Two policy questions roiling Washington show that partisan bases are not always as united as their elected party leaders in D.C. would like them to be. Crosstabs from two questions on the latest NBC/WSJ survey underscore that. In both cases, Republicans and Democrats do not agree with each other, but neither base is as strongly […]
In December, the CDC released its most recent report on cell phone usage in the US. The report showed that 44{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} of American households are currently cell phone-only, meaning that there is not a landline phone in the household. This is a three-point increase over just six months ago, when cell phone-only households made up […]
You won nothing in November. The 2014 election had no consequences for my Administration whatsoever. You may have beaten my party and members of my team in the mid-term elections, but you’ve never beaten me. And, now you never will. All this talk about compromise and working together means you do what I want, because […]
In tonight’s State of the Union, the New York Times reports that President Obama will, “use (the address) to effectively declare victory over the economic hard times that dominated his first six years in office.” The problem for the President is that while polling does indicate improving public opinion about the state of the economy, […]
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 […]
The Christmas Countdown app my two children installed on my iPhone is about to run its course of daily screeching out “Jingle Bells” (often just as I have joined a conference call), and literally ticking down the seconds until the fat man sings – er, flies out of sight. Of course, my kids don’t look […]
The day after Democrats got crushed in their second mid-term election in a row, President Obama said in a press conference he got the message. “To everyone who voted, I want you to know that I hear you. To the two-thirds of voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday, I hear you, […]
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 […]
