With the country on the precipice of a major health and economic crisis, we are clearly headed into uncharted waters. At the same time, when it comes to politics and an election that’s just eight months away, we can only work with the information we have today and adjust accordingly. […] Read more »
Young Voters Know What They Want. But They Don’t See Anyone Offering It.
The oldest of them were just out of college on 9/11; the youngest were not yet born. Over the two decades that followed, they all came of age under storm clouds: of war, of recession, of mass shootings, wildfires and now a pandemic. The result is perhaps the most profound […] Read more »
Democrats sound the alarm on Joe Biden’s young voter problem
Joe Biden consolidated his gains as he races to the Democratic nomination, dominated in a trio of primaries last Tuesday among voters male and female, rich and poor, white and non-white, college and high school graduates. But there was one glaring exception: Young voters. Voters under 45 continued to support […] Read more »
How It All Came Apart for Bernie Sanders
In mid-January, a few weeks before the Iowa caucuses, Senator Bernie Sanders’s pollster offered a stark prognosis for the campaign: Mr. Sanders was on track to finish strong in the first three nominating states, but Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s powerful support from older African-Americans could make him a resilient foe […] Read more »
Donald Trump starts 2020 in the worst polling position since Harry Truman
… Trump is the first incumbent president to be trailing at this point in the general election cycle (i.e. late March in the election year) since Harry Truman in 1948. Now, we’re still more than half a year away from the election. It would be easy to dismiss Biden’s advantage […] Read more »
Rising Stakes And Electability: Presidential And Senate Battleground Poll
As the stakes in the US elections rise through each day of the pandemic, the country is sending a very clear signal about the Democratic nominee and electability. Democracy Corps conducted a 1,000-sample mostly cell-phone survey and a 2,900-sample web panel survey on behalf of the non-profit and non-partisan Center […] Read more »