When Barack Obama first met his Auntie Zeituni at an airport in Kenya in 1988, his late father's sister told him, "Welcome home," and kissed him on both cheeks. Obama was on a pilgrimage to the land where his African father lived apart from Obama's American mother.
This president hasn’t had an easy week since he took office, and the past one was one of his toughest yet.
The University of North Carolina Tar Heels are well ahead of the competition in the latest Rasmussen Reports Prediction Challenge, with 46% predicting the team will win this year’s NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament.
Barack Obama's foreign policy is beginning to take shape. Semantically, it's a sharp repudiation of the policies of the George W. Bush administration. In reality, it's something like a continuation of Bush policies. Or, if you want to distinguish between the allegedly confrontation-minded policies of Bush's first term and the more accommodationist policies of his second term -- a distinction that I think is exaggerated but has something to it -- then it's something like the second Bush term. With, of course, some differences.
Forty-four percent (44%) of Americans say the current global economic crisis is more likely to create tension between the United States and other nations rather than to encourage more cooperation.
President Obama’s intelligence chief said last week that some inmates at the Guantanamo terrorist prison camp may be released in the United States, but just 13% of U.S. voters think that should be allowed.
California may be the Golden State, but it has been a while since people have called it that without a trace of sarcasm. With its double digit unemployment rate, difficult to balance budget, and crumbling infrastructure, California these days is anything but golden.
Forty-four percent (44%) of U.S. voters like the idea of a federal government guarantee of automobile warranties issued by companies that go out of business, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
So much for the hoopla and highly publicized activities of this week’s G-20 economic summit.
American voters want -- and President Obama campaigned on a platform of -- European-style government at American tax rates.
Twenty-one percent (21%) of U.S. voters now think Congress is doing a good or excellent job, its highest ratings in over a year, but nearly twice as many (41%) also think most members of Congress are corrupt.
There's trouble around the Democratic campfire. The party has the White House and solid congressional majorities. But what it doesn't have is everyone on the same page, strumming the same chords, singing the same tune.
Team Obama fired GM CEO Rick Wagoner Sunday afternoon, just a short time after Treasury man Tim Geithner told the television talk shows that some banks will need large amounts of new TARP-money government assistance -- even though the bankers don't want it.
This is the finding that struggling daily newspapers don’t want to hear: 61% of American adults are confident that online and other news sources will make up the difference and report things people want to know about if many newspapers go out of business.
While the leaders of the world's largest economies debate stimulus and regulation in London, let us hope they do not forget about crime and punishment.
Voter confidence that the United States is heading in the right direction increased to the highest level in more than four years. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 36% of voters believe the nation is heading in the right direction.
In March, the number of Democrats in the nation fell two percentage points while the number of Republicans fell by half-a-point. Democrats continue to have a sizable advantage in terms of partisan identification, but the advantage is smaller than it’s been since December 2007.
Americans have come a long way from the days when what was good for General Motors was seen as good for the country.
The tombstone for General Motors really should have read 1908-2008.
