The flawed rollout of the Affordable Care Act has pushed President Obama to the lowest point of his presidency, with dwindling faith in his competence and in many of the personal attributes that have buoyed him in the past, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Opposition to the […] Read more »
Botched ACA Rollout Hammers Obama; Job Disapproval Reaches a Career High
Barack Obama has been hammered by the botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act, with disapproval of his job performance reaching a career high, opposition to the new healthcare law up sharply and evidence of potential fallout in the midterm elections a year off. The president’s job approval rating has […] Read more »
Not Their Cup of Tea: The Republican Establishment Versus the Tea Party
With the 2013 government shutdown and debt ceiling crisis now behind us, one conclusion seems inescapable — this was a disaster for the Republican Party. While both major parties received negative reviews from the American public for their performance in the crisis, it was the GOP that took by far […] Read more »
Examining the Wounds
In the wake of the government shutdown, two issues that could cause each party to hemorrhage support ahead of next year’s election have come to the fore: Obamacare for Democrats and the Tea Party for Republicans. What are the perceptions of each party as a result of consistent and unified […] Read more »
The Tea Party is losing support, even among Republicans
It was just three years ago that the Tea Party was flying high. Riding a wave of anti-establishment and anti-Obama anger, Tea Party candidates knocked off Democrats and Republicans alike. Three years later, the Tea Party’s light seems to have faded. One can look at the results of last week’s […] Read more »
Narrow tea party losses are wake-up call for Republicans
The Republican establishment went into last week’s off-year elections believing that the tea party insurrectionists who have ripped apart the GOP in recent years would suffer enough damage to force them into some kind of retreat. But no one thinks that happened. The expectation now is that the long-running internal […] Read more »