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New insights from our recent poll: Despite challenges, Biden's reelection prospects look promising. Voter shifts in response to campaign strategies show potential, especially emphasizing middle-class empowerment & addressing key concerns like inflation.
We did focus groups with Republicans and Republican defectors and this year’s referendum on Trump threatens to reach deeper into the GOP than the 2018 blue wave. Read about the factions pulling off Trump and why:
@StanGreenberg
@ProjectLincoln
@RVAT2020
Intense disapproval of Trump in the battleground drove Democrats to vote in an election Trump made all about him. See our election poll for
@Women_Vote
Our new poll shows Democrats move into a 3-point lead in the generic ballot and Biden is up to 45% approval. Helping working people with the cost of living needs to be the first priority. Take a look.
@mattyglesias
@jeneps
3) Biden has emerged as a comfortable figure during deeply uncertain times. He represents experience and stability to many people in these groups. He looks plausible for many disaffected Republicans who are so exhausted with the divisiveness and chaos of Trump’s presidency.
2) Many Republicans believe Trump is failing as a leader, even if they are still determined to vote for him. More and more watch President Trump make politics “all about himself,” rather than leading on urgent issues or working for the whole country.
1) Republicans sound as exhausted as the rest of the country by the unfinished crises, the uncertainty and inability to believe anything, and the deep divisions and polarization. They want leaders who will rise above the infighting and show us how they will unite the country.
Our new poll shows Democrats move into a 3-point lead in the generic ballot and Biden is up to 45% approval. Helping working people with the cost of living needs to be the first priority. Take a look.
@ChrisCillizza
@Acosta
@PaulBegala
@andersoncooper
Greg Sargent nails this analysis, even with big wins in the head-to-head contests, "Biden and Warren are not quite as strong as they need to be among certain male subsets of the Democratic base: African American, Hispanic, and white millennial men."
@StanGreenberg
@VoterCenter
A new poll from a Dem pollster finds Trump is losing massively among women, but there's a caveat: He's doing a bit better than expected among male groups, even in the Dem base.
Interesting stuff on the two sides of the gender gap from
@StanGreenberg
:
Powerful new insights into anger, but feeling powerless and not fighting ARP, like Obamacare. Biden, the white president, not threatening, like first AA president. What impact? Great to work with Chris Parker!
@blackbruin
.
@JoeConason
for
@NationalMemo
, new
@DemCorps
@AFTunion
poll shows: “in House battleground districts, relatively few people believe the benefits were distributed fairly or that the tax cut benefit them”
Biden raised his margin by 8 points on which candidate will improve things for the middle class, and 5 points on getting health care costs down.
@StanGreenberg
Focus Group Slams Trump for No Empathy in Final Presidential Debate via
@intelligencer
NEW: Democrats are making a huge mistake when they focus only on listing their accomplishments or reacting to Republican attacks on crime, argues pollster
@StanGreenberg
.
To win, Democrats must address the top issues on voters’ minds – cost of living, wages, and corporate greed.
@SpicySultyDoggy
@PpollingNumbers
Sure. Here's a number from September. Sanders at +5 in a National Survey (rather than Battleground, so not 🍎to🍎).
We polled Buttigieg as our rotating 3rd candidate to test viability. Still lots of issues with name recognition and consolidating Dem base unlike Warren & Biden.
Our focus groups among white blue-collar workers shows women are fed up with Trump.
Trump's turn toward overt racism rests on a bet: that working-class white women will respond just as enthusiastically as blue-collar white men,
@RonBrownstein
writes:
(1) Our new October Battleground Survey shows Biden and Warren maintaining a lead over Trump in a head-to-head contest.
In this same series of 17 states (including FL, TX, OH, etc.) which Clinton lost by 1 point overall, Dem frontrunners win by 5 or 6.
We did focus groups with disabled voters in GA. They are 12.1% of the population, but are being overlooked in the runoff. Read our memo to see why/how the Senate campaigns should do more to engage this big bloc of voters.
@StanGreenberg
@Respect_Ability
Whatever happens on Tuesday, Democrats should start by listening to the voters again and show that they know how to make communities safe, while raising the power and well-being of all working people.
See the latest piece from our founder,
@StanGreenberg
, on how Democrats can avoid a midterm wipeout and save democracy by listening to working class voters.
Democrats have a working-class problem – and it’s not limited to white workers. The trajectory can be reversed, but there’s no room for error.
@StanGreenberg
breaks down the way forward.
No Trump bump! Growing number say wages NOT rising & aren’t keeping up with costs. This is the REAL economy that Trump & GOP ignore. New poll w/
@AFTunion
:
Like we've said before, Democrats can regain a lead on the generic ballot with an aggressive cost-of-living message. Thanks to
@TheProspect
for covering our survey.
Powerful new insights into anger, but feeling powerless and not fighting ARP, like Obamacare. Biden, the white president, not threatening, like first AA president. What impact? Great to work with Chris Parker!
@blackbruin
See this analysis, from our project with
@EquisLabs
and
@HITStrat
, on how Ds appeal to working class voters.
Top three priorities of white working class voters under 50? Worker protections, Child Tax Credit, and paid leave.
New polling shows that Biden should embrace a powerful middle class, blue collar message for success in the midterms. Read more about the latest numbers from
@StanGreenberg
:
This is a turning point in the 2020 campaign. Vice President Joe Biden leads Donald Trump in the battleground by a healthy margin of 4 points, and 5 in a two-way contest. This is a battleground that Donald Trump painfully won by 1.3 points in 2016.
When we put
@JoeBiden
and
@ewarren
head to head against Trump, they both win by about 2008 Obama margins against Trump. That's between 6-8 points that Trump needs to win back if he's to stand a chance in 2020.
What many news articles steadfastly report is that Donald Trump has +85% support from Republicans. We found this to be true. HOWEVER the enthusiasm gap between Democrats and Republicans is close to 20% . . . Dems are more excited to vote Trump out than Reps are to keep him in.
Biden at 9-point margin with Warren and Sanders remaining viable in head-to-head match-up at 7 and 5 points respectively. All right around the 8.6-point national margin in 2018.
@StanGreenberg
“In Macomb they are very sensitive to NAFTA, angry the political leaders sold them out, angry at senior management and CEOs of the companies,” --
@StanGreenberg
Our recent focus groups show that white working class around the country are fed up with Trump
I headed to Macomb County, Michigan, the heart of Reagan Democrat territory — and an area that helped put Trump in the White House. The economy there and across the state is still strong, but a lot of voters aren't feeling it.
NEW POLL: Dems need to reach working class voters NOW in this critical moment. A blue-collar message and delivering on our agenda can dramatically reverse the party's bleak fortunes in the '22 midterms.
@StanGreenberg
@EquisLabs
@HITStrat
for
@DemCorps
and
@AFTunion
(1/4)
A sweeping nationwide study of working class voters by
@HITStrat
,
@EquisResearch
, &
@DemCorps
and supported by
@AFTunion
shows Dems can gain by emphasizing popular economic policies that help families thrive and make big corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes
2/2 Hot take from
@HITStrat
CEO,
@t_woodbury1
: At a time where Black voters are growing impatient w/ what they perceive as a lack of progress on their priorities, Build Back Better addresses many of their economic concerns w/ an emphasis on equity that Biden & Dems promised.
Our new poll shows Democrats move into a 3-point lead in the generic ballot and Biden is up to 45% approval. Helping working people with the cost of living needs to be the first priority. Take a look.
@katrinanation
@JoeConason
@davidplouffe
“In the years after the financial crisis, few things have enraged people in our focus groups more than simply reading a positive jobs report." -
@StanGreenberg