… My impression from various polls, focus groups, dozens of visits to college campuses, and conversations with young people over the last few years is that, unlike conservatives, this generation does not hate government. And unlike liberals, they don’t love government, either. Rather, this generation is highly skeptical of the […] Read more »
68% of Americans expect no budget deal by shutdown deadline
A Congressional budget deal expected this week might not be a grand bargain to solve the country’s long term fiscal woes, but it is largely what Americans want, according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll. The likely deal would ease the automatic spending cuts known as the sequester, with more defense […] Read more »
Middle America assails Washington machine as indifferent and ‘above us’
America has met the enemy, and it is Washington. That was the message from a focus group of 11 Cincinnati-area voters, who issued a scathing and impassioned indictment Wednesday of Washington, D.C., and everyone in it — from lawmakers to the president and, most strikingly, a political system that makes […] Read more »
Can states’ rights work for liberals?
… We have always had policy differences among the states. That’s what federalism means. What’s happening here is that the divergence between red America and blue America is growing. Progressive states and conservative states are moving farther and farther apart in their policies, just as they are in their politics. […] Read more »
Hey, Pollsters!
Three topics I’d love to know more about: 1. How many people know that Healthcare.gov is Obamacare? Especially the people who actually use it. Also, the associated questions: how many know that it’s the Affordable Care Act, and how many know that there’s more to the ACA than the exchanges? […] Read more »
What Medicare can teach us about the future of Obamacare
Congressional Republicans have consistently voiced their determination to delay implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). … Conservative opposition to the ACA is partly driven by fears that, once fully implemented, the program will prove popular and thus be difficult to roll back. My new research suggests […] Read more »