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Commentary: The Power Poll – A peek at 2022 (and beyond)
The Nashville economy will continue its thundering roar into 2022 and advance upon its explosive growth in prior years, according to the December Nashville Power Poll. Members were also asked whether it would be a good or bad thing if Facebook were to open up a massive headquarters here, as is being rumored. A majority […]
Statewide Power Poll: Majority strongly oppose recent special session COVID bills
The Tennessee General Assembly’s recent special session on COVID-19, which dramatically lowered the state’s COVID-19 response on everything from masks to vaccines, was met with big blowback in a statewide Power Poll. More than two-thirds of the voting Power Poll members in Knoxville, Memphis, Chattanooga, and Nashville, as well as the state’s rural and suburban […]
Commentary: Power Poll members say U.S. is in decline
In one of the more downbeat and depressed projections made in the history of Power Poll, a plurality of members participating in our statewide August survey say the nation overall is “declining.” Approximately 10 percent went so far as to say the declines were so precipitous that the American success story is over and done […]
Nashville Power Poll: Power poll respondents strongly oppose tax reduction referendums
Nashville Power Poll members are overwhelmingly opposed to rolling back the city’s recent property tax hike. They also oppose amending the Metro Charter in a host of other areas, such as requiring elections if taxes are increased by more than 3%. Requiring such referendums would significantly weaken the mayor, and Metro Council, and turn us […]
Power Poll: No statue for Dolly, bachelorettes are lucrative irritant
NO BIG STATUE FOR DOLLY Power Poll members don’t want a statue of Dolly Parton on the grounds of the state Capitol (as some legislators have suggested). BACHELORETTES: DRINK LESS, SPEND MORE While Power-Pollers aren’t crazy about Nashville as the weekly home for Bachelorette Bacchanalia, they do want the economic impact bachelorette parties bring. AND […]
Nashville Power Poll: The chattering class assesses Mayor John Cooper, former Mayor Barry and redistricting
Nashville Power Poll members are giving Mayor John Cooper some mediocre grades. Depending on how you look at it, he comes out with a B- or C+. Passable. But nothing to write home about. Meanwhile, former Mayor Megan Barry, who as we all know left office in a cloud of chaos three years ago, is […]
Power Poll Statewide: We Should Be Spending Money, Not Putting It In Rainy Day Fund
A statewide Tennessee Power Poll shows respondents want our state government to spend more money helping people hard hit by the economy and COVID-19 and whatever else is descending on us these days. Many fewer are in favor of the governor’s proposal to set aside $50 million in these troubled times for our “rainy day […]
Power Poll Prediction: Hagerty & Blackburn Will Not Vote to Convict Trump
Our pro-Trump senators in Washington D.C. will not vote to convict former President Donald Trump in his likely impeachment trial, according to the most recent Nashville Power Poll. The margins of this prediction were astronomical. As to whether the Senate overall will vote to impeach Trump, Power Poll members predicted the Senate would not. Our […]
Tennessee’s U.S. Senators hit hard in Nashville Power Poll
Tennessee’s two U.S. senators, Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, were harshly judged in a snap Nashville Power Poll for their decisions—which each later reversed—to challenge Joe Biden’s election as president. Nearly nine in 10 respondents rated the duo’s actions as “extremely poor.” A snap Power Poll was emailed to members late Wednesday afternoon and closed […]