Voters Don't Like Either Party
WASHINGTON -- For politicians of both parties, the hits keep coming. Two new polls this week provide more evidence that, heading into the 2012 electi...
WASHINGTON -- For politicians of both parties, the hits keep coming. Two new polls this week provide more evidence that, heading into the 2012 electi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Howard | Posted 11.23.2011
WASHINGTON -- A poll by a Democratic firm reveals the precarious situation facing incumbents of both parties heading into the 2012 election. The po...
HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Blumenthal | Posted 08.03.2011
WASHINGTON -- A prominent Democratic pollster has a blunt warning for the Party: Despite a turn in economic growth and job creation statistics, Americ...
Robert Creamer | Posted 05.28.2011
Those who wring their hands about the long-term budget deficit act as if the deficit problem is intractable, and conveniently forget that only a decade ago President Clinton left office with federal surpluses as far as the eye could see.
HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- A new poll of 50 competitive congressional districts by the Democrat-sponsored polling organization Democracy Corps finds "the new Repub...
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011
A new poll on jobs and the economy has a clear message for the president and his party: Stand up for jobs, and protect Social Security and Medicare. The results couldn't be clearer. But is the White House even listening?
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011
Voters know that punishing currency manipulators, dealing boldly with violations of international trade rules, and ending tax incentives to outsource jobs would help reverse the decline of American manufacturing.
Sheri and Allan Rivlin | Posted 05.25.2011
The only thing voters should care about is who has the best plan to move forward, and our greatest advantage is we have a plan and the Republicans don't.
Lori Wallach | Posted 05.25.2011
Recent polling shows that anger about U.S. job-offshoring and "free trade" has become a powerful election issue nationwide - across stunningly diverse...
Spencer Critchley | Posted 05.25.2011
Too many Democratic candidates are unable to make clear, simple statements of their heartfelt convictions -- it's not that they don't have them, they just can't say them.
Taylor Marsh | Posted 05.25.2011
After 9/11 and Iraq, Dems are falling back in national security against Republicans again, which considering the successes of the Obama administration in Pakistan and against al Qaeda, is maddening.
Tom Sullivan | Posted 05.25.2011
Conservatives -- or "Real Americans" -- are easily threatened, and view those outside their tribe with suspicion. Those outside their tribe don't deserve a lot: especially not the right to vote.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
When Stan Greenberg and fellow Democratic researchers launched a study of the conservative Republican world's reaction to President Obama, he figured ...
Jonathan Weiler | Posted 05.25.2011
The study is certainly worth reading in full, but I wanted to address Democracy Corps' dismissal of a "racial element" in this hard-core right wing opposition to Obama.
Posted 05.25.2011
Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg and strategist James Carville have set their sights on the Republican base, exploring the conspiracy theories fueli...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
No, we are not doing any live-blogging tonight, though I might post a thought or two via Twitter. Also, I will update this post later tonight with lin...
Frankie Sturm | Posted 05.25.2011
Political gains that are heavily dependent on a single personality are easy to reverse. Bush was the most popular man for a year after 9/11. When his stock fell, so did that of the his Party.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Longtime Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg is not normally in the business of advising Republicans. So when he willingly offers a diagnosis of the GO...
Margie Omero | Posted 05.25.2011
Bad news continues for Republicans. Not only is the national party identification gap widening, as I posted a few weeks ago, support for progres...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
I interviewed Masahiko Aida, director of analytics for Democratic polling firm Greenberg, Quinlan Rosner (which conducts surveys for Democracy Corps) ...
Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011
I'd say there's about a zero percent chance that Stan Greenberg released this without the blessing of his good friend David Axelrod.
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
Here is another follow-up on Monday's back-and-forth between Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg on behalf of the organization known as Democracy Corps...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
A quick follow-up on yesterday's back-and-forth between Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg on behalf of the organization known as Democracy Corps and ...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
Well, that didn't take long. Last week, we told you about a new Republican polling alliance, Resurgent Republic, modeled explicitly on the Democratic ...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
A DC reporter I know emailed recently to ask, "what do pollsters do in non-election times, like now?" The answer to his question depends on the sort o...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Howard | Posted 11.28.2011