David HIll: Few backers for military cuts
As Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel stood at his podium this week, announcing the Obama administration’s intent to shrink our troop size to levels not seen in three-quarters of a century, he kept staring...
View ArticleDr. David Hill: Don’t ignore polls from Russia
Even before Russian troops rolled into the Crimean region of Ukraine last week, Vladimir Putin was upside down in American polls. The Gallup organization polled 1,018 American adults Feb. 6-9, as the...
View ArticleDavid Hill: Economy hijacking the agenda
All across America, political pollsters will be in the field today. Phones will ring. Email boxes will ding with invitations with links to Web surveys. One of the most ubiquitous items in these polls...
View ArticleDavid Hill: Pathology of today’s partisanship
Isn’t it ironic that partisanship is held in such collective disdain, but most of us are more partisan than ever? We could stop it, but we won’t. We don’t really even want to stop. We just pay lip...
View ArticleDavid Hill: Will the political bubble burst?
Activist investor Carl Icahn was on CNBC this week, ranting against the board of directors of eBay, when he broadened his harangue to include the broader economy, saying that markets and the nation are...
View ArticleDavid HIll: Southern paradox without merit
Sunday’s New York Times contained an odd, even offensive, op-ed piece by ostensibly “conservative” columnist Ross Douthat. Perhaps reeling in the wake of East Coast liberals’ criticism of some of his...
View ArticleDavid Hill: Will pot go up in smoke?
In Denver last week for client business, I got to hear about (and smell) the burgeoning marijuana experiment the state has embarked upon.There was a lot of talk about the state’s first official...
View ArticleDavid Hill: Walk the middle on immigration
It’s almost time to push ahead on immigration reform.Last year, Republican leaders indicated they might go forward on immigration policy after the filing deadlines for primary challenges to incumbents...
View ArticleDavid Hill: The return of the wedge issue
In February, the website Democratic Underground.com published an advisory to its aboveground readers. “Minimum wage and marijuana initiatives really bring out voters. So do divisive issues such as...
View ArticleDavid Hill: Polling on racism is complicated
From a pollster’s perspective, racism is a tough nut to crack. Is there any proven and tested battery of questions that will measure racism? For that matter, is racism a single construct, or is it a...
View ArticleDavid Hill: You might be a racist
Last week’s column delved into the challenges that pollsters face when defining and measuring racism. It’s not easy. So we are staying on task.The principal problem is that racism lies so deep in some...
View ArticleDavid Hill: ObamaCare as a punch line
The night before last week’s NFL player draft, “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon launched the fun with a segment titled “Meet the Players — NFL draft edition.” Fallon proceeded to introduce maybe a...
View ArticleDavid Hill: America’s election apathy
America, we have a problem. Most of us are no longer interested in elections. And for some, the disinterest is growing. A poll of young voters, ages 18-29, taken for Harvard’s Institute of Politics...
View ArticleHill: Buyers’ remorse on marijuana?
I was recently moderating several nights of focus groups in Denver when the subject of marijuana suddenly and unexpectedly broke into the conversation.At the beginning of each group I asked respondents...
View ArticleDavid Hill: National security a key issue
Since the beginning of this year, there have been an abundance of issues in the national security category that hold great promise for Republicans, if we only have the courage and skill to leverage...
View ArticleDavid Hill: Gridlock won’t go away soon
Thoughtful political observers would agree that when it comes to partisan and ideological conflict, Republicans and Democrats and conservatives and liberals have been closely matched in successes for...
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