Democrats Gaining in Battleground and Ryan Budget Could Finish the Job
Last month, virtually all House Republicans voted for Paul Ryan’s latest budget plan—(“The Path to Prosperity”)—and according to the latest battleground survey by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for Democracy Corps and Women’s Voices. Women Vote Action...
Women Push Back in the Battleground
In 2010, Republicans won the women’s vote for the first time in 30 years. Republicans rewarded this support with a raft of legislation hostile to the interests of women, beginning with one of their first pieces of legislation, H.R. 3, which attempted to redefine...
Mixed Economic Message
The President and the Democrats are indeed doing very well at the outset of 2012, and the Republicans are doing pitifully. They are not unrelated. Republicans in Congress and in the primary battles are driving independents into the Democrats’ camp and...
New Phase and Shifting Balance
The latest national survey by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for Democracy Corps and Women’s Voices. Women Vote Action Fund shows a Republican Party in deepening trouble and emerging underlying trends that may have shifted the balance for 2012.[1] Barring sudden...State of the Union 2012: ‘Built to Last’
Voters across the political spectrum reacted very favorably to President Obama’s focus on creating an economy “built to last” in his 2012 State of the Union address, according to dial tests and follow-up discussions with 50 swing voters in Denver,...President Obama Scores With Middle Class Message
Dial testing and follow-up focus groups with 50 swing voters in Denver, Colorado show that President Obama’s populist defense of the middle class and their priorities in his State of the Union scored with voters.[1] The President generated strong responses...Media Advisory: Immediate Analysis of President Obama’s State of the Union Address
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...Two years after Citizens United, voters fed up with money in politics
The 2012 election will be the most expensive in history, fueled by unlimited spending by super PACs and other political groups, as well as candidates’ furious fundraising to keep up. On the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Citizens...
Presidential primary contest and pre-Christmas showdown put Republicans at risk
This first Democracy Corps national survey of the New Year shows Republicans at risk at every level.[1] On the ballot, Republicans are in serious danger. For the first time since the 2010 election, Democrats have taken the lead in the congressional vote and this...
Exploiting Republican Weakness in the Battleground
The Rising American Electorate provides opportunities to consolidate gains in the Republican battleground. A new Democracy Corps/Women’s Voices. Women Vote Action Fund (WVWVAF) survey shows incumbents in 60 Republican-held battleground districts badly out of...Republican Incumbents Out of Touch and Increasingly Vulnerable
These ‘no-tax’ Republicans are out of touch with their districts, polling below 50 percent, and losing ground. The latest Democracy Corps survey of the Republican House battleground shows the incumbents out of touch with their districts, a climate less...Seizing the New Progressive Common Ground
The new progressive coalition shared an antipathy toward George W. Bush and his worldview, opposition to the Iraq War, and frustration with the lack of income and job growth – even before the economic crisis. They came to share a belief in Barack Obama. But then...Winning the Economic Argument
The economic outlook could not be darker or more important. Voters’ economic mood and judgments about the leaders and parties on the economy are the main drivers and strongest predictors of the presidential and congressional votes in this survey. And which party...Occupy Politics
The latest national survey by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for Democracy Corps reveals an intensely anti-establishment, anti-Washington, anti-Wall Street moment. Three quarters of all voters say the country is on the wrong track; just 15 percent believe we are heading in...The Democratic Strategist on Democracy Corps’ Innovative Polling
A new pair of articles by The Democratic Strategist highlights Democracy Corps’ cutting edge and deeply innovative research and methodology. Andrew Levison of the Democratic Strategist reports:Â Every serious observer and participant in the formulation of...Take Back the American Dream Conference participants call for stronger, bolder, more progressive agenda
The Democracy Corps-Campaign for America’s Future straw poll of Take Back the American Dream conference participants found strong support for President Obama and the jobs bill but also reveals a strong desire to go further and strong support for independent...Crisis of Legitimacy
The most recent CNN/ORC International survey finds that “The public’s trust in the federal government has dropped to an all-time low… Just 15 percent of Americans now say they trust the government to do what’s right just about...
