On Race, Class, and Gender, Obama's Polling Looks a Lot Like 2008
The president is holding his advantage with the groups that boosted him to victory four years ago, but he can't rest easy. More »
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The president is holding his advantage with the groups that boosted him to victory four years ago, but he can't rest easy. More »
By stirring up questions like contraception, he changed the course of the race and may have hobbled Mitt Romney. More »
The nearly 50 million Americans without insurance drive up health costs. But GOP alternatives offer no real plan to solve the problem. More »
A new poll finds women optimistic about their opportunities and comfortable with their roles. Say good-bye to the "mommy wars." More »
The president is likely to struggle with white voters who didn't go to college. Luckily for him, everyone else is optimistic about the nation. More »
President Obama's ratings among working-class whites have improved significantly since the Republican primaries and caucuses began. More »
Conventional wisdom says the primary is pushing the candidates to the right, but on some issues they're more hawkish than the base. More »
It's widely expected that the Pennsylvanian can connect with working-class white voters, but Michigan will test the theory -- and his viability. More »
If the president maintains his support in key demographics, Mitt Romney would be in serious trouble in a head-to-head matchup. More »
The safety net, the entitlement state, and the true beneficiaries of the "poison" of dependency. More »
Though he's still the frontrunner, low turnout in three conservative states, along with slipping independent support, are worrying trends for Romney. More »
Defending his remarks about the poor, he said he wants to "fix" low-income assistance programs, but his proposals would actually cut them way back. More »
For Gingrich, finding an argument that can restore the populist coalition he assembled in South Carolina will become much more urgent after Florida. More »
Two new polls suggest he's consolidating his vote -- and underscore the high stakes for Newt Gingrich in Thursday's debate. More »
Jim Crow and Strom Thurmond are long gone, but race remains central to tax and spending issues -- perhaps an omen for national politics. More »
His strong support among two big Republican demographics that previously resisted him shows how hard it will be to slow down the presumptive nominee. More »
The economic downturn exacerbated the deep political and cultural divides in our 50-50 nation. Here's what three years of polling data says about where American stands today. More »
If the surging frontrunner can win both Iowa and New Hampshire, the rest of the GOP field might as well pack up and go home. More »
Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney's brutal offensives against one another in the last two weeks are sure to reappear in Democratic general-election attack ads. More »
Pulling the lever, pulling the plug: Voters are ready to "throw the bums out." More »
