Unique web test says, would you believe, ‘both’ With the election campaign reaching the eve of the last debate, President Obama has talked extensively about his future plans in the very successful second debate, and has aired an ad narrated by Morgan Freeman, talking...
The campaign has reached a tipping point where we believe the president has to offer a bold narrative, policies and choice if he is to win re-election and get to a substantial enough victory that enables him to govern and face the great challenges ahead. The first...
Single women, people of color and young people – the Rising American Electorate — voted for change in 2008. To understand the dynamics of this election, Women’s Voices. Women Vote Action Fund and Democracy Corps engaged in a three-phase research project with a...
Strong Debate Performance Does Not Seem Likely to Change Political Calculus Working in partnership with the Women’s Voices. Women Vote Action Fund, Democracy Corps seated a group of 45 swing voters in Denver to watch and react to the first Presidential...
This is the second bipartisan survey for NPR conducted by Democracy Corps and Resurgent Republic. It is based on a national likely voter survey of 800 interviews, with an over-sample of interviews in the battleground states. The observations herein do not...
In this intensely partisan season, money in politics is one issue that breaks through the partisanship and the campaign media fog. This newbattleground survey, conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for Democracy Corps and Public Campaign Action Fund in the 54 most...
Just who has Mitt Romney written off? More than half of all Obama voters attended college. More than half of all Obama voters are women. And more than half consider themselves to be middle class.
President Obama emerged from his convention with the biggest lead of the year in our polling—and at 50 percent in the race. According to the latest national survey by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for Democracy Corps, the President holds a 5-point lead on the ballot, up a...
This is a close presidential race where President Obama and the Democrats still need a good convention to get momentum and define the choice in the election to lock in their 3- or 4-point lead. In our view, that is very likely. The reason why we think it is...
These graphs analyze results from a national web survey of likely 2012 voters. This experiment tested videos of nationally-recognized economists speaking about economic problems and presenting solutions based on their analysis. This was a powerful and successful...
When Mitt Romney announced Paul Ryan as his running mate this morning, the Wisconsin Congressman’s budget became constitutive to Romney’s candidacy—in selecting Ryan, Romney not only supports, but also adopts, the principles and priorities in Paul Ryan’s radical...
Less than 100 days until the election, the latest battleground survey by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for Democracy Corps shows Democrats with an advantage in the most vulnerable tier of Republican districts. The first Democracy Corps survey of the...
Republicans are running heatedly on health care – repealing “ObamaCare” – and it is a cornerstone of their strategy. Winning on health care is critical to their motivation and to what they believe is the edge they need to ultimately prevail over Obama and...
The weekend media has reported the presidential race as virtually dead even and challenged the two campaigns — what are your plans now? But while the election is close, it is very important to underscore that President Obama and the Democrats have a...
We learned a great deal about health care reform in the survey we conducted together with Resurgent Republic for NPR. Above all, Democrats can feel very comfortable talking about it and engaging the Republicans and outside Super PACs with confidence that they...
The most recent survey and focus groups by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for Democracy Corps reveal deep opposition to the Ryan budget– and its potential to damage Mitt Romney’s candidacy if he embraces it in the coming campaign.[1] At the outset, the Ryan budget...
It’s the Middle Class, Stupid! confirms what we have all suspected: Washington and Wall Street have 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....
Romney and Republicans hit ceiling from unfavorability President Obama’s approval has improved to 47 percent, and he now leads Mitt Romney on the ballot by a 3-point margin, 49 percent to 46 percent—a net 3-point improvement since last month, according to the latest...
Campaign for America’s Future and Democracy Corps Poll Finds Strong Support for President Obama and Overwhelming Backlash Against Wall Street and Money in Politics. A poll by Democracy Corps of progressives attending the Campaign for America’s Future Take Back the...
What is clear from this fresh look at public consciousness on the economy is how difficult this period has been for both non-college-educated and college-educated voters – and how vulnerable the prevailing narratives articulated by national Democratic leaders are.[1] ...
