For the California economy, surf’s up. And that could hasten the end of a long drought for the state in presidential politics. In early May, California marked a striking milestone in its recovery from its economic tailspin earlier in the 2000s when new data showed the state has surged past […] Read more »
Americans are generally positive about free trade agreements, more critical of tariff increases
Americans’ views of free trade agreements, which turned more negative during the 2016 presidential campaign, are now about as positive as they were prior to the campaign. And when asked about proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum, more say they would be bad for the country than say they would […] Read more »
CBS News Poll: Trump’s job approval ticks up
President Trump’s approval rating has inched up to 40 percent, the first time in a year that the president’s approval has hit that mark. A majority still disapproves. The president’s rating on handling North Korea elicits positive ratings for him; his handling of the economy is mixed and ratings on […] Read more »
Macomb and America’s new political moment
On the one-year anniversary of the Trump presidency, Democracy Corps traveled to Michigan to speak with the white working class Obama-Trump voters of Macomb County, the African American women of Detroit and the college educated women of suburban Southfield. Each, in their own way, had contributed to one of the […] Read more »
You Can’t Separate Money From Culture
Why did white working-class voters shift toward Donald Trump in the 2016 election? Was it about money or culture — their struggles in the new economy or their prejudices? … To be sure, racism is a corrosive part of American culture and politics. Nevertheless, those who try to distinguish between […] Read more »
New message platform for 2018’s key battlegrounds: Report from phone survey & web-panel in the 12-state battleground
Democrats sit at the edge of a landslide repudiation of President Trump and Republicans – in the Congress and states where they govern – in November. This is according to the first of three waves of a phone survey (conducted mostly on cell-phones) of registered voters and a coordinated on-going […] Read more »