The public polling community is letting us down with generally sketchy work on the sequester. We are going down a dark path we have never traveled before, and none of the surveillance I have seen prepares us for the event and public reactions. With some exceptions, the public polls seem […] Read more »
Republicans at odds with the public
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) recently opined that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) would be unable to keep his job if he compromised with the president and the Democrats on sequestration. The senator knows a great deal more about internal GOP dynamics than I do, but his assessment carries with it a […] Read more »
Public wary about sequester cuts, but Obama in stronger political position than GOP
With automatic, across-the-board spending cuts set to begin Friday, majorities of Americans believe they aren’t a good idea and say the contentious budget negotiations make them less confident about the U.S. economy, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Despite those findings, a majority still supports Congress moving […] Read more »
Pain From Sequester Could Make Voters Angry At Both Parties
Now that budget sequestration seems inevitable, the remaining question is, who gets hurt? … We live in a period when politicians tend to see the world in a binary fashion; everything is either a one or a zero, and there is a clear winner and a clear loser in every […] Read more »
The Real Story on Public Support for Government Spending
… The Policy Mood measure, maintained by Jim Stimson, is calculated by aggregating hundreds of survey questions over time, such as from public polls and the General Social Survey. Policy mood captures shifts in the the popularity of increased government action over time. … One of the key aspects of […] Read more »
Less Spending and More Government: the Conflicting Views of Voters Under 40
In the first installment of our Beyond the Ballot research series, Resurgent Republic sponsored four focus groups among voters under 40 years old. Nearly all the voters in our groups are self-described moderates and support candidates from both political parties in elections. In the presidential contest last November, the men […] Read more »