focus-grouping

Washington really is focus-grouping political parties into irrelevance.

HUFFPOST HILL - Much-Needed White Guy Enters 2012 GOP Primary Eliot Nelson 2011

By yes — a “Star Chamber” of focus-grouping wingnut power-brokers bent on an insipid “Pinky and the Brain” scheme to re-jigger (Sweet God — you can't avoid inadvertent racial wordplay in dealing with this ...) the racial electoral dynamic in pushing their own “Idiot Camp” of would be candidates.

Archive 2008-02-01 2008

One of the things that was trademark Rove, trademark republican was focus-grouping everything.

The Poll Dance: No Tights - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

By yes — a “Star Chamber” of focus-grouping wingnut power-brokers bent on an insipid “Pinky and the Brain” scheme to re-jigger (Sweet God — you can't avoid inadvertent racial wordplay in dealing with this ...) the racial electoral dynamic in pushing their own “Idiot Camp” of would be candidates.

“Hello Malcolm...Hello Martin...” 2008

Among other things, he made brilliant use of focus-grouping, reworking his presentation over and over again again until he knew he had answered every question and addressed every concern a juror might have.

Obama Camp To Hillary: Not So Fast With That Coronation 2009

They're probably focus-grouping the Version 3.0 answer as we speak, assuming the campaign can scrape together the cash to put a focus group together.

Hillary Campaign Responds To Obama Hit Over Drudge Story 2009

The recent evidence includes that e-mail asking for information on Obama's days as a community organizer, focus-grouping anti-Obama ads in NH, repeatedly suggesting people do not know everything Obama, and so on.

Report: Tensions In Camp Hillary 2009

Expect the administration to be focus-grouping and trial-ballooning various euphamisms for chapter 11 to disguise this problem.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » An Enormous Blunder 2009

The Obama campaign is focus-grouping these ads to death, and people just have to stop assuming they know what "works" just because they want to see the Obama campaign hit them like they personally would if they could just scream at them for an hour in a locked room.

Obama Raised More Than $66 Million In August 2009

I'm normally not much of a fan of focus groups, but the McCain campaign really should consider focus-grouping the Phil Gramm references.

Obama, McCain Skirmish Over Gramm's "Nation Of Whiners" Comment 2009