down on favorabilities by a whopping 30 points. At the same time, Obama has much work to do. Even with voters’ mood in swing states improving slightly, Obama remains well below 50% and voters have concerns about his job performance — including on the recent policy debate about contraception. Read More »
Our latest poll shows that a near-majority of Purple State voters believe that Gingrich’s personal life is relevant to their decision, and women appear to be punishing him for it. Romney’s image has taken a beating over the course of the campaign. Yet despite all this, Obama is still worse off than other successful incumbents. We also look at the question of tax fairness for the wealthy, and the importance of debating the President. Read More »
As the nation’s politicos focus on New Hampshire and the other upcoming Republican primaries, we look at the state of the general election race in our new Purple Election Perspective. Our report tracks the economic and political data points that indicate President Obama’s likelihood of re-election, including direct comparisons to other recent incumbents.
In our latest edition, President Obama remains in perilous position compared to other incumbents. At the same time, trends across nearly all measures are in his favor. Take a look at the Purple Election Perspective, and judge for yourself!
Over the past month, President Obama has picked up some steam in the 12 Purple states, but still falls short of his re-election goals. Gingrich may have passed his peak: he now fares worse against President Obama than he did in November, and his unfavorable ratings are increasing. Read More »
Our latest PurplePoll finds that President Obama remains in perilous position, but facing a Republican field that is not liked by the Purple electorate.
We also provide new insight into the Health Care Law at the Supreme Court, and Purple America’s beliefs about the Supercommittee. Read More »
Today Purple Strategies released the results of their first PurplePoll of the 2012 election cycle revealing challenges for President Obama, but problems for Mitt Romney and Rick Perry as well. Read More »
September means it’s the end of summer, the kids go back to school, and Congress returns from its August recess. This fall, there is a new committee that will captivate all of Washington D.C. — the new power-packed, budget-cutting Super Committee. You have questions about the who, what, where, when and why about this committee — and Purple Strategies has answers. Get a jump on the competition and click below to begin your Super Committee 101!
Today we introduce the Purple Election Perspective. This monthly snapshot will provide a bipartisan look at key indicators for 2012.
In our first edition, we focus on critical economic and opinion data points that will set the national political terrain for the upcoming cycle. We also add essential context – comparison data for other incumbents over the last eight cycles. Read More »
Right after today’s 5.9 magnitude earthquake we started tracking aftershocks. I’m not talking about seismic activity, I’m talking online conversation. As of 2:48 pm, there were 743,000 online posts mentioning “earthquake” according to our analysis of Radian6 data. Not surprisingly, 96.7% of the public conversation took place on Twitter. Read More »
There has been much polling on the debt ceiling, with results for Democrats and Republicans to claim as evidence for their side.
Republicans can point to the Gallup poll showing that just 22% of Americans want their member of Congress to raise the debt ceiling at all. Democrats can respond by saying that a 46% plurality of Americans would blame Republicans if the government defaults (35% blame Obama).
Here’s the problem: this polling may not reflect anything meaningful in public opinion.
