Charlie Cook thinks President Barack Obama and the Democrats ruined their prospects by failing to focus on the economy in 2009-2010…. There was a Twitter fight today over that, so I’m going to hit it Twitter-style: CONT. Jonathan Bernstein, Bloomberg View Read more »
Assessing Americans’ Familiarity With Health Insurance Terms and Concepts
With the approaching launch of the second open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) health insurance exchanges and at a time when open enrollment is also happening for many job-based plans, the Kaiser Family Foundation conducted a nationally representative survey of 1,292 U.S. adults to shed light on […] Read more »
The Demise of the White Democratic Voter
… There is an ongoing debate among politicians, political scientists and partisans of both parties over the dismal support of Democratic candidates among whites. Does it result from ideological differences, racial animosity or a perception among many whites that they are excluded from a coalition of minorities, the poor, single […] Read more »
Americans Satisfied With How Health System Works for Them
Over the last seven and a half months, two-thirds of Americans, on average, have been satisfied with how the healthcare system is working for them. Less than a week before the health insurance exchanges reopen, these results show that Americans who have health insurance (70%) are almost twice as likely […] Read more »
Support for policies that promote families’ economic security
Following an election in which voters secured significant policy gains for working families through state and city ballot measures, poll results released today confirm that, by an overwhelming majority, voters nationwide support policies that promote their economic security such as paid sick days and paid family and medical leave. CONT. […] Read more »
States Benefiting Most From Obama’s Health Law Elected Republicans
In places where the uninsured rate plummeted this year, Republicans still scored big electoral victories. Arkansas, Kentucky and West Virginia — states that saw substantial drops in the proportion of their residents without insurance — all elected Republican Senate candidates who oppose the Affordable Care Act. Control of the West […] Read more »