President Obama has yet another opportunity to lead, unite Americans, and work together with Republicans in Congress to achieve common goals. He also has the opportunity to reject bipartisanship and pursue policies considered priorities only by his own party. The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds that majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents agree […]
Analysis
C.S. Lewis once said, “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” The presidential aspirants in the Democrat Party seem to have taken that as a challenge. Last week, 68-year-old former Senator Jim Webb joined the field of potential Democrat Presidential candidates by announcing the formation of a […]
The combined Democratic campaign placed a large portion of its 2014 success on the premise that they would use a massive investment in technology, grassroots strategy, and boots on the ground to reprise the Obama urban coalition of minorities and younger voters. It failed miserably, and Democrats around the nation paid the price. Why? Because […]
There was a gender gap in 2014, but not the one Democrats were banking on. Public Opinion Strategies’ election night survey showed a mere six point differential on the congressional generic ballot among women – 46{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} GOP/52{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} Democrat. And Republicans won white women by an eight point margin (53{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} GOP/45{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} Dem). The real story is […]
Despite attempts by Democratic Senate strategists to make “the map is the map” the new “it is what it is,” the Senate map was not the biggest problem facing Democrats this year. A bad Senate map does not account for Republican governors in the Democratic strongholds of Illinois Maryland and Massachusetts or a seven point […]
