Thomas E. Mann Quotes
While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.
Mann, Thomas E. "Assessing the 2002 Midterm Elections." Brookings Institution, 2002.
Simon Cameron had switched parties from Democrat to Republican. Lincoln said of him:
This was a new political phenomenon where a President was perceived as more important, more powerful, and preferable to his party. Note that the base of the scale is labeled “Public Opinion”.
Thomas E. Mann is the W. Averell Harriman Chair and a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, a non-partisan think tank based in Washington, D.C. He primarily studies and speaks on elections in the United States, campaign finance reform, Senate and filibuster reform, Congress, redistricting, and political polarization.