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January 27, 2022The Challenges of Electing Governors and Lieutenant Governors Separately By Louis Jacobson
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— In almost half the states, governors and lieutenant governors are either nominated separately, or else the official who is next in the line of succession is elected separately.
— This makes it reasonably common for the governor and lieutenant governor to come from separate parties. Currently, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Vermont fall into this category. Sometimes these pairings work smoothly; other times, they don’t.
— Even governors and lieutenant governors from the same party can have relationships that range from distant to acrimonious. There are recent examples of this phenomenon in Idaho and Rhode Island.
— In states where gubernatorial candidates cannot choose their running mates, it may be harder for them to win the governorship in the first place.

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                            January 26, 2022Most Workers Don’t Expect Wage Increases
American workers are now less optimistic they’ll get a raise soon, but most plan to hold on to the job they’ve got.

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                            January 26, 2022Only 31% Want U.S. Troops to Defend Ukraine
With Russia threatening to invade Ukraine, less than a third of voters want American troops deployed to defend against such an attack.
January 26, 2022Sick City By John Stossel
San Francisco's liberal mayor declared a "state of emergency" to try to deal with the city's "nasty streets."

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                            January 25, 2022Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index - Week Ending January 20, 2022
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of January 16-20 2022, decreased to 85.9 down three points from 88.9 two weeks earlier.  The Immigration Index has been under the baseline in every survey since Election Day last year, and reached a record low of 82.3 in late March 2021.

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                            January 25, 2022Election Integrity: 63% Support ‘Truly Bipartisan’ Reform
Most voters are happy with last week’s defeat of Democrat-backed election reform legislation, and support a GOP senator’s call for a bipartisan bill.
January 25, 2022The Most Dangerous Virus Today Is Runaway Government Spending By Stephen Moore
When I came to Washington, D.C., in 1985, Ronald Reagan was president. I was working for the Reagan budget office. We did something we weren't very proud of at the time. We introduced the first $1 trillion budget in American history, which was unthinkable. One trillion dollars. There are 12 zeroes in a trillion. A trillion is a million dollars times a million. The budget deficit hit $200 billion and 6% of our entire GDP. Again, unthinkable.
January 25, 2022Is Biden Right? Does the Left Own the Future? by Patrick J. Buchanan
Before he appeared at his first solo news conference of 2022, President Joe Biden knew he had a communications problem he had to deal with.

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                            January 24, 202228% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-eight percent (28%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending January 20, 2022.

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                            January 24, 2022More Now View the Economy as Unfair, Especially to Minorities
Voters increasingly see the U.S. economy as being unfair, and think it is especially unfair to blacks and Hispanics.

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                            January 22, 2022What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 22, 2022
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            January 21, 2022Inflation, Crime Are Top Voter Concerns
Voters are significantly more worried about inflation and violent crime than they are about COVID-19 or climate change.
January 21, 2022Abolish Parenthood? No, Family Trumps 'Equity' by Michael Barone
"California should abolish parenthood, in the name of equity." That's the headline of a Ventura County Star column by Zocalo Public Square's Joe Mathews. "Want true equity?" the San Francisco Chronicle headlined the same column three days later. "California should force parents to give away their children." 
January 21, 2022By the Numbers, a Failing President By Patrick J. Buchanan
If the left believed that draping the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, around the neck of former President Donald Trump and the party that refused to repudiate him would sink the GOP, it appears to have miscalculated.

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                            January 20, 2022Nearly Half of Americans Under 40 Have Tattoos
Tattoos are increasingly common among younger Americans, and most of those who have tattoos have more than one.

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                            January 20, 2022D.C. Has Become More Partisan, Most Voters Believe
There’s too much partisanship and not enough cooperation in Washington, according to a majority of voters.
January 20, 2022Five Warning Signs for Biden as He Marks First Anniversary in Office By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
Reviewing Biden's (and Democrats') numbers after a turbulent first year.KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— As Joe Biden marks a year in office, he has found himself in a perilous position, and there are no obvious signs of improvement.
— Among Biden’s challenges is an apparently weakened position among nonwhite voters as well as younger voters, two immensely important pillars of the Democratic coalition.
— Inflation has re-emerged as an important problem for what appears to be the first time in decades, and Biden has work to do to persuade the public that he’s taking it seriously.
January 19, 202250% of Voters Rate Biden’s First Year ‘Very Unsuccessful’
President Joe Biden’s first year in office has been a failure, according to a majority of voters who say the Democrat has left the country more divided than when he was inaugurated.
January 19, 2022Evil Florida by John Stossel
Omicron spreads. The media say, "Governments must act!"

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                            January 18, 2022Voters Reject ‘Great Reset’ Agenda
Business should focus on traditional goals like consumer service and profit, rather than the social justice and environmentalist agenda of the “Great Reset” movement, most voters believe.