Anyone who knows me well knows I am usually eyeing the oven for the next fresh batch of in-depth public-opinion data from Democracy Corps, a partnership between legendary Democratic strategists Stan Greenberg and James Carville that just celebrated its 15th anniversary. It gets even better when the two team up with Resurgent Republic, cofounded by veteran GOP pollster Whit Ayres, as they did to craft a national survey of 840 likely 2014 voters (including 50 percent reached on cellular phones) conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. The survey was conducted March 19-23 for NPR, and it probed voters’ attitudes on the Affordable Care Act, the state of the economy, and their choices in November. …
Some of the survey’s most intriguing findings were message tests on the Affordable Care Act and the economy, with one set of messages written by the Democrats and one set written by the Republicans. The findings should give both sides pause: Just as the Affordable Care Act may not be the universally deadly weapon most Republicans seem to think it is, focusing on the economy and a minimum-wage hike may not be the salvation many Democrats seem to think it could be. CONT.
Charlie Cook