For the first time since last spring, Barack Obama’s steadily declining job rating has shown a modest improvement. And while his signature legislative accomplishment – the 2010 health care law – remains unpopular, Obama engenders much more public confidence on health care policy than do Republican leaders in Congress. CONT. […] Read more »
To Attract Millennials, GOP Must Dial Back the Social Conservatism
… My impression from various polls, focus groups, dozens of visits to college campuses, and conversations with young people over the last few years is that, unlike conservatives, this generation does not hate government. And unlike liberals, they don’t love government, either. Rather, this generation is highly skeptical of the […] Read more »
In 2014, the economy may matter more than Obamacare
… Democratic pollster Geoff Garin, who is running surveys in multiple contested Senate races, tells me his polling suggests that, whatever the very real dissatisfaction with the health law, the GOP push to repeal the law remains a minority position, and that the Dem message of “fix and improve” continues […] Read more »
Obama gets worst ratings of his presidency
The American public is unusually pessimistic about the direction of the country and increasingly fed up with Washington gridlock, a sour mood reflected in the worst disapproval ratings for President Barack Obama since he took office nearly five years ago. … Obama’s disapproval rating climbed to 53 percent – the […] Read more »
68% of Americans expect no budget deal by shutdown deadline
A Congressional budget deal expected this week might not be a grand bargain to solve the country’s long term fiscal woes, but it is largely what Americans want, according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll. The likely deal would ease the automatic spending cuts known as the sequester, with more defense […] Read more »
Obama and the politics of economic inequality
Weakened by problems with his health-care initiative, President Obama turned back to the economy last week to rebalance his presidency with a speech about income inequality. He said he would devote much of his remaining time in office to the issue, calling it the “defining challenge of our time.” … […] Read more »