To recover from their debacle in the midterm elections, Democrats have seized on two questionable propositions: They lost mainly because of President Barack Obama’s unpopularity, and the 2016 presidential election will be more favorable. … Turnout, exit polls and other data suggest another Achilles’ heel for Democrats: the lack of […] Read more »
Americans of All Stripes Agree: The System Is Stacked Against Them
At last, we have an important question upon which a majority of Americans—regardless of race, political persuasion or walk of life—agree. Are the country’s economic and political systems stacked against people like you? Yes, say 56% of Americans, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. CONT. Neil King […] Read more »
New Take on the New Economy
The state of the American economy looms over the public creating long-term pessimism about the state of the country, making the economy, wages and jobs the biggest factor in people’s vote in the last national election and the next. People are very aware of improvements in the macro economy and […] Read more »
Meet the voters who feel the economy is rigged, believe in global warming — and voted Republican
… The exit polls show a midterm electorate that skews more conservative than the one that reelected Obama two years ago. But it still shows solid majorities among those voters for some traditionally liberal policy stances. Fifty-seven percent of voters said illegal immigrants working in the United States should be […] Read more »
Relying on Old Models in a New Model Election
Earlier this year, I sat down with a smart strategist who has been actively involved in the independent expenditure side of the campaign world for the last couple cycles. When I asked this Democrat what he learned from 2012 that he was going to put into practice in the upcoming […] Read more »
America Out of Whack
… The trends in globalization, wealth concentration, corporate profits, income and employment together raise a crucial question, one I first explored in a column a couple of years ago: Is the “legitimacy of free market capitalism in America facing fundamental challenges?” This question is even more salient now. A CNBC/Burson-Marsteller […] Read more »