Like so many political fights, the one between President Obama and Republicans over income inequality has become a battle over language. Is it about inequality of incomes or of opportunity? On this question, the president and his party have moved in Republicans’ — and voters’ — direction. … Democrats have […] Read more »
Should Democrats Stick to Mudslinging to Distract Voters From Obama?
… As much as anything, midterm elections tend to be a referendum on the incumbent president. When voters are unhappy, they tend to vote to punish the president’s party’s candidates. If voters are satisfied, they generally find some other basis on which to decide their vote. It may be unfair, […] Read more »
Democrats better hope 2014 isn’t an Obama referendum
If the 2014 election is a referendum on President Obama, Democrats are in deep trouble. That’s according to a new state-by-state study of Obama’s job-approval ratings released by Gallup that puts his disapproval rating at over 50 percent in 10 of the 21 states where Democrats are defending Senate seats […] Read more »
Why Economic Inequality Is a Winning Issue
Class warfare! That’s what Republicans call it when Democrats talk about the need to address the problem of growing economic inequality in the United States. They claim that it’s wrong to focus attention on the growing concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny minority of corporate executives and […] Read more »
‘Wacko Birds’ Cloud Republicans’ Election Euphoria
Some Republicans envisioned a successful rope-a-dope strategy for this year’s elections: Don’t make mistakes, and let the Democrats stew in the juices of Obamacare and a strapped middle class. That take-no-risks approach is unraveling. Congressional Republicans are offering proposals on major matters, and the party’s right wing — whose members […] Read more »
Conversation with Stan Greenberg
Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg joins us on the Political Wire podcast to look at how well President Obama laid the groundwork in his State of the Union address for the 2014 midterm elections. CONT. Political Wire Read more »