Dan Judy’s comments in US News and World Report regarding the debt limit vote:

“Getting the debt limit out of the way is a great move for Republicans, because every time they pick a fight on that issue, they lose and make themselves more unpopular in the process,” says Dan Judy, a Republican pollster. “Republicans already have the wind at their backs headed into the midterms, and taking the debt limit off the table allows them to go on offense against Democrats on the issues that are going to matter most in November: the still-struggling economy and the disastrous rollout of Obamacare.”

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Whit Ayres’ comments in the Wall Street Journal regarding the debt limit vote:

“The government shutdown was a watershed moment,” said Whit Ayres, a GOP pollster. The speaker’s decision to allow a debt-limit increase reflects “the recognition we need to find other strategies and better tactics for advancing a conservative fiscal agenda.”

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Jon McHenry’s comments in the Washington Times regarding President Obama’s plans to increase the use of executive orders:

“I think what it does is fire up Republicans to turn out to make sure they put in a Senate majority that can stop Obama,” said Republican pollster Jon McHenry, vice president of North Star Opinion Research in Alexandria, Va. “You’re going to see Republicans all up in arms that Obama’s going against the Constitution and trying to be a king and a dictator. It helps ramp up Republican turnout that was already probably going to be pretty good.”

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Whit Ayres’ comments in the Wall Street Journal regarding Chris Christie:

Republican pollster Whit Ayres said Friday that Mr. Wildstein’s claims weren’t sufficient to conclude that Mr. Christie knew about the lane closures, or that he would suffer additional political damage.

“If what the governor said in his press conference turns out to be completely true, he’s fine,” Mr. Ayres said. “If there’s hard, verifiable evidence that what he said is not true, he’s in big trouble. What I’ve seen today hardly lives up to that standard.”

“Anybody can say anything in politics, but that doesn’t make it true,” Mr. Ayres said. “This hasn’t changed anything until you get hard, incontrovertible evidence, particularly from someone who may have a motive to say certain things. That’s just courtroom 101.”

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Whit Ayres’ comments in The Hill on Senator Marco Rubio’s War on Poverty speech:

“If you go back and listen to the speeches Marco Rubio gave when he was a Senate candidate in Florida, expanding access to the American dream was at the core of his message,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster who counts Rubio as a client. “It is vitally important, in his mind, to break the cycle of poverty and create additional upward social and economic mobility.”

Ayres put the speech in the context of former President Reagan and former Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.), icons who reinvigorated Republican politics by heralding the promise of conservative policies for all economic classes, including the lowest.

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