Veteran Dem pollster Stan Greenberg has long taken the lead in advocating that embattled Dems hew to a “keep and fix” strategy in response to GOP attacks on Obamacare. In an interview with me this morning, he said he saw nothing in the results out of Florida’s 13th district — […] Read more »
Americans Split on Obama as 69% Back Minimum Wage Hike
President Barack Obama is rebounding from record-low approval ratings as he remedies the botched rollout of his health-care website and moves past the budget standoffs of the last several years. Less than eight months before the November midterm elections, Americans are evenly split, with 48 percent approving of Obama’s job […] Read more »
Economy hijacking the agenda
… A range of issues, from education and healthcare to crime and the environment, once competed to be a top priority. But now jobs and the economy have become the black hole that draws all light to itself, leaving almost no luminescence for the other second- and third-tier concerns. The […] Read more »
Economic Confidence Index Down to -20
Americans’ economic confidence continued to drop last week, with Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index edging down to -20, its lowest weekly score since mid-December. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
The Leaderless Doctrine
We’re in the middle of a remarkable shift in how Americans see the world and their own country’s role in the world. For the first time in half a century, a majority of Americans say that the U.S. should be less engaged in world affairs, according to the most recent […] Read more »
Consumer Comfort Improves on More Optimism About U.S. Economy
Consumer confidence improved for a fourth straight week as Americans’ views of the economy reached an almost seven-month high. The Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index (COMFCOMF) was minus 28.5 in the period that ended March 2, the strongest reading since the first week of January and up from minus 28.6 the […] Read more »