The USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences/Los Angeles Times Poll project is a series of statewide public opinion polls in California, designed to survey voter attitudes on a wide range of political, policy, social and cultural issues.
Conducted at regular intervals throughout the year, the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Poll is one of the largest polls of registered voters in the state and has been widely cited, helping to inform the public and to encourage discourse on key political and policy issues.
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New York Times Campaign Stops: Mitt Romney, the Jacksonville Jaguar
I wrote yesterday that last night was the most important night of Mitt Romney’s political life. Another underwhelming debate performance like the ones he delivered in South Carolina would open the door for a Newt Gingrich victory in the Florida primary. Losing Florida could begin the type of downward spiral for Romney that would lead to even less pleasant consequences.
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New York Times Campaign Stops: Suddenly, Debate No. 19 Means Everything
It’s the most important night of Mitt Romney’s political life. Us pundit types tend to get a little bit overwrought when framing presidential campaigns as a series of breathless and seminal do-or-die moments. But Romney’s current predicament and challenge is such that it’s not difficult to see how the outcome of the Republican debate in Jacksonville this evening could have a defining impact on the outcome of next week’s Florida primary and fundamentally shape the road forward for Romney and his opponents.
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New York Times Campaign Stops: Positively Newt
Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have now established themselves as the id and the ego of the Republican Party. Romney represents the ultra-organized, overly measured and methodical aspect of the Republican establishment, while Gingrich is hyper-instinctual and visceral, the untrammeled raw impulses of the conservative movement's emotional core incarnated. (For those of you keeping track at home, that makes Rick Santorum the party's demanding and moralizing super-ego and Ron Paul, perhaps, its super-id.)
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USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Poll Briefing Event
Los Angeles elected officials and their staffs joined the Unruh Institute of Politics Director Dan Schnur for a private briefing and review of 2011 USC Dornsife/LA Times poll results. The USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences/Los Angeles Times Poll project is a series of statewide public opinion polls in California, designed to survey voter attitudes on a wide range of political, policy, social and cultural issues. Conducted at regular intervals throughout the year, the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Poll is one of the largest polls of registered voters in the state and has been widely cited, helping to inform the public and to encourage discourse on key political and policy issues.
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