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Decision 2024: JMC’s “Election Soundbites” (October 11 edition)

Introduction We are in the midst of election season now; in fact, people are already voting in 44 states – that we know about, and Election Day is just over three weeks away (in person early voting starts in Louisiana next Friday). Given that we’re going into the final stretch of the campaign, what has been […]

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Decision 2024: JMC’s “Election Soundbites” (August 23 edition)

Introduction Now that the Democratic convention is over, we are now officially in the “final sprint” to Election Day. Primary season has nearly concluded (Alaska, Florida, and Wyoming held their primaries this past Tuesday), which means now that only five states have not yet held their primaries. Four of those five contests will be held […]

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Decision 2024: JMC’s “Election Soundbites” (August 10 edition)

Introduction The Olympics (which concludes tomorrow) are coming to a close, and the Democratic convention in Chicago commences in 9 days. The Democrats finally have their ticket determined, as Kamala Harris chose Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. On the Congressional/statewide primary circuit, four more states (Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, and Washington) held their […]

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Decision 2024: JMC’s “Election Soundbites” (July 27 edition)

Introduction While the departure of Joe Biden from the Presidential contest has been the latest “campaign shocker”, has the Presidential race fundamentally changed ? Today, JMC will purely focus on applicable polling to evaluate the answer to this question. In the short term, the Presidential contest is about to take “second stage” to the Olympic […]

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Decision 2024: JMC’s “Election Soundbites” (July 19 edition)

We are now (from an election season perspective) in the “calm before the storm.” The Republican convention has just concluded, the opening ceremonies for the Olympics are a week from today, and then the Democratic convention convenes on August 19 in Chicago. Primary season (for Congressional, state, legislative, and local races) is also underway across […]

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Decision 2024: JMC’s “Election Soundbites” (June 13 edition)

Election Day is on November 5, which seems like the distant future (for one thing, only 25 states have even held their primaries as this article is being written), but with the major party’s nominees’ essentially being determined several months ago, now is the time to begin the discussion about the upcoming Presidential election season […]

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Louisiana Statewide Poll (Attitudes about Louisiana’s open primary system II)

Louisiana has since the 1970s had an open primary system for electing its public officials, whereby candidates (regardless of party) run on the same primary and/or general election ballot. In the first special session of 2024, the law was changed to restrict who could participate in primary elections for the US House/Senate, the Public Service […]

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Decision 2024 – Day 1 of Early Voting (Is mail in voting “a thing” now ?)

Ever since early voting was established in Louisiana nearly 20 years ago, it has steadily become an accepted method of voting, and it has reshuffled existing assumptions about how to plan “get out the vote” activities. The coronavirus pandemic of 2020-2022 added a nuance to the “accepted method of voting”, however, as mail in voting […]

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Louisiana Statewide Poll (Attitudes about Louisiana’s open primary system)

Louisiana has since the 1970s had an open primary system for electing its public officials, whereby candidates (regardless of party) run on the same primary and/or general election ballot. There is proposed legislation (as part of items to be considered in an upcoming special session to begin on January 15) to change from this open […]

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Decision 2024: National Republican Primary Poll

JMC Analytics and Polling conducted a poll of likely national Republican voters. Major takeaways are as follows: (1) Former President Trump retains the strong residual support of Republican voters, (2) Only Governor Ron DeSantis and Senator Tim Scott have similar strong favorable ratings, and, (3) Republican voters are not as monolithically conservative as narrative would […]