This week, I had the opportunity to listen in on a briefing call led by Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg of Democracy Corps and Page Gardner, founder and president of the Women’s Voices Women’s Vote Action Fund. Based on their findings from a recent survey by Democratic firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner […] Read more »
How the Republicans could win big in the 2014 Senate elections
Republicans’ chance to win back the United States Senate in 2014 are up. Analysts from Nate Silver to Sean Trende put the chances at just south to about 50% for Republicans to take the six seats necessary to gain 51 seats. Why are Republicans doing so well? … What demographics […] Read more »
The Cross-Wind Election
Which way will the political winds be blowing in 2014? At this point, it looks more like a cross-wind, with both parties likely to face some resistance, but not the kind of crushing political headwinds faced by Republicans in 2006 or Democrats in 2010. [cont.] Amy Walter, Cook Political Report Read more »
Long Odds for House Democrats
… Democrats can do everything right during this 2014 election cycle, but they still don’t have much of a chance of capturing a majority due to the congressional district boundaries and recent voting patterns in Southern and border states in rural and small-town-dominated districts. However, if Republicans engage in enough […] Read more »
Senate Control in 2014 Increasingly Looks Like a Tossup
This weekend’s announcement by the former governor of Montana, Brian Schweitzer, that he would not seek that state’s Democratic nomination for Senate represents the latest in a series of favorable developments for Republicans as they seek control of the chamber. … A race-by-race analysis of the Senate, in fact, suggests […] Read more »
Danger Ahead for Democrats: The Passion Gap
… On a brilliantly sunny July Fourth, I spoke with about three dozen voters milling in parks, in this professional-tilting suburb wedged between Denver and Boulder, and in Littleton, a more blue-collar community south of Denver. Despite all the state’s political tumult, the conversations mostly demonstrated the stability of attitudes […] Read more »