strategy and research | November 14, 2007
For the first time in decades, national security has become a potentially winning issue for Democrats according to the latest Democracy Corps survey. In fact, Democrats have now reached parity with the Republicans on the most important measures of national security, and lead the Republicans on other crucial aspects of who the public trusts most in foreign policy. In their new Democracy Corps strategy memo, Jeremy Rosner, Stan Greenberg, and James Carville discuss the changed political environment around national security and how Democrats can take advantage of their increasing gains on the issue.
Democrats now have a generational opportunity: for the first time in decades, national security has become a potentially winning issue for them, according to a new Democracy Corps survey. With the public angry about the mismanagement of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, worried about America’s declining standing abroad, and concerned about a host of other unaddressed security concerns, from weapons proliferation to global warming, Democrats have now reached parity with the Republicans on the most important measures of national security, and lead the Republicans on other crucial aspects of who the public trusts most in foreign policy.
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