In Washington, the burning debate is whether any of the legal challenges swirling around President Donald Trump will directly connect him to a criminal act. But the Democratic hopes of retaking the House, the Senate or both could pivot on whether the party can complete a very different connection: linking […] Read more »
Macomb and America’s new political moment
On the one-year anniversary of the Trump presidency, Democracy Corps traveled to Michigan to speak with the white working class Obama-Trump voters of Macomb County, the African American women of Detroit and the college educated women of suburban Southfield. Each, in their own way, had contributed to one of the […] Read more »
New message platform for 2018’s key battlegrounds: Report from phone survey & web-panel in the 12-state battleground
Democrats sit at the edge of a landslide repudiation of President Trump and Republicans – in the Congress and states where they govern – in November. This is according to the first of three waves of a phone survey (conducted mostly on cell-phones) of registered voters and a coordinated on-going […] Read more »
Americans Are Telling Both Parties — ‘Show Me the Money’
“It sounds strange to me to say this about the Republicans, but they’re helping with even the small things. They’re taking less out of my paycheck. I notice that.” So said Terry Hood, a young, African-American, Clinton voter in a recent Reuters interview about why millennials are moving away from […] Read more »
Impact of tax reforms on confidence neutralized by tariffs
Consumers remain confident that inflation and unemployment will remain low during the year ahead and wages will continue to slowly improve, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. The recent small variation in the Sentiment Index has been due to favorable impact from the tax reforms legislation, which […] Read more »
The Public, the Political System and American Democracy
At a time of growing stress on democracy around the world, Americans generally agree on democratic ideals and values that are important for the United States. But for the most part, they see the country falling well short in living up to these ideals, according to a new study of […] Read more »