Project New America is releasing the results from a new Colorado survey among Presidential Surge Voters. … This poll reveals a hidden group of the electorate that many other public polls are not capturing because they are heavy cell phone users and didn’t vote in 2010. They could swing the […] Read more »
Hate your candidates this year? You’re not alone
What do you get when you combine a dysfunctional Congress, a divided American public, and several hundred million dollars worth of negative ads? A whole bunch of unpopular candidates, that’s what. In top-tier races around the country, voters are struggling to decide between politicians that they fell lukewarm about at […] Read more »
The State-by-State Revival of the Right
While politics in Washington remain gridlocked, the conservative revolution has been thriving outside the Capitol beltway. Republicans in states across the Midwest and the South are determined to eviscerate liberal policies and to entrench the political power of the right. … Not only are Republicans today in charge of more […] Read more »
In heated midterm contests, GOP candidates explore a move to the middle
… Buoyed by President Obama’s deep unpopularity, the Republican Party is positioned to reclaim a national governing majority for the first time in nearly a decade by winning control of the Senate. But Republicans have little margin for error, and most key races remain tossups. That’s in part because many […] Read more »
What Is a Wave in the Senate?
For several months, we’ve held steady on our range of expected gains for Republicans in the Senate: a net of four to eight seats. With Labor Day in the rearview mirror and with less than 55 days to go until the midterms, we’re giving Republicans a slight bump: Our new […] Read more »
Governors, Like Obama, Getting No Bump From Better Economy
Using the economy as a frame, 2014 should be a good year for incumbents. Unemployment is down, GDP is up and the Great Recession is slipping further into the rearview mirror. And yet this year is looking like a tough one to seek re-election, even for those outside of Washington. […] Read more »