Public Opinion Strategies

Senior White House political adviser David Axelrod recently made the case that one of three ways the Democrats could improve their position in the 2010 mid-terms would be for job growth and an economic recovery.   Obviously an economy that is creating jobs rather than simply shedding them is more helpful to the party in power, [...] Read more

(This post was written by Glen Bolger and Jim Hobart.)
As the economy remains in turmoil, evidenced by a weakening dollar and unemployment continuing to move toward 10%, the question many Republicans ask is when blame for the poor economy will be shifted from the Bush administration to the Obama administration. However, this is the wrong [...] Read more

The semi-secret Democracy Corps poll that I’ve been blogging about all week (here, here, and here) is chock-full of heavenly data.  It really is interesting — and my focus spurred our friends on the left to write a response. 
The last analysis I’m going to write on it focuses on their economic message testing for the two [...] Read more

This is not a polling analysis.  Instead, I thought it important to share two key strategic message points on the blog.
The first is, there has been a move afoot among Democrats and some in the media to claim that the economy has turned around.  And, of course, they point to select stats to make their [...] Read more