New Message Platform for 2018’s Key Battlegrounds: report from phone survey & web-panel in the 12-state battleground

by DC Team | May 3, 2018 | Battleground Surveys

Democrats sit at the edge of a landslide repudiation of President Trump and Republicans – in the Congress and states where they govern – in November. This is according to the first of three waves of a phone survey (conducted mostly on cell-phones) of registered...

The Democratic opportunity on the economy & tax cuts

by DC Team | Apr 11, 2018 | National Surveys

The midterm election is starting to break against Donald Trump and the Republican Party in profound ways and running on the economy and the new tax cut helps further solidify advantages for Democrats.This is according to a new AFT-Democracy Corps national...

SOTU 2018: No Sugar High

by DC Team | Feb 2, 2018 | Dial Meters

President Donald Trump delivered a remarkably unsuccessful, unimpactful State of the Union on Tuesday. This is according to live dial-meter research conducted for Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund by Democracy Corps among 108 Rising American Electorate (RAE)...

2018 at a Breaking Point? Not Yet, Says New Poll

by DC Team | Jan 24, 2018 | National Surveys

Over the last three months, Democrats have doubled their margin in the generic congressional ballot to an 11-point advantage among registered voters and an 8-point lead among likely voters nationally. That is near the 9-point margin Democrats won in 2006 when they...

The Democratic Civil War Is Getting Nasty, Even If No One Is Paying Attention

by DC Team | Nov 4, 2017 | News

By Susan Glasser. This article appeared in The New Yorker on November 1, 2017. On the morning of October 5th, President Trump was on one of his Twitter rants from the White House, denying as “fake news” an NBC report that his Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, had...

Disruptive changes among key voters in 2017

by DC Team | Nov 2, 2017 | National Surveys

There are big forces at work in the coming year that could produce an earthquake of an off-year election, including a parade of indictments, the GOP civil war playing out in Republican primaries, a congressional impasse on everything, a wrong track number nearing 75...

The Country Hates the GOP Congress: Why Don’t Democrats Have a Knock-out Lead?

by DC Team | Oct 23, 2017 | National Surveys

About 9 months into his presidency, Donald Trump has settled into a historically weak job approval of 41 percent, well below his presidential vote, and with the strong disapproval over 45 percent of voters. He remains an unrepentant divider which pervades all...

How Progressives Can Position on NAFTA Renegotiation

by DC Team | Oct 20, 2017 | National Surveys

Trade stands out from every other policy issue because Donald Trump’s unhappiness with the status quo is shared by virtually all progressive advocacy groups and nearly all Democratic Members of Congress. It is urgent for progressives to engage on trade because Trump...

Democrats Need to Lead the Fight for a Better NAFTA

by DC Team | Oct 18, 2017 | National Surveys

This op-ed appeared in The Huffington Post on October 18, 2017.Donald Trump remains deeply unpopular with the American people, and his recent actions to undermine health care and pursuit of trickle-down tax cuts will surely make matters worse. But the round of North...

NAFTA Renegotiation Requires Innovative Progressive Response

by DC Team | Sep 27, 2017 | News

Trump’s unexpected victory has disrupted progressive strategies to dominate this period, but no area has been disrupted more than trade. No other area leaves progressives more uncertain on their message and how to proceed. No other area will require as new and...

How She Lost

by DC Team | Sep 21, 2017 | News

By Stanley Greenberg for the Fall 2017 issue of The American Prospect. Hillary Clinton’s tragic 2016 campaign faced withering criticism in the press, social media, and now, in Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes’s inside account, Shattered. From my vantage point as...

Tools for a Wave in 2018

by DC Team | Jul 13, 2017 | National Surveys

The first wave of Women’s Voices. Women Vote Action Fund’s ongoing web-panel of persuasion and turnout targets with simultaneous national phone survey conducted by Democracy Corps provides progressive leaders and allies with credible tools to turn 2018 into a...

Three pieces of advice for taking on the GOP health care bill

by DC Team | Jun 23, 2017 | National Surveys

New Democracy Corps surveys on behalf of Women’s Voices. Women Vote Action Fund show a country deeply opposed to the health care plan passed by the House and now mirrored in the version under discussion in the US Senate.[1]  Opposition to the GOP health care bill...

The Democrats’ “Working Class Problem”

by DC Team | Jun 1, 2017 | News

This article originally appeared in The American Prospect on June 1st as part of the series on the White Working Class and Democrats. The road to a sustainable Democratic majority—nationally, locally, and in the states—must include much higher Democratic performance...

TIME: Women Trump Voters Are Starting to Doubt Him (by Stan Greenberg & Page Gardner)

by DC Team | Apr 21, 2017 | News

By Stan Greenberg and Page Gardner  President Donald Trump won the 2016 election partly because many Americans believed that a businessman not beholden to special interests could shake up politics, get things done and reform government so it finally works for...

Focus groups find early breakthrough moment in off-years

by DC Team | Apr 13, 2017 | Battleground Surveys

America has been roiled by the election of Donald Trump and total Republican control of the federal government. Will it be roiled again by a wave election in the coming off-year elections? That would require engaged and consolidated anti-Trump voters, demoralized...

Moving to scale to win on health care

by DC Team | Apr 5, 2017 | Battleground Surveys

The humiliating retreat of President Trump and Speaker Ryan on the Obamacare replacement was a powerful moment for working class women, financially pressed unmarried women, millennials, and minorities – both the Clinton and Trump voters. Based on the findings of...

Read the Macomb report everyone is talking about

by DC Team | Mar 27, 2017 | Archives, Macomb County

“Stan Greenberg: Presidential Pollster” appearance on Katie Couric Podcast Renowned Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg has advised the likes of Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and Nelson Mandela. But he first made a name for himself studying white working class...

Macomb County in the Age of Trump

by DC Team | Mar 9, 2017 | Archives, Macomb County

The path for Democrats to take back Trump voters and win down-ballot runs through the nation’s working class communities, starting in the formerly industrial states and Upper Midwest. That is why Democracy Corps decided to conduct our first focus groups of 2017 in...

Trump’s address increases optimism in dial meter groups, but real gains could be modest

by DC Team | Mar 1, 2017 | News

The president began the night with a majority disapproving of his performance, and he ended with a majority feeling more optimistic about him. The speech raised his personal favorability and job approval 11 points and got the attention of minority voters, though...