An email from We Ask America: Illinois: Everything old is new again Governor Pat Quinn has made a career out of proving those who dismiss his chances in political races wrong. Earlier this year, most pundits outside of Illinois had … Continue reading
Category Archives: We Ask America
The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that U.S. Senator Dick Durbin is leading State Senator Jim Oberweis by a margin of 47.8% to 40.5%. Libertarian Party candidate Sharon Hansen got about 4%. 7.6% were undecided. The margin of error is 3%. … Continue reading
Since so many folks from McHenry County have crossed the Wisconsin border to participate in election on behalf of and in opposition to Governor Scott Walker, I thought the following We Ask American poll results might be of interest. Treading … Continue reading
A press release from the polling firm We Ask America: Struggling IL-Quinn We Ask America Polls™ kicks off our 2013 public poll offering with a series of surveys focusing on governors who will be up for re-election next year. It’s … Continue reading
A press release from the polling firm We Ask America: Favorite Son There’s been a surprising amount of conjecture coming our way lately about the possibility of Mitt Romney inching closer to Barack Obama in Illinois. We’ve not paid much … Continue reading
We Ask America was the only published pollster when Joe Walsh upset Melissa Bean in 2010. Its findings showed Walsh has a chance. Now it comes up with recent findings that Walsh is trailing Tammy Duckworth. Here is the text: … Continue reading
This information arrived from the polling firm We Ask American today. The Joe Walsh data has been published before, but the rest is new. Illinois Orphans Posted: 12 Oct 2012 03:46 AM PDT Illinois is one of those areas considered … Continue reading
A press release from Champion News: Flash Poll: Joe Walsh Takes the Lead Against Tammy Duckworth CARPENTERSVILLE, IL – With less than four weeks until Election Day, Joe Walsh is in the lead over Tammy Duckworth in the race for … Continue reading
To the best of my knowledge, McHenry County has only had one resident Congressman–Joe Walsh. Sure he moved to the county after he decided what district in which to run, but no other Federal representative has done that. As some … Continue reading
Crain’s Chicago Business political reporter Greg Hinz is consistentwith the report I had that the race between Democrat Tammy Duckworth and Republican incumbent Joe Walsh is close. Hinz cites two polls. The first by the Tarrance Group, a firm that … Continue reading
There must be a dam at the Illinois-Wisconsin border. The water from Wisconsin’s boiling tea kettle didn’t spill over the state border last Saturday when the McHenry County Republican Party decided no candidate against Jack Franks was better than Tea … Continue reading
A press release from We Ask America: Turnout You have to hand it to Wisconsin’s electorate: they are passionate about their politics. When we first polled the Dairy State’s voters about Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s plummeting approval ratings, many right-leaning … Continue reading
Here’s the email about yesterday’s polling from We Ask America: Romney/Santorum As America was gearing up to watch the Oscars, We Ask America was in the field in Michigan and Arizona asking likely Republican voters for the final time before … Continue reading
Here’s the press release from We Ask America: Michigan: Dead Heat The State of Michigan has displayed its fair share of mojo lately. From Clint Eastwood’s breathy Super Bowl ad proclaiming the U.S. auto industry as the economic beacon of … Continue reading
He came in second for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in both 2002 and 2004. His second place finish in 2004 to Jack Ryan was not rewarded with a spot on the ballot when Ryan dropped out. Instead, the … Continue reading
Illinois Democrats put 19-year State Senator Dave Syverson of Rockford and newly-appointed Christine Johnson of DeKalb County into the same district. Syverson has appeared on Rockford television and radio for almost two decades. He has a fifty-point margin in his … Continue reading
In that Lake County State Senate District where the incumbent seemed to try to throw around her weight during a domestic dispute, there’s a Republican primary contest between former WKRS Radio talk show host and County Board member Larry Leafblad … Continue reading
A December 30th press release from We Ask America: Consensus: Romney Our last presidential tracking poll in Iowa mirrors what most others are showing in their polling: Mitt Romney may be finally breaking through the clutter. And while Romney’s detractors … Continue reading
That’s pretty much what the We Ask America polling folks ask as they release results from last night’s phone calls to Iowa residents. Here’s the press release: Down the Newt Chute Posted: 21 Dec 2011 06:59 AM PST It’s becoming … Continue reading
The only firm that bothered to survey the 8th Congressional District race between Melissa Bean, Joe Walsh and Bill Scheurer (and predicted that Walsh could win) has polled Iowa again. We Ask America’s poll results and press release follow: Tracking … Continue reading