The most recent battleground survey conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for Democracy Corps and Public Campaign Action Fund fielded just one week after the Supreme Court handed down its decision in McCutcheon v. FEC. This survey of the 50 most competitive Republican districts and 36 most competitive Democratic districts finds […] Read more »
Why Democrats Shouldn’t Be Celebrating
There seemed to be a pop-the-champagne mood among Democrats after the Obama administration’s announcement that 8 million Americans had signed up for health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act. … My impression at the time was that this sounded a bit too much like whistling past the graveyard. Now […] Read more »
Bursting the Democrats’ Midterm-Turnout Bubble
The Democratic midterm turnout problem is no secret. Young and nonwhite voters tend to stay home in off-year elections, leaving the electorate older, whiter and more Republican than in a presidential election. … Strong turnout operations can help Democrats at the margins. The Democratic turnout problem, however, is not marginal. […] Read more »
High House hopes, low Obama numbers
So how do you run your campaign in 2014 if you’re a Democrat and your president’s job approval numbers are not so good? That’s the question host Ken Rudin put to Democratic pollster and strategist Anna Greenberg in the latest installment of the Political Junkie. Greenberg acknowledges the weak numbers, […] Read more »
Slight Improvements But Tough Terrain Ahead for Democrats
Support for President Barack Obama and his health care law has increased in the weeks since the White House announced that eight million Americans have enrolled in the law’s health-insurance exchanges, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. But in spite of slight improvements from March, the poll […] Read more »
What College Towns Tell Us About Midterm Elections
… There are some unique challenges to reaching younger voters, who tend to move more often than the population at large. In a broader sense, these numbers suggest they just aren’t as interested in midterm elections, which don’t usually bring the excitement or coverage of presidential races. The difficulty in […] Read more »