With today being the final day of open enrollment in Obamacare, we thought it was important to take another look at our three-part health care blog series posted earlier this month. The topics covered include: Looking at how health care will impact the 2014 mid-term elections; Understanding voter attitudes about the ACA beyond just overall […]
Analysis
The most stunning aspect of the disastrous rollout and implementation of Obamacare is the sheer number of problems the law presents for Democrats. From “if you like your plan, you can keep it,” which Politifact deemed the Lie of the Year, to patients being dropped by doctors they know and trust, a new politically damaging […]
Recent survey results have shown that President Obama’s bungling (the economy, Obamacare, it doesn’t matter) has started to change the partisan architecture. A couple of quick points from the most recent NBC News/Wall St. Journal* data: ✓ President Obama’s job approval has settled in the low-to-mid 40s; the latest NBC News/WSJ survey pegs it at […]
These have been difficult weeks for the president, but it needs to be understood how potentially consequential these weeks could be on the arc of his presidency. Our latest slide deck looks at key data for President Bush before and after Hurricane Katrina and comparable data for President Obama before and after the roll-out of […]
Two polls we conducted this weekend already shows some signs of life for the Republican party. This is not to minimize the challenges facing the GOP. Those challenges are significant. But perhaps those who wish to bury Republicans now in anticipation of a poor performance in the November 2014 elections are suffering from premature miscalculation. […]
