“American Mosaic” is Reuters’ unique campaign polling initiative for 2012, executed in partnership with Ipsos. The project targets 10 demographic groups of special interest in this presidential race.
Young, worried and unsure - about both candidates
ROCHESTER HILLS, Michigan - A Reuters/Ipsos poll of recent graduates reveals a drop in support for President Barack Obama compared with 2008, but it shows no movement toward the GOP. Full Article
After missteps, Romney adds to communications team
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney added two Washington veterans to his media relations team after weeks of criticism that he didn't respond strongly enough to attacks from the Obama campaign. Full Article
Maine governor draws ire with new IRS “Gestapo” comments
Maine's Republican governor ignited a fresh firestorm when, for the second time in a week, he compared the Internal Revenue Service to the Gestapo, Nazi Germany's murderous secret police.
About this series
“American Mosaic” is Reuters’ unique campaign polling initiative for 2012, executed in partnership with Ipsos. The online polling effort, whose methodology has been statistically validated, will reach 12,000 Americans each month, more than 120,000 by Election Day, constituting an unprecedented sample of the U.S. electorate. The “micro-polling” project, effectively a poll within a poll, targets 10 demographic groups of special interest in this presidential race. Each of the targeted groups will be the subject of in-depth reporting as well as photojournalism and video, resulting in a multidimensional portrait of these critical communities. Profiled here is the first of them, military veterans and the families of veterans who have served since the first Persian Gulf War.