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New poll: Background check position is boosting Hagan (video)

May 3, 2013 at 9:12 amCategory:Uncategorized

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One of the nation’s most influential and widely respected pollsters has new and encouraging data for Senator Kay Hagan and all those who support background checks for gun purchasers. In a poll released yesterday, Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling (see the video below) reported the following:

“PPP’s newest round of polling finds that Kay Hagan and Mary Landrieu helped their cause for reelection with their recent votes in support of background checks for gun sales. Read More…

Public Policy Polling’s Tom Jensen hits the big time

January 3, 2013 at 3:46 pmCategory:Uncategorized

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Tom Jensen 2It seems like it might be time for North Carolina’s mainstream news media types to stop referring to Raleigh’s Public Policy Polling as a “liberal” polling firm and start referring to group’s amazingly talented main guy Tom Jensen by another name — like maybe “sir.”

According to this Business Insider article, Tom is now officially one of the 36 most powerful people of 2012 in the world of American politics.

By the way, that photo of Tom in the story comes from an interview he did with Chris Fitzsimon and Clayton Henkel for NC Policy Watch’s News and Views radio show.

Pollster: When your BFF only has a 16% approval rating…(video)

February 3, 2012 at 9:50 amCategory:Uncategorized

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Earlier this week in Hendersonville, state Sen. Tom Apodaca told a crowd of supporters that they “need a  general” like Pat McCrory to lead  “the army” of Republican legislators in place at the General Assembly.

While the line may sound good in a room full of potential volunteers and donors, Public Policy Polling director Tom Jensen says it may in fact signal a misstep by the Republican gubernatorial candidate.

Jensen notes that in “buddying himself up to” a conservative legislature with a 16% approval rating, McCrory may be creating more potential trouble for himself in the fall.

Jensen says while the former Charlotte mayor currently enjoys a lead over any of his potential Democratic opponents, 57% of voters polled said they were less likely to support McCrory knowing that he supported the Republican-led budget plan, which resulted in deep cuts to public education.

Pollster Tom Jensen runs down the latest poll numbers in North Carolina’s gubernatorial contest and the presidential race this weekend on News & Views with Chris Fitzsimon. For a preview of his radio interview, click below:

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