Obama's New New Deal No Better Than the Old One By Michael Barone
With victory in sight, Barack Obama's supporters are predicting that he will give us a new New Deal. To see what that might mean, let's look back on the original New Deal.
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October 28, 2008
78% View OPEC Unfavorably
Oil prices are plummeting, and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), including Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, doesn’t like it. For Americans, it means the lowest prices they’ve paid at the gas pump in months.
October 28, 2008
65% Say Natural Gas-Run Cars Likely in 10 Years
Oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens has been campaigning nearly as hard this year as John McCain and Barack Obama, but his cause is to lessen America’s dependence on foreign oil through wind, solar power and vehicles powered by natural gas.
October 28, 2008
Greenspan Should Have Stuck With the Clarinet By Froma Harrop
The 1949 movie of Ayn Rand's novel "The Fountainhead" ends with Patricia Neal elevating to the top of a new skyscraper to greet its godlike architect, Gary Cooper.
October 28, 2008
Not Moderates but GOP Wimps By Debra J. Saunders
I've long considered myself a bad Republican. During the Bush administration, for example, I've felt free to whack George W. and Republicans in Congress for passing big-spending bills, such as their pork-rich 2002 farm bill, the underfunded prescription-drug bill and earmark spending. But in 2008, I find that I'm a piker in the bad Republican department.
October 27, 2008
47% Say Congress Has More Power Over Economy Than President and Fed Chairman
Nearly half (47%) of U.S. voters say Congress has more control over the direction of the economy than the president and the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
October 27, 2008
Discover(R) Small Business Watch (SM): Small Business Economic Confidence Continues to Slide
The Discover (R) Small Business Watch (SM) dropped for the second straight month as news of a congressional rescue plan failed to lift the spirits or expectations of the nation's 22 million small business owners.
October 25, 2008
New Rasmussen Reports Partisan Weighting Targets: 40.0% Democrat 32.8% Republican
Like all polling firms, Rasmussen Reports weights its data to reflect the population at large. Among other targets, Rasmussen Reports weights data by political party affiliation using a dynamic weighting process.
October 25, 2008
50% of Voters Believe Ayers Issue Has Hurt McCain Campaign
Just 28% of voters believe that John McCain’s campaign has been helped by talking about the relationship between Barack Obama and William Ayers.
October 25, 2008
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending October 25, 2008
With 10 days until the election, things are looking good for Barack Obama in most of the nation.
October 25, 2008
Reagan + Friedman + Keynes: We Need All the Help We Can Get By Lawrence Kudlow
Back in early 1981, when I went to Washington to work for President Reagan, one of the architects of supply-side economics, Columbia University's Robert Mundell, visited my OMB budget-bureau office inside the White House complex.
October 25, 2008
A Reality Check on Obama's Wish List By Michael Barone
What will an Obama administration and a Congress with increased Democratic majorities do? That's a relevant question, given the Democrats' leads in the polls. And it's a little hard to answer, given the financial crisis that has been raging and the recession that seems to be ahead.
October 25, 2008
25% of Adults Plan to Dress Up This Halloween
Boo! Halloween is just around the corner, and not just children are dressing up for the “spook-takular” holiday.
October 24, 2008
Keep Worrying By Susan Estrich
My Democratic friends want to know when they can stop worrying.
October 24, 2008
House Race Update By Larry J. Sabato, Isaac Wood, and Paul Wiley
Every week it seems to get worse for House Republicans. As we will demonstrate below, we have expanded the number of possible to likely net gains for Democrats from our previous 15 to 20 to a new and rather astounding 22 to 27 seats.
October 23, 2008
Democrats’ Lead Slips in Generic Congressional Ballot
The Democrats’ lead over the GOP slipped two points over the past week in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional ballot. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that, if given the choice, 45% of voters would choose their district’s Democratic candidate, while 39% would choose the Republican candidate.
October 23, 2008
26% Angry About Immigration, The Issue Candidates Ignore
It’s the issue both presidential candidates have largely ignored as they court the nation’s growing Hispanic population, but one-out-of-four U.S. voters (26%) is still angry about the current immigration situation.
October 23, 2008
38% Fear Crisis Early in Obama’s Presidency
Thirty-eight percent (38%) of U.S. voters are very concerned that Barack Obama will be tested with an international crisis in his first six months as president, as his running mate Joseph Biden has predicted.
October 23, 2008
McCain's Socialist Delusion By Joe Conason
Wherever John McCain appears on the stump in these waning days of the presidential campaign, he is always accompanied by his imaginary friend "Joe the Plumber," but it is the specter of Karl Marx that lurks just offstage.
October 23, 2008
Democratic Wave Continues to Build By Larry Sabato
Back in 2002 and 2004, the Crystal Ball brought misery to Democrats and joy to Republicans, as we projected the solid GOP victories that occurred in those years. The cycle of politics is not to be denied, and so in 2006 and now in 2008, there is a role reversal.
