The roll call of government incompetence rolls on: The Obamacare roll-out blunders. The Veterans Administration ignoring veterans then covering it up. The IRS targeting the Obama enemies list. Obamacare costing people more, providing them with less. The Bowe Bergdahl for five terrorists trade Syria-Libya-Ukraine-Iraq (or “Obama’s foreign policy” for short) And this litany has taken […]
Analysis
Despite the varying news climate over time, attitudes about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have been remarkably stable. National surveys from NBC/WSJ, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Washington Post-ABC News consistently show that voters have a net negative opinion about the health care law regardless of the scale used to measure attitudes (Good Idea/Bad Idea, Favorable/Unfavorable, […]
All of the punditry that says that the 2014 map is an issue for Democrats are right. The main reason they are right? Well, there are twelve states listed as 2014 lean or toss-up Senate races by Charlie Cook and his crack team at the Cook Political Report. In 2012, Mitt Romney averaged 53.3{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} of […]
Last week, my colleague Alex Bratty described the challenges of reaching younger voters. Alex wrote: “With the explosion of technology, more and more Americans – particularly in the younger (age) cohorts – are multitasking with devices and no longer devoting their attention to a single activity.” This is especially for important for Republicans to keep […]
American 15-year olds performed below average in mathematics on the recently-released Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)[i], which measures the extent to which students have acquired key knowledge and skills. Compared to students in 34 counties, the United States ranks between 23rd-29th overall (variation due to sampling and measurement error) and has a mean score […]
