strategy and research | October 30, 2007
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The latest wave of Democracy Corps and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner research reveals a public that is angrier with the state of the country than we have ever witnessed. While this current period is one of voters’ contempt and frustration with the leadership of the country and our times, the biggest challenge and opportunity one year out from the 2008 election is whether the Democrats will become the voice of change In their latest strategy memo, Stan Greenberg, James Carville, and Al Quinlan take a comprehensive look at the new Democracy Corps national survey as well as focus groups conducted across the country during the past few months. This memo highlights how Republicans continue to make their situation worse and provides a framework for Democrats to articulate their critique and progressive vision.
If Americans have ever been angrier with the state of the country, we have not witnessed it; certainly not in 1992 when discontented voters brought the Republican Party down to an historic low, giving one in five of their votes to an unstable 3rd party candidate and putting Bill Clinton in the White House. The scale of today’s discontent is evident in the 70 percent who now say the country is off on the wrong track and in George Bush’s job approval and personal ratings, now at their lowest levels ever.
October 21–23, 2007; 994 Likely Voters
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