A Report on a post-State of the Union Battleground Poll Joe Biden can win re-election. In November, Democracy Corps showed the same difficult race as the public polls. I expected and wrote that the race would get more difficult because of continued inflation, the...
On February 5 & 6, 2024, Democracy Corps conducted focus groups with GOP moderate women from the Philadelphia suburbs, Black men in Detroit, and Hispanic women in Nevada. The groups were recruited and moderated by Z to A Research. Respondents first watched five...
A report on a new baseline battleground web-survey. President Biden trails Donald Trump by 5 points in the battleground states and loses at least another point when we include the independent candidates who get 17 percent of the vote. Biden is trying to win these...
Trump’s Republican Party is very political and engaged — across all factions. They are mostly “worried,” and the hot topics in their families are out-of-control prices, border and immigration, the cost of the Ukraine War, and woke policies being forced on their...
A large sample of registered voters watched blocks of video clips from Biden, Trump and the other Republican candidates on the evening of September 13, 2023, using Q2 methodology from Stratalys. They answered pre and post in-depth questions, followed with dial meters...
Inflation and cost of living were the top national issues, and they were national. Governors of both parties were popular and did well promoting their own economic progress and policies. But voters did expect candidates for the House and Senate to address the spiking...
The Democrats have lost ground in this survey from +3 overall margin to even in this survey — and to -2 in the likely electorate. That is driven by Democrats not addressing the top issue, cost of living, where they lost 3 points to be 3 points down and...
Democracy Corps conducted a national web survey among 2,770 registered voters from Sept. 9-15, 2022. The data include a base sample of 1,270 registered voters, with large oversamples of 500 Black voters, 500 Hispanic voters, and 500 AAPI voters. The oversample data...
Democracy Corps conducted a national web survey among 2,770 registered voters from Sept. 9-15, 2022. The data include a base sample of 1,270 registered voters, with large oversamples of 500 Black voters, 500 Hispanic voters, and 500 AAPI voters. The oversample data...
Democrats face the most daunting internal problems and headwinds getting to a winning margin in the 2022 midterms, yet this angry and Republican-leaning electorate gives them a 2-point margin in the vote. Democracy Corps conducted a national web survey among 2,500...
2022 is a tough year where Democrats are behind in the generic vote (-2) and enthusiasm (-4) in this large, national, battleground and CD survey. In this hard stimulated campaign, the Democrats remain 2 points behind, because they don’t sound discontented with...
Democratic fortunes in the midterms depend on how well they are running in their working base among Blacks, Hispanics, Asian Americans (AAPI), unmarried women, the Millennial and Gen Z generations, as well as with the under-fifty white working class women. These...
We conducted this unique research that gets a representative sample of key target groups to watch the President’s speech and do pre and post surveys. They include a lot of open-ended responses and items that get at values, emotions, and concerns about this polarized...
On behalf of PSG Consulting and the AFT, Democracy Corps on March 1, 2022, conducted online dial meter research during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Speech. Here are a few of the key takeaways: Going into speech three quarters thought country on wrong...
Biden’s State of the Union lifted his approval a bit, as well as his favorability with voters. It was comparable to gains from the DNC and much better than Trump did at the beginning of 2018. Of course, the bounce could be momentary, but in the past, the direction of...
To: Democratic leaders and progressive allies From: Stanley Greenberg Re: Key actions to raise support with all working class voters and raise Democratic margins President Biden no...
Recent research conducted by Democracy Corps, Equis Labs, and HIT Strategies for Democracy Corps, and American Federation of Teachers of Black, Hispanic, AAPI and white working class voters shows that Joe Biden and the Democrats can embrace a powerful middle...
The Child Tax Credit is new and being noticed and disrupting usual patterns of support. Support has quickly become evident among the younger populations, parents and the working class (those without a four-year degree). It gets less support with older populations and...
• Key one — recognizing that the overwhelming majority of our diverse base is the hardworking working class. They are citizens who have never completed a four-year college degree. Fully 70 percent of Blacks in HIT Strategy’s battleground survey are working class, 75...
You may think climate change is a mid-level issue based on the 27 percent who prioritize it, but the intense opposition of conservative Republicans who dominate the party obscures the issue’s importance across a broad spectrum. Nearly 60 percent of Americans believe...
Book Recommendation - It's the Middle Class, Stupid!by James Carville & Stan Greenberg
Government has really screwed things up for the average American. Work has been devalued. Education costs are out of sight. Effort and ambition have never been so scantily rewarded. Political guru James...
