Polling & Research
What The Voters Are Telling Us
Americans are frustrated, disillusioned, and looking for a clear plan, and the polling keeps confirming it: Strong Floor, No Ceiling resonates powerfully the moment voters hear it, with no money spent to put it there.
Majority appeal in every region
“America must provide a solid foundation of opportunity so no one falls behind, and a limitless horizon so everyone can rise as high as their hard work takes them”, found very or somewhat appealing nationwide (65%), with no spend, education, or outreach.
- 69%West
- 67%Midwest
- 64%South
- 64%Northeast
No polling was done during the writing of the book. In December 2025, for the first time, we surveyed likely voters in the battleground states of Michigan and Georgia to test whether a simple, balanced framework could rebuild trust in opportunity and ambition at the same time.
Large majorities supported a strong floor built on affordable healthcare, education, jobs, housing, and justice, and at the same time overwhelmingly believed there should be no ceiling on success for those who work hard, pay taxes, and play by the rules. By March, awareness had only grown, to 10% in Michigan (+3) and 18% in Georgia (+8), still with no paid outreach of any kind.
The March 2026 battleground test confirmed at scale what Michigan and Georgia first showed: Strong Floor, No Ceiling offers the intuitive, hopeful, and unifying vision Americans are hungry for.
In June we went national. Slingshot surveyed 1,005 likely voters, plus four red-to-blue House districts and seven Senate battlegrounds, and awareness had doubled again since March with still no money spent on it, climbing among persuadable voters from +9 to +19 (+10). The four words carry +20 net appeal nationally; the full promise behind them reaches +43 (+23), and clears +36 in every district and state tested. Most consequentially, a Democratic candidate running on Strong Floor, No Ceiling outperformed a generic Democrat in every competitive geography, a national margin of +9 against +7 (+2), and an average of nearly six points added across the swing House districts over a generic Democrat.