A Reason-Rupe survey of 2,000 Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 finds 66 percent of millennials believe government is inefficient and wasteful — a substantial increase since 2009, when just 42 percent of millennials said government was inefficient and wasteful. … The Reason-Rupe report finds this skepticism of […] Read more »
As Numbers Grow, Single Women Emerge as Political Powerhouse
The decline of marriage over the last generation has helped create an emerging voting bloc of unmarried women who are profoundly reshaping the American electorate to the advantage, recent elections suggest, of the Democratic Party. What is far from clear is whether Democrats will benefit in the midterm contests this […] Read more »
Women’s Economic Agenda: Powerful Impact on the Vote and Turnout in 2014
This is a turning point in the 2014 off-year elections when parties, candidates and leaders can recognize how central are unmarried women and the Rising American Electorate to the Democrats’ chances and how clear a path there is to get their votes and get them to vote. This is the […] Read more »
Most Women Like Hillary Clinton ‘Evolved’ On Gay Marriage Years Ago
If you were at a dinner party and the woman seated across from you was a wealthy, white, well-educated, liberal-to-moderate Democrat, it would be fairly safe for you to assume she supported gay marriage. But if that woman were Hillary Clinton, you’d have been wrong — at least until March […] Read more »
Memo to Establishment: Pay attention to this new report on the Republican Party
The defeat of Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor has prompted us to release this new and updated, full report of Democracy Corps’ Republican Party Project. The focus groups were conducted and reported last summer; the latest survey interviews were conducted in May and include results on immigration measures. The Republican […] Read more »
Gay marriage opponents don’t have much fight in them
… A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that 56 percent of Americans support the right of gay people to get married, and another 50 percent believe it’s a constitutional right. … The new poll also asked people how important the issue of gay marriage is to their vote for […] Read more »