Was Barack Obama Bad for Democrats?
By Stanley Greenberg & Anna Greenberg This article appeared in the New York Times on December 23, 2016. President Obama will be remembered as a thoughtful and dignified president who led a scrupulously honest administration that achieved major changes. People...
The New Republican Coalition & its First Challenges
Democracy Corps’ new “Republican Party Project” survey of the GOP’s potential coalition exposes the very new dynamics created by Donald Trump and the 2016 election. Pay close attention because there are risks and opportunities all around.[1] This group of Republican...The politics of the Rising American Electorate
By Stanley Greenberg, co-founder of Democracy Corps and Page Gardner, president and found of Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund.Appeared on TheHill.com on December 5, 2016 For more than a decade now, we have been predicting that the changing demographic...Why did pollsters like me fail to predict Trump’s victory?
American voters were desperate for change, so Hillary Clinton’s late focus on continuity and incrementalism shifted the balance – ultimately producing a reactionary result By Stanley GreenbergAppeared in The Guardian on November 15, 2016. America is being shaped...The unheard winning economic agenda: report from Roosevelt Institute election night poll
Last week, the American people were determined to vote for change – change that would crash the dominance of special interests over government and bring bold economic policies so the economy would work for everyone, not just the wealthy and well-connected. That...
Why Trump Won: Part 1
We are entering a period too awful to contemplate, and James and I thought it important to share our first take on what happened and why. Thankfully, Women’s Voices Women’s Vote Action Fund and the Roosevelt Institute supported this election night survey and critical...
Opposition to trade and TPP grows over course of campaign
Democracy Corps and GQR conducted a national survey for Public Citizen on attitudes towards trade and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the multi-nation trade agreement that President Obama may be sent to Congress for consideration immediately after the...
Strategy for Maximizing Democratic Gains
Democracy Corps’ new national survey shows Democrats have an opportunity to make significant gains if they have the right strategy in the final weeks of the campaign. This survey came out of the field on Monday night, just in time to arm campaigns, committees and...
Clinton in 12-point lead, potential for downballot gains
The final pre-election national survey for Democracy Corps shows Clinton moving into a commanding 12-point lead over Trump, getting to 50 percent of the vote as the third party vote is squeezed.[1] This lead is produced by some historic voting patterns and a...
Debate dial meters show Clinton made gains & defined election choice
The final debate was a very good night for Hillary Clinton. Live dial meter focus groups conducted on behalf of Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund reveal Clinton won the night 57 to 26 percent. She achieved this by her clarity of plans and self-confidence, by focus...
Trump Scorched Earth Plan Threatens Downballot Republicans
For at-risk Republican candidates, wrestling with how to run vis-à-vis Donald Trump is nothing new. Distancing yourself from Trump risks alienating his hardcore supporters, but embracing Trump could push away moderate Republicans and swing voters turned off by the GOP...
The millennial strategy
Millennials are poised to give Hillary Clinton and Democrats a big margin in November’s election if they are engaged to vote and if progressives are smart in dealing with the third party vote. Millennial voters are in a very different place than they were two...
Clinton defines the election as clear cut economic choice and those are the marching orders for a down-ballot wave
Over the past week, Hillary Clinton’s focus on the economy has given Democrats their marching orders for consolidating Democrats and her vote down-ballot. The powerful economic message she articulated in the debate and in Toledo should unify the Democratic offer in...Dial Meters Show Clinton Wins First Debate: Win Produces Important Shifts to Clinton
Hillary Clinton won the first debate against Donald Trump and likely produced electoral shifts, according to participants in a live dial meter focus group organized by Democracy Corps and commissioned by Women’s Voices. Women Vote Action Fund.[1] These participants,...
Consolidating Democrats: The strategy that gives a governing majority
On the eve of the first major presidential debate, the latest likely voter survey of the battleground states on behalf of Women’s Voices. Women Vote Action Fund shows Hillary Clinton settled into a strong lead in Pennsylvania, a modest one in North Carolina, and...The Trans-Partisan Trade Revolt: Voters of both parties are pressuring politicians to oppose corporate influence over trade.
By Stanley GreenbergAppeared in U.S. News & World Report on September 9, 2016. The heated opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership in this year’s presidential election has surprised the policy elite and pundits. They may be even more astonished by what...The Wave
America is about to experience a once-in-a-lifetime earthquake of an election, but progressives do not seem to trust the new American majority and its ascendant values and thus, continue to be tactical, reactive, and fight old wars. As a result, they may miss the...
A Mandate to Rewrite the Rules of the Economy
As the two party conventions were starting, Donald Trump enjoyed about a 4-point advantage on the economy and that is what keeps him in the race to November.[1] According to a new Democracy Corps survey on behalf of the Roosevelt Institute, the election and the battle...
