Getting to the bold policy offer winning now requires
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...
Winning ‘the 47 Percent’
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...
Romney Has a Good Night, But No Evidence of Changing the Game
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...
New Poll with Resurgent Republic for NPR
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 Congressional Battleground, Voters Intensely Concerned About Money in Politics
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...
Who are the 47%?
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.
Obama Builds Real Lead in Presidential Contest
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...
James Carville and Stan Greenberg: The big things that Obama can get done at his convention
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...
Impacting the Big Economic Argument
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...Paul Ryan Pick Could Seriously Erode Romney’s Support
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...
100 Days Out: From Serious Vulnerability to a Wave Election
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...
A Pivotal Political Moment on Health Care
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...
Obama and Democrats have clear advantage in 2012 election
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...
Democrats can win the health care argument
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...
Serious Attack on Ryan Budget Takes Toll on Mitt Romney
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...
Democracy Corps congratulates Stan Greenberg and James Carville on the publication of their new book, It’s the Middle Class, Stupid!
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....
