Memo to Congress: With deficit deal done, time for that pivot to jobs
08/01/2011
I'll forgive you in advance for being skeptical of what I'm about to tell you. But there's finally a glimmer of evidence that officials are beginning to talk about that…
Eclipsed
05/27/2011
Why the white working class is the most alienated and pessimistic group in American society. Almost no one noticed, but around George W. Bush's reelection in 2004, the nation crossed…
American Dream Lives On Despite Rising Financial Insecurity: Survey
05/27/2011
Americans, despite the uncertainty of their own personal finances, continue to have faith in that well-worn concept of an American dream. In a recent report conducted by The Mellman Group…
Mellman: How Dems Can Shred GOP Deficit, Medicare Plans
05/24/2011
Pollster Mark Mellman has a brilliant piece of opinion data analysis, "Winning the Medicare Fight," up at The Hill. Mellman's post is of interest, not only for those concerned with…
Poll: Voters Give Nod to WA’s Colville Forest Collaboration
04/07/2011
COLVILLE, Wash. - Can loggers, recreational land users and conservationists see eye-to-eye on management of the same national forest? In northeastern Washington, they've been trying. For almost a decade, an…
How Harry Reid’s pollster got it right
11/07/2010
J. Patrick Coolican, Las Vegas SunAll the late public polling in the race between Sen. Harry Reid and his Republican challenger Sharron Angle turned out to be wrong, including the…
Barbara Boxer overcame several hurdles to defeat Carly Fiorina in Senate race
11/04/2010
Despite perennially weak approval ratings, a pro-Republican political climate and her 'toughest and roughest campaign,' she beat the former Hewlett-Packard CEO 52% to 42.6%. If ever there was an election…
Rebuilding the Democratic brand with jobs
08/18/2010
Not to be difficult, mind you, but what is it that the Democrats see themselves running on in the next 75 days -- or, for that matter, the next two…
Netroots Nation: Channeling the Power of Jobs, Populism and the Angry Voter
07/24/2010
Where does populist anger over the economy go-left or right? It's a question Working America has focused a great deal on as it relates to both policy and politics, in…
Polls Lead Dems to Focus on Manufacturing Push
07/21/2010
The catalyst for the manufacturing agenda is a survey by Democratic pollster Mark Mellman and Republican pollster Whit Ayres. Not surprisingly, the poll shows that Americans want a more robust…