The Topline: The MassINC Polling Group Year in Review

Watching opinion shift over weeks, months, or years warms our hearts like chestnuts roasting on an open fire. As the year comes to a close, it's only right that we take a look back at our own trends - the polls, stories, and data points that shaped our year. 

Here at the MassINC Polling Group, we elevate the public's voice through research, bringing it to conversations about the future of policy, politics, and business. The public's voice is not always convenient. It's not always tidy. But democracy functions better when leaders know what their constituents think. 

We've collected many of our public releases below for your perusal. Thank you for supporting our work in 2019, and we look forward to bringing you many more trends from Massachusetts and beyond in 2020. 

Happy Holidays,

The MassINC Polling Group

Polling

• Massachusetts voters feeling strain from transportation challenges, support policy changes including new funding (April 2019) 

• Poll says Mass. commuters are angry and stressed, want improvements (April 2019)

• MPG's Steve Koczela testifies on regional ballot initiatives for transportation (June 2019)

• Whose Waterfront? How Boston residents think about their Waterfront as development accelerates (June 2019)

• WBUR Poll: Two-Thirds of Greater Boston Voters Say Transportation Is Worse Than 5 Years Ago (June 2019)

• WBUR Election Poll Finds Voters Care Most About Health Care, Immigration and Jobs (Sep 2019)

• MassINC Pollster Explains New WBUR Election Poll (Sep 2019)

• Supporting College Student Mental Health: Parents' Perspectives (Oct 2019)

• Most Mass. Voters Favor Trump Impeachment and Removal (Oct 2019) 

• Get a Move On: Mass voters ready for action on transportation upgrades (Nov 2019)

• WBUR Poll: Buttigieg, Biden Top N.H. Primary Race, While Warren's Support Slips (Dec 2019)

• Poll: N.H. Voters Hold Strong Opinions On Immigration - Even If They're Not Personally Affected (Dec 2019)

• Voters in largest Northeast, Mid-Atlantic states are open to new policy to reduce transportation emissions (Dec 2019)

• New poll shows Pete Buttigieg winning in key swing state New Hampshire as Elizabeth Warren slips (Dec 2019)

Analysis

• 24 Percent Of 7th District Primary Voters Had Not Voted In Previous 5 Primaries (Jan 2019)

• Why Elizabeth Warren's 'likability' won't matter (Jan 2019)

• Shutdown sending Trump poll numbers down (Jan 2019)

• Boston's Parking Permit Debate Highlights Inequities of Vehicle Access, City Resources (May 2019)

• Mass. Residents Want Government Action on High Drug Prices (June 2019)

• Did Liss-Riordan overstep on Second Amendment? (Aug 2019) 

• Who's looking at a Kennedy-Markey race? (Aug 2019)

• Wait Wait, Don't Primary Me (Aug 2019)

• Polling, like everything else, is moving online (Sep 2019)

• Kennedy vs. Markey is no Pressley vs. Capuano (Sep 2019)

• 4 Takeaways From Mapping The Boston City Council At-Large Preliminary (Sep 2019)

• Americans evenly divided on impeachment (Oct 2019)

• Mass. Voters offer Warren a warning on Medicare for All (Nov 2019)  

• Analysis: Bloomberg Isn't Campaigning in N.H., And The State's Voters Seem OK With That (Dec 2019)

The Horse Race Highlights (a selection)

• Episode 65: Churchill "Shut" Downs

• Episode 73: The Young and the Vote-less

• Episode 77: Fevered Pitches

• Episode 96: The Morse Race

• Episode 102: The Horse Race LIVE: And They're Off!