With his attempts to woo Democrats unsuccessful, President Obama turned to Republicans this week to help rescue his Asia trade hopes. Obama has succeeded in the first step, with the House voting to support Trade Promotion Authority for the President by a vote of 218 to 208. Just 28 Democrats […] Read more »
Pollster Tells GOP Presidential Candidates To Recognize Voter Demographics
Steve Inskeep talks to GOP pollster Whit Ayres about the 2016 Republican presidential field. What will take for the GOP to win the race? Ayres is working with Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign. NPR News Read more »
‘President of what?’ (Or, measuring presidential ideology and its impact is harder than you think)
With the 2016 presidential race apparently under way, we will probably hear much more about ideology and presidential polarization soon. … I think this question is interesting for a bunch of reasons – as a measure of elite ideology and change over time (as John Gerring uses presidential campaign speeches […] Read more »
Obama’s Stalled Recovery
… Compared with earlier in Obama’s second term, more Americans now approve of his job performance. More also expect their personal financial situation to improve over the next year. But, even so, less than half of Americans express positive views on either question in the new survey, and neither shows […] Read more »
The Second Roundtable on the White Working Class
Welcome to the second white working class roundtable, a project of The Democratic Strategist in collaboration with the Washington Monthly. … The present White working class roundtable is organized around a provocative strategy paper by leading opinion analyst Stan Greenberg that is entitled “The Fight for Working People Begins with […] Read more »
DACA’s Three-Year Anniversary and its Legacy for 2016 Election
Today marks the third anniversary of President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) executive order, a critical moment in immigration policy history. DACA directed the Department of Homeland Security to temporarily defer action on young immigrants living in the United States who came to the U.S. at an […] Read more »