Eunice By Susan Estrich
She was the candidate's sister, the former president's sister, the wife of the former vice presidential candidate. Legend had it that she was smarter than any of them.
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August 12, 2009
August 12, 2009
North Korea, Iran Rank One, Two on U.S. Enemies List
Both are developing nuclear weapons and refuse to listen to the United Nations and other international mediators who are trying to talk them out of it. They’re also the nations that sizable majorities of Americans consider to be the biggest enemies of the United States.
August 11, 2009
Elderly Swing Against Obama Plan By Dick Morris
The most ominous signal yet for the Obama health care plan emerged in the poll by Scott Rasmussen released today. While public support for the plan fell to a new low (42% support, 53% oppose -- down five points in two weeks), the elderly emerged as the strongest opposition group.
August 11, 2009
Rasmussen Reports Daily Prediction Challenge: Immigration
The daily Rasmussen Reports Prediction Challenge for Tuesday focuses on illegal immigration
August 11, 2009
Republicans Maintain Lead Over Democrats on Generic Ballot
The findings in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot remain fairly steady, as Republican candidates continue to hold a modest lead over Democrats for the seventh straight week.
August 11, 2009
Canada, Great Britain Seen As America’s Best Friends
The United States has been the world’s sole superpower since the fall of the Soviet Union in the early ‘90s, but as far as most Americans are concerned, we haven’t made any new friends since then.
August 11, 2009
Support for Congressional Health Care Reform Falls to New Low
Public support for the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats has fallen to a new low as just 42% of U.S. voters now favor the plan. That’s down five points from two weeks ago.
August 11, 2009
Is Crowding Criminogenic? By Debra J. Saunders
The first thing you have to know when you read that California's 33 adult prisons -- like the state prison in Chino where riots erupted over the weekend -- are operating at 190 percent capacity is that 100 percent capacity means one inmate per cell, single bunks in dormitories and no beds in spaces not designed for housing. Put two inmates in a single cell and bunk beds in lieu of single beds and you get 200 percent capacity.
August 11, 2009
2009 Virginia Governor: McDonnell (R) 47% Deeds (D) 38%
Republican candidate Robert F. McDonnell has opened a nine-point lead over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds in the race for governor in Virginia.
August 11, 2009
Greedy Geezers Are Not Nice People By Froma Harrop
Let's talk about greedy geezers. The term displeases me because I find the vast majority of older people to be wonderfully generous and concerned for others.
August 11, 2009
65% Say They’re Likely to Get Swine Flu Vaccine
Sixty-five percent (65%) of Americans say they are at least somewhat likely to get the swine flu vaccine if it becomes available, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Thirty-eight percent (38%) say they are very likely to do so.
August 10, 2009
45% Rate Obama Good or Excellent As A Leader, Down 19 Points From January
Forty-five percent (45%) of U.S. voters now give President Obama good or excellent marks on leadership, down three points from last month and down 19 points from when he took office in January, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
August 10, 2009
32% Favor Single-Payer Health Care, 57% Oppose
Thirty-two percent (32%) of voters nationwide favor a single-payer health care system where the federal government provides coverage for everyone. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% are opposed to a single-payer plan.
August 10, 2009
Americans Still See More Enemies Than Friends In Middle East
The United States still has a long way to go building friendships in the Middle East despite President Obama’s highly-publicized outreach to the Muslim world.
August 10, 2009
Government Health Care in Stealth Mode By Michael Barone
One video is worth a thousand words (or, as in this column, about 730). The video in question, put together by a group called Verum Serum, shows public statements by three advocates of single-payer (government monopoly) health insurance explaining that a health care bill with a "government option" would move America toward a single-payer government health care system. You may not have heard of the first two, Rep. Jan Schakowsky and professor Jacob Hacker. But you have heard of the third, President Barack Obama.
August 10, 2009
On Health Care, 51% Fear Government More Than Insurance Companies
When it comes to health care decisions, 51% of the nation’s voters fear the federal government more than private insurance companies.
August 10, 2009
Rasmussen Reports Daily Prediction Challenge: Paula Abdul
The daily Rasmussen Reports Prediction Challenge for Monday focuses on Paula Abdul's recent departure from American Idol.
August 9, 2009
21% Say Vietnam Still An Enemy of U.S., 21% Say Ally
For most Baby Boomers, the Vietnam War was a watershed moment, with the names of the dead memorialized on a black marble wall in Washington, D.C., and on similar monuments around the country. Thirty-four years after that war finally ended, Americans are evenly divided over whether Vietnam is an ally or still an enemy of the United States.
August 9, 2009
Rally Round the Flag By Debra J. Saunders
Imagine it's four years ago and an aide to President Bush posted a blog on the Whitehouse.gov website that bemoaned Internet criticism of the Iraq war, then continued: "These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversations.
August 8, 2009
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending August 8, 2009
Now the health care reform debate begins in earnest.
