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Resurgent Republic: a big deal

Submitted by Matt Dabrowski on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 14:25
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Ed Gillespie and Whit Ayres have announced the formation of a group called Resurgent Republic. This group is a veritable dream team of pollsters, strategists and policy researchers.

And what will it do? From their Web site:

Resurgent Republic will conduct survey research and focus groups to gauge public opinion about policy proposals under consideration by the White House and Congress, and make survey and focus group results publicly available. In addition to disseminating public opinion data and analyses, Resurgent Republic will sponsor panel discussions on issues featuring members of its various Advisory Boards.

I've long been an advocate for a Republican organization along the lines of Stanley Greenberg and James Carville's superb Democracy Corps. In an environment like today's, the value of high-level guidance from the best strategists in our party, available to all of us, can't be overstated. This is a big deal and you're going to love what they come up what. It's going to help us win arguments and help us win elections.

Here's a few names:

  • Pollsters: Glen Bolger, Linda DiVall, Ed Goeas, John McLaughlin, Jan Van Lohuizen
  • Advisors: Haley Barbour, George Allen, Bill Paxon, Vin Weber, Mary Matalin
  • Academics: Gary Andres, David Brady, James Ceasar, William Connelly, James Gimpel, John Petrocik, John Pitney, Daron Shaw

That's the gold standard, folks.

Here's the CNN story. Hat tip to Gary Andres for the link.

A former Republican National Committee chairman and a prominent GOP pollster are leading a new organization that will promote conservative principles and try to counter the Democratic controlled White House and Congress on economic and national security matters.

The organization emphasized that it would help "promote market-oriented policies, lower taxes and economic growth, and strong national security policies." On Wednesday, Resurgent Republic said it will release a report on President Obama's budget.

Gary posts here regularly, and I look forward to his updates.

UPDATE: Mike Allen has a story at Politico.

Resurgent Republic plans to offer itself as a resource for policymakers and congressional leaders and will conduct focus groups and polling, and plans to hold at least one forum this year. Think of it as a Republican version of Democracy Corps.

 

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what exactly has Democracy Corps done?

Submitted by RisingTide on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 14:34.

wishin' ya luck, but I'd like to know what your actual goals are and what methodology you're going to use...

What Democracy Corps has done

Submitted by Matt Dabrowski on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 14:38.

What Democracy Corps has done is produce a wealth of real public opinion data that allows their side of the fence to message successfully. Even for righties, I think their work is must-read, because it's the very best of what the other side is doing. It's voluminous.

We've needed something like this on our side of the fence for a long time.

What do u think Heritage Foundation does?

Submitted by skayne on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 17:29.

What in that statement is anything different than what's voiced by GOP leaders? Conservatives have had messaging for a long time. You think all those think tanks that originated in late 70's didn't contribute massively to the rise of conservatism? Talk radio entered the fray in the late 80's with Rush Limbaugh. Fox News became a mouthpiece in '96. You think you haven't had messaging?

That's policy, not

Submitted by Matt Dabrowski on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 17:37.

That's policy, not messaging.

Messaging is when you run policy through research to see (1) if the electorate will support it and (2) what arguments are best to promote the policy.

They ARE messaging

Submitted by skayne on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 17:53.

Once again, they provide policies and craft them into a message. Talk radio amplifies that message. So does Fox News.

Democrats lacked the messaging, and really, they still do. They're in power because far-right conservatives were a complete disaster in government. Not because they've convinced enough likely voters that their way is correct.

far-right conservatives in charge of government?

Submitted by chemjeff on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 18:04.

We had far-right conservatives in charge of government?  Really?  When was this?

someone somewhere elected a neoconservative coward

Submitted by RisingTide on Wed, 04/29/2009 - 09:54.

to the Executive Branch. (or is it Legislative? Cheney was waffling on that, last I heard).

The Kleptocracy did not reflect well on Conservatism, Republicanism, or on the General American Public. Everyone had egg on their faces.

I hold fond hopes that Conservatism will at the very minimum reject the Kleptocracy.

U wouldn't understand

Submitted by skayne on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 18:16.

If you don't know I'm won't be able to convince you. If you don't realize the drastic right turn the country took in the last 8 years, I don't know what to tell you. Just don't expect the same ideas to work in the future. The theory of staunch conservatism was put into practice, and all 3 branches of government were under conservative rule. All we got was an epic FAIL.

"staunch conservatism"

Submitted by chemjeff on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 19:38.

Here's a clue: Bush was nowhere near a "far-right conservative".  He was a mushy moderate on most issues.  I'll know when we've gotten to the point of "staunch conservatism" when I see Republicans actually close a federal agency.  But I won't hold my breath.

perfect example of far right

Submitted by skayne on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 21:06.

Like I said, you don't understand that is a far-right position. It also shows how you don't know that they've been defunding so many goverment agencies while they've been in office.

They've been defunding FDA, FEMA, and the SEC just to name a few. That's why you get natural disaster relief that's woefully inadequate, a spike in contaminated food, and financial chicanery like Bernie Madoff. But who needs anybody minding the store?

They've were steadily slashing agencies and subcontracting more and more. Rumsfeld gave a big speech to the Pentagon right around 9/11 about how they were going to cut federal jobs and allow the "private" sector to take control. Like how they allowed food companies to hire their own food inspectors.

Why should I be surprised you don't have a clue to what your government was doing? I guess talk radio and Fox News don't tell you these things.

who defunded the FDIC?

Submitted by RisingTide on Wed, 04/29/2009 - 09:55.

*snerk* two guesses on this one.

Great idea

Submitted by milez on Sat, 07/04/2009 - 04:51.

This is a great idea. If the poll is not just casting out it will have a better result. And if the voter explain the reason of his casting on something or his/her opinion and  voters are provided a brief explanation about it.

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