President Barack Obama continues to lead presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney by wide margins with Latinos, according to the latest NBC News-Wall Street Journal-Telemundo poll. Hispanics, the largest-growing segment of the U.S. population over the past decade, said they preferred Obama over Romney in the presidential race, 63 to 28 […] Read more »
Medicare Voucher Plan Remains Unpopular
Paul Ryan’s selection to the Republican ticket has put the issue of Medicare squarely on the 2012 campaign agenda. And the latest Pew Research Center survey continues to find the public is aware of a proposal to gradually shift Medicare to a system of vouchers and is, on balance, more […] Read more »
The GOP Counter-Argument On Medicare
By picking Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney is betting that the electorate’s view of entitlements has changed in their favor this year. … Adding credence to the GOP’s case: Polls conducted in 28 battleground districts for the National Republican Congressional Committee, obtained by National Journal, which suggest […] Read more »
Health Policy and the Presidential Candidates
… Despite the ongoing focus on the GOP’s opposition to the 2010 health care law, Kaiser’s August Health Tracking Poll suggests that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) isn’t Republicans’ top health care priority, with larger shares mentioning Medicare and the cost of health care and coverage as being important to […] Read more »
What Ryan Will Mean in House Races
… From House Majority PAC’s inception, it was clear that the Ryan budget could be the key to Democrats taking back the House majority. After all, the Romney-Ryan plan is a very clear statement on the principles of today’s Republican party: cut taxes for big corporations and wealthy, slash investments […] Read more »
Medicare Rises as Prime Election Issue
With Mitt Romney’s selection of Representative Paul D. Ryan as his running mate, Florida quickly emerged on Monday as a critical test of the nationwide Republican gamble that concerns over the mounting federal debt can blunt potent Democratic attacks on conservative proposals to revamp Medicare. … Andrew Kohut, the director […] Read more »