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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Jul 30, 20185 min read
Talking Economics in Iowa
President Trump’s strategy to win the 2018 midterm election is taking shape; he is planning to travel all across the battleground states...
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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Jul 23, 20188 min read
How to Debate the Trump Economy: Go Local
There is a right way and a wrong way for Democrats to debate the economy in the 2018 election. Both ways are true, but one is vastly more...
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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Jan 4, 20186 min read
More Jobs, Better Paying Jobs, More Growth, Opportunity, and Economic Security
Economic anxiety has been the driving force in every election since the global economic downturn of 2008 and it will again be the driving...
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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Jul 13, 20177 min read
Robots taking our jobs? A better answer
Artificial intelligence, workplace automation, and robots are causing concerns about the future for voters and Democratic candidates have...
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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Jun 23, 20172 min read
Democrats' Dreams of Taking the House Could be Dashed by this Terrible Number: Minus-7
Among all the “Breaking News” banners on cable television in the age of Trump, you could be forgiven for missing this one new polling...
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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
May 3, 20174 min read
The “First Midterm Curse” is the New “Blue Wall”
Our point is: there is nothing promised by historical trends. We have to earn a win in 2018, and if there is going to be a wave, we have...
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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Mar 13, 20171 min read
The American Prospect Q&A with Zen Politics
Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin paid a visit to the American Prospect for an interview with Eliza Newlin Carney joined by Matt Leistra. ...
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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Jan 26, 20175 min read
How to Fix the Democratic Economic Message Part 4: Five Potential Messages
Recapping Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this series: If Democrats hope to regain their lost advantage in public trust to get the economy...
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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Jan 15, 20174 min read
How to Fix the Democratic Economic Message Part 3: The Listerine Test
If Democrats hope to regain their lost advantage in public trust to get the economy moving and create good jobs, then we need clear and...
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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Jan 10, 20177 min read
Repeal and Regret: What 25 Years of Health Care Reform Polling Tells Us About Obamacare Reform in 2
It’s Groundhog Day all over again. Yet another president is preparing to tackle America’s most frustrating domestic public policy...
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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Jan 2, 20173 min read
How to Fix the Democratic Economic Message Part 2: Progressives Need Both Offense and Defense
These days our in-boxes are filled with pleas to “Join the Resistance.” Progressive advocacy groups are promising to fight Donald...
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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Dec 30, 20164 min read
How to Fix the Democrats’ Economic Message Part 1 – What Happened in 2016
Democrats have a very strong substantive case to make to voters on the economy, and a long list of specific popular policies. The...
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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Nov 10, 20165 min read
2016 and the Disruption of American Politics
The election of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States caught much of America by surprise, but it was the continuation of a...
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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Jun 19, 20164 min read
The Missing Democratic Economic Message
At every time during the 2016 campaign, not just during the GOP convention, Donald Trump is taking up the vast share of everyone’s...
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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Jan 11, 20164 min read
2016 Could Really Bring President Trump
We want to be clear, we neither support nor are we predicting that Donald Trump will win the Republican nomination and then be elected...
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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Nov 3, 20147 min read
Democrats Often Leave Out the Economic Topic Sentence: “We Need to Get More Money in the Hands of Ha
On Meet the Press last Sunday, Chuck Todd asked Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) why he believes Democrats will do better than expectations...
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