The latest national survey by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for Democracy Corps and Public Campaign Action Fund shows that voters care about money in politics and are prepared to vote for candidates who prioritize reform.[1] All voters, and especially swing voters, support reforms that would limit big money, encourage small donors, and close the revolving door [...]
Last month, virtually all House Republicans voted for Paul Ryan’s latest budget plan (“The Path to Prosperity”)—and according to the latest battleground survey by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for Democracy Corps and Women’s Voices. Women Vote Action Fund, they will pay the price in November.[1] In this survey of 1000 likely voters in the 56 most [...]
In 2010, Republicans won the women’s vote for the first time in 30 years. Republicans rewarded this support with a raft of legislation hostile to the interests of women, beginning with one of their first pieces of legislation, H.R. 3, which attempted to redefine rape to deny emergency contraceptive services to crime victims. For much [...]
The President and the Democrats are indeed doing very well at the outset of 2012, and the Republicans are doing pitifully. They are not unrelated. Republicans in Congress and in the primary battles are driving independents into the Democrats’ camp and consolidating and energizing parts of the progressive base. There is improved optimism about the [...]
The latest national survey by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for Democracy Corps and Women’s Voices. Women Vote Action Fund shows a Republican Party in deepening trouble and emerging underlying trends that may have shifted the balance for 2012.[1] Barring sudden economic shocks, there is accumulating evidence that we have entered a new phase in the political [...]
Voters across the political spectrum reacted very favorably to President Obama’s focus on creating an economy “built to last” in his 2012 State of the Union address, according to dial tests and follow-up discussions with 50 swing voters in Denver, Colorado. The recent ABC/Washington Post poll also underscored the positive response among those who viewed [...]
Dial testing and follow-up focus groups with 50 swing voters in Denver, Colorado show that President Obama’s populist defense of the middle class and their priorities in his State of the Union scored with voters.[1] The President generated strong responses on energy, education and foreign policy, but most important, he made impressive gains on a [...]
POLLSTERS STAN GREENBERG AND ANDREW BAUMANN TO HOST LATE-NIGHT MEDIA CALL TO DISCUSS RESULTS OF DIAL TESTING FOCUS GROUPS Tonight, January 24, 2012, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, on behalf of Democracy Corps and GQR Digital, will hold dial testing focus groups during President Obama’s State of the Union Address. The dial groups will gauge reactions of [...]
The 2012 election will be the most expensive in history, fueled by unlimited spending by super PACs and other political groups, as well as candidates’ furious fundraising to keep up. On the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, it’s clear that the American people are tired of a political system that sidelines [...]
This first Democracy Corps national survey of the New Year shows Republicans at risk at every level.[1] On the ballot, Republicans are in serious danger. For the first time since the 2010 election, Democrats have taken the lead in the congressional vote and this poll shows that third-party defections on the Presidential ballot could prove [...]