… Although poll data does not specifically link Romney’s vacillation on immigration to the lack of enthusiasm for his bid, it is virtually certain that a reluctance to take a stand is not an effective tool for building voter intensity. Romney’s stance – or lack thereof – speaks in part […] Read more »
Bain Attack Takes Toll on Romney
… The presidential race has been essentially tied for an uncommon length of time. No dynamic — not glum economic news, not a special election loss, not a series of off-message surrogates — has been able to shake that. But over the last two months, even as national polls have […] Read more »
Can Obama Sell the Nation on Health Care Reform?
… Yet polls consistently show that more Americans oppose the Affordable Care Act than support it—not because they’ve evaluated and rejected it but because they don’t understand it. There are plenty of reasons for that confusion; the law is complicated, opponents have misrepresented it, and the news media have focused […] Read more »
High Court Gives Obama and Romney Some Explaining to Do
Shortly after the Supreme Court’s historic health-care decision, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney appeared before the cameras to offer their spin. Neither took questions. For weeks, both men methodically calibrated their response to what was the most eagerly anticipated pre-election high court decision ever. The ruling settles the law, not […] Read more »
Stung by Recession, Many Young Voters Looking Past Obama
… In the four years since President Obama swept into office in large part with the support of a vast army of youth, a new corps of young men and women have come of voting age with views shaped largely by the recession. And unlike their counterparts in the Millennial […] Read more »
Gains in congressional approval could undermine Obama strategy
The congressional approval rating has steadily ticked up over the past six months and Republican leaders hope this will undermine President Obama’s plans to run against the unpopular institution. Obama’s strategy since the end of last summer has been to paint Congress as unreasonably obstructionist and blocking practical legislation to […] Read more »