The Roman historian Livy famously described the terminal plight of the late Roman Republic: "Nec vitia nostra nec remedia pati possumus"
("We can bear neither our shortcomings nor the remedies for them"). As I reread this phrase in Christian Meier's biography of Julius Caesar this past
weekend, I couldn't help thinking of America's current fiscal profligacy -- which has been growing for years at an ever-accelerating rate.
Voters remain closely divided on the urgency for health care reform, given the troubled state of the economy.
A year ago, the nation’s largest newspaper wrote in an editorial that it was time to “move beyond vouchers” in the debate over America’s educational future.
Democratic and Republican Congressional candidates have each lost support from voters this week, but Democrats came in just ahead in the latest edition of the Generic Ballot.
While the economy remains the most important issue to voters, the issues of health care and national security have dropped to their lowest level of importance in nearly two years of tracking.
The daily Rasmussen Reports Prediction Challenge for Tuesday focuses on the General Motors bailout.
The Department of Justice on Tuesday said the state of Georgia's system cannot check driver’s license information and Social Security numbers to prove that prospective voters are U.S. citizens.
Isn’t it fascinating that stocks rallied over 200 points on Monday, despite Obama’s command-and-control government takeover of General Motors? I think it’s because GM’s old-economy operation is yesterday’s story.
Support for health care reform has slipped slightly as more voters think President Obama should work harder on his promise to cut the federal deficit in half in the next four years.
If law enforcement officials believe they can prove that Scott Roeder is guilty of Sunday's shooting death of abortion doctor George Tiller at the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kan., then they should work to put him away for life. Roeder is being held on first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault.
Most U.S. voters continue to worry that the federal government will do too much in reacting to the country’s current economic problems.
The most notable downsizing of the American home has been in its price. The luxury end usually escapes the worst of housing downturns, but not this time. For those seeking a reprieve from teardown mania, this is not a bad development. I refer to the trend whereby bungalows, Cape Cods and other assorted gracious homes are flattened and replaced by monster mansions. Perhaps the forces of sanity can regroup.
The daily Rasmussen Reports Prediction Challenge for Monday focuses on America's relationship with the Muslim world.
In April, for the second straight month, the number of Republicans in the nation fell by roughly half a percentage point. The number of Democrats remained unchanged from a month ago.
In April, for the second straight month, the number of Republicans in the nation fell by roughly half a percentage point. The number of Democrats remained unchanged from a month ago.
General Motors for decades has been the symbol of U.S. industrial might. “What’s good for General Motors is good for the country” is a quotation that has lingered in the popular imagination since it was first said over 50 years ago. And the truth is, at its high point in 1962, GM had 51 percent of the car and truck market to itself.
Conan O'Brien officially replaces Jay Leno as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" today, but Johnny Carson is still the king of late-night comedy.
The Politico reports that “the broad outlines of a consensus plan” have emerged for health care reform. While acknowledging that there are “no guarantees,” the influential Washington newspaper says that the consensus is built around guidelines that assume “all Americans would be guaranteed access to health insurance. In fact, they’d probably be required to purchase it.”
Thirty-one percent (31%) of U.S. voters believe the economic stimulus package passed earlier this year has helped the economy. That's down from 34% who thought it would help in late February and 38% who held that view when it first passed earlier in the month.
Move to the center. That's the advice Republicans are getting from quarters friendly and otherwise. It seems to make a certain amount of sense. If opinion is arrayed along a single-dimension, left-to-right spectrum and clustered in the middle in a bell-curve pattern, then a party on the right needs only to move a few steps toward the center or just beyond to convert itself from minority to majority status.
