Last week, I surveyed the damage done to the Republican brand by the recent shutdown. Some faulted “the Tea Party” for the wreckage, though, as I noted earlier, not one Republican of any stripe was willing to put his or her name on the line to end it. So, in truth, […] Read more »
The Battleground: The Shutdown and Looking Ahead to 2014
Celinda Lake, Daniel Gotoff & Alex Dunn, Lake Research Partners Two weeks after the latest Republican‐led attempt to sabotage this President came to an ignominious end, the dust has settled and we are left to assess the damage. While the harm done to the Republican brand is undeniable and the […] Read more »
Battleground 2014: Both Parties Are Down, but the GOP is Not Out
Ed Goeas & Brian Nienaber, The Tarrance Group This latest edition of the George Washington University Battleground Poll finds a national political environment that has gone from bad to worse. Nearly three-fourths of the American electorate (73%) believes the country is on the wrong track, with sixty-two percent (62%) holding […] Read more »
GOP Deeply Divided Over Climate Change
Two-thirds of Americans (67%) say there is solid evidence that the earth has been getting warmer over the last few decades, a figure that has changed little in the past few years. While partisan differences over climate change remain substantial, Republicans face greater internal divisions over this issue than do […] Read more »
Growing Number of Republicans Dislike GOP
October was clearly a cruel month for both President Barack Obama and the Republicans, both of whom saw their images slump to new lows in Wall Street Journal/NBC News polling. But hidden within the data is a more disturbing reality for the Republican Party. Put simply, Democrats are largely content […] Read more »
The Cost of Ted Cruz’s Rebellion
Those in the political world with nothing better to do Friday night were transfixed on C-SPAN or Twitter, following along with Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) speech in Des Moines to the Republican Party of Iowa. Among those were members of the hard-to-define “Republican Establishment.” … To the establishment, Cruz is […] Read more »