… According to a just-released Fox News national poll, most voters don’t think the country’s system of government was designed for the president to act unilaterally, and a majority disapproves of Obama bypassing Congress. CONT. Dana Blanton, Fox News Read more »
Large Majorities of Republicans and Democrats Agree on How to Reform Social Security
When a representative sample of Americans were given information about the projected insolvency of Social Security and presented options for dealing with it, overwhelming majorities—including three in four Republicans and Democrats—favored taking steps that would eliminate most of the Social Security shortfall and a modest majority favored steps that would […] Read more »
Majority of Americans want government to reduce income gap
A majority of Americans surveyed believe the government should work to reduce the income gap between rich and the poor, according to a new national poll. A CNN/ORC International survey released Wednesday indicates more than six in 10 Americans strongly or somewhat agree that the government should work to narrow […] Read more »
Why don’t Americans trust the government? Because the other party is in power.
… We offer a way to make sense of this discrepancy between our representatives and those they represent. We argue that polarization does exist in the electorate, but also contend that it is not ideological in nature. That polarization in the electorate is not ideological makes sense because 60 years […] Read more »
Executive order = political nothing burger
Fine, Congress. You don’t want to play ball? I’ll do it without you. That was the core of President Obama’s State of the Union message Tuesday night when he announced plans to wield his executive power with a new urgency. Part of it will involve using executive orders to bypass […] Read more »
Messages that Appeal to the Center of the Electorate in 2014
Since President Obama took office, Resurgent Republic has closely followed the opinions and intensity of Independent voters. The center of the electorate first stepped away from President Obama during the summer of 2009 due to concerns over the amount of federal spending in the stimulus and budget. Since then the […] Read more »