By Mark Mellman - 04/09/13
Republicans love pointing to their governors, arguing they chart the party’s course to success on a national scale. “Republican governors are America’s reformers in

By Mark Mellman - 04/02/13
Here’s a puzzle: voters feel ideologically closer to the Republican Party than to the Democratic Party, yet see the GOP as more extreme.

Our recent survey with North Star

By Mark Mellman - 03/26/13
Last week we examined two alternative understandings of polarization. One emphasizes deep divisions and extreme opinions, while the other focuses on even divisions. Though

By Mark S. Mellman - 03/20/13
Polarization is a term frequently used but rarely defined. That failure accounts, in part, for the polarized headlines on the subject, some of which decry “increasing