Last fall, Democrat Terry McAuliffe defied the odds and beat Republican Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia’s gubernatorial race. Democrats, already suffering from President Obama’s flagging approval rating and ominous Senate prospects, began hoping they could tune out other failures and use their strategy in that swing-state race as a template to […] Read more »
Out with the old: Americans have little good to say about 2013
Most Americans won’t remember 2013 fondly, but people are happier about this year than they were last year or in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Put simply, most Americans are happy to see 2013 go. In the latest Economist/YouGov Poll, more than two-thirds view the year as one that […] Read more »
Chris Christie’s Midterm Marker
Probably no election this year has been more important to the presidential politics of 2016 than Republican Gov. Chris Christie’s landslide 60% reelection victory in Democratic-leaning New Jersey. It cemented his place in the front ranks of Republican presidential contenders by demonstrating his vote-getting appeal to constituencies that the GOP […] Read more »
The Economic Implications of the 2013 Elections
… In 2013, voters across the country approached the polls with a very clear agenda, expressing not only their ongoing anxiety about the state of the economy, but also their strong desire to help the middle class and level the economic playing field for working families. This trend was not […] Read more »
Narrow tea party losses are wake-up call for Republicans
The Republican establishment went into last week’s off-year elections believing that the tea party insurrectionists who have ripped apart the GOP in recent years would suffer enough damage to force them into some kind of retreat. But no one thinks that happened. The expectation now is that the long-running internal […] Read more »
YG Virginia: Virginia Post-Election Survey
… At our request, McLaughlin & Associates surveyed 600 Virginia gubernatorial election voters on the evening of November 5th regarding their 2013 ballots and a variety of other timely issues. … In analyzing this wide-ranging survey, our main conclusion is that conservatives are most likely to succeed in the policy […] Read more »