Democrats Must not Draw the Wrong Lessons from Labour’s Defeat
© Shannon Stapleton/Reuters Our founder Stan Greenberg wrote an op-ed in the Financial Times urging Democrats not to learn the wrong lessons from Labour’s collapse in the age of Brexit. Donald Trump, unlike Boris Johnson, has lost much of his support among white...
Trump mobilizes his Tea Party observant base, but at high cost
President Trump‘s actions and impeachment has indeed energized Trump’s base of Evangelicals, Tea Party and “Barr” Catholics who form 65 percent of the GOP, but losing ground with moderates where disapproval is high. It has also created a daunting anti-Trump Democratic...
The Trump GOP’s Deepening Fractures
President Donald Trump has a loyal base of support among the Evangelicals, Observant Catholics, and Tea Party who form 70 percent of the party, and only a few brave elected Republicans are likely to oppose him. But strong anti-Trump fractures run through the remaining...
Anti-Trump Presidential Race Defined Early – October Battleground Survey
In this first Presidential and Senate Battleground Survey of the year, Democrats are out to a convincing lead ahead of Trump, remaining consistent with data from our National Surveys. We polled a total of 3,500 registered voters across 17 battleground states from...
Emerging 2020 Combined Data Set
This combined data set includes the two national surveys Democracy Corps completed in July and September and a total of 2,800 responses. The larger data set allows us to better examine the divisions within the Republican party and also understand variables like...
National Phone Survey — September
This survey of 800 registered voters between September 7th and September 11th highlighted the continued divide between the president and top Democratic candidates. Ordinary voters have pushed back sharply against President Trump whose administration has waged an...
2020 Takes on new Clarity and Urgency
We sampled 1700 registered voters between July 18 to 28, before the 2nd wave of presidential debates and found that Democrats are on track to a huge upset of President Donald Trump. Both candidates Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren win in a head to head contest with...
White Working Class Voters Turned off by Trump?
President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., Thursday, March 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) President Donald Trump has dramatically escalated his attack on immigrants, the squad of female Congresswomen of color, two Muslim,...
June debate dial meter show Democrats even more engaged
On behalf of the American Federation of Teachers, the Voter Participation Center, and Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund, Democracy Corps conducted live dial-meter testing of the June 26th and 27th Democratic Presidential Debates among the Rising American...
Democratic Debates 2019 Dial Meter Results
On behalf of the American Federation of Teachers and the Voter Participation Center, Democracy Corps conducted online dial meter research during the June Democratic Presidential debates among almost 200 registered voters nationally. All but...
Registering women in the RAE: what are you waiting for?
With voters turning out at historic levels in 2018 and people now following politics more closely than at any point in the past, WVWVAF asked us whether progressives should start working to register unregistered and low propensity voters? It usually conducts its...
Trump promised a new trade policy. But his new NAFTA might be worse than the old one.
By Stanley Greenberg. This article appeared on the Washington Post website on April 10, 2019. Donald Trump disrupted the 2016 election and won many “forgotten Americans” in part by promising to fight for lower prescription drug prices and to tear up or...
Women in the Rising American Electorate are immediate registration targets
In light of the historic 2018 turnout and even higher interest in the 2020 election found in Democracy Corps’ first survey of 2019, we were tasked by WVWVAF to conduct focus groups with unregistered and low propensity voters among the Rising American Electorate to...
State of the Union 2019 Dial Meter Results
On behalf of the Voter Participation Center and Women’s Voices. Women Vote Action Fund, Democracy Corps conducted live dial-meter testing of the 2019 State of the Union address among the Rising American Electorate (African Americans, Latinos,...
First poll of 2020 cycle – wow!
Democracy Corps has conducted its first national poll of the 2020 cycle and the more you stare at the data, the more you conclude that voters are intent on making history again. This memorandum is focused on the degree of engagement, the consolidation of...First national poll shows electorate even more polarized, politicized, and determined to vote
Unsurprisingly, our first survey of 2019, conducted during the government shutdown, shows those saying the country is on the wrong track up sharply since the November election. This is a stunning start to the new year. Since Trump took office, voters were only more...
Trump’s campaign united & polarized the GOP
President Trump made immigration the top reason to vote against Democrats among all off-year voters and succeeded in making the Democrats’ support of “open borders and sanctuary cities” the top reason to oppose them in every faction of the GOP, including the...
