Americans views of Obamacare tilt narrowly positive, according to a new CNN/ORC poll, marking the first time more have favored than opposed the law since its passage in 2010. The shift comes at the same time more than 8-in-10 say the law is likely to be repealed and replaced by […] Read more »
‘Repeal and Replace’: Words Still Hanging Over G.O.P.’s Health Care Strategy
In March 2010, on the day before President Obama was to sign the Affordable Care Act into law, a group of senior Republican aides huddled in Senator Mitch McConnell’s Capitol suite to try to come up with a catchy slogan to use against it. Many conservatives were simply advocating a […] Read more »
The End of the 114th Congress
The 114th Congress has finally ended. The most polarized Congress since the early 20th Century and one where almost all issues have been drawn into the first dimension [we will address dimensionality in a future post; the current period is unique in American history]. CONT. Voteview Read more »
CNN/ORC poll: A nation divided, and is it ever
After a bruising presidential election featuring the two least liked major-party candidates in recent history, more than 8-in-10 Americans say the country is more deeply divided on major issues this year than in the past several years, according to a new CNN/ORC poll. And more than half say they are […] Read more »
The Poll Numbers That Show Why Mitch McConnell Is Sounding the Alarm
… As the Donald Trump campaign implodes, Mr. McConnell could not care less about his party’s presidential nominee. The thing he cares about is making sure that Republicans focus on supporting his Senate colleagues Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Richard Burr (N.C.), Ron Johnson (Wis.), Rob Portman (Ind.), Pat Toomey (Pa.), and […] Read more »
Figures and factions
With all eyes fixed firmly on the fissures Donald Trump is creating in the GOP, the deep divisions among congressional Republicans are going largely unnoticed. It’s hard to overestimate the height of symbolic petard on which GOP lawmakers are hoisting themselves by failing to pass a budget. CONT. Mark Mellman […] Read more »