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New generation of young voters face old test of turning out
Sen. Bernie Sanders reminded hundreds of students at Arizona State University this week that voter turnout during the 2014 congressional midterm election was abysmal — the worst at any point in modern history.
Paul Bentz: Math major, pollster crunches politics
Paul Bentz, vice president of research and strategy at HighGround, thought he’d be a teacher. But he realized there’s a whole world of people who do nothing else but politics.
Poll shows Flake in precarious spot
On the day of President Donald Trump’s visit to Phoenix, the latest poll delivered grim news to U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, one of the president’s most vocal critics within his party.
Skepticism abounds over governor’s race polling
The dearth of reliable, independent polling in Arizona elections is nothing new. A long-term decline in independent polling by universities and media organizations has left IEs and other biased groups as the main source of publicly available polling for the state’s elections.
Election law referendum may have swung Phoenix council race
A referendum drive that halted a controversial election law may have turned the tide in a Phoenix City Council race where early ballot collection played a major role.
Will Medicaid matter in 2014? Potential candidates for governor offer their thoughts
The intraparty battle raging in Republican circles over Gov. Jan Brewer’s Medicaid expansion plan has not yet extended into the race to succeed her.
A more promising outlook for Medicaid
A poll conducted by HighGround on behalf of St. Luke’s Initiatives concurred with one of the two surveys featured in yesterday’s report that voters support expanding AHCCCS. The poll was conducted Feb. 4-5, has a +/- 3.5 percent margin of error and surveyed 500 voters who had voted in at least the last two elections.
Memo ‘just a draft,’ but Building a Better AZ campaign likely forthcoming
An aggressive campaign aimed at drumming up support for Gov. Jan Brewer’s agenda did not materialize along with her long-awaited budget proposal, but the strategy outlined by Building a Better Arizona 2012 may not be far off.
Transcript of memo outlining budget PR strategy
Following is a transcription of a memo obtained by the Arizona Capitol Times on May 28 that shows Gov. Jan Brewer’s longtime campaign strategist has designed a major campaign aimed at pressuring lawmakers to support a budget Brewer would sign:
Business group to push budget deal favored by Brewer; lawmakers irked
Infighting among Republicans over the budget could get very public and very messy now that word has leaked that Gov. Jan Brewer’s longtime campaign strategist has designed a major campaign aimed at pressuring lawmakers to support a budget Brewer would sign.
