Are the Halcyon Days Over for Joe Biden? By Patrick J. Buchanan
On taking the oath of office, Jan. 20, Joe Biden may not have realized it, but history had dealt him a pair of aces.
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May 14, 2021
May 13, 2021
Less Than Half of U.S. Voters Confident Government Can Protect Pipelines
Last week’s hacker attack that shut down the Colonial Pipeline has raised concerns about the nation’s petroleum supply, and less than half of voters are confident that the federal government can protect against similar attacks in the future.
May 13, 2021
Climate Change: Liberal Media Viewers Think We’re Doomed
Most viewers of MSNBC and CNN believe climate change could doom mankind to extinction within 100 years, and viewers of those networks are also likely to overestimate the amount of global warming that has already occurred.
May 12, 2021
Inflation: Most Americans Are Concerned, Expect Grocery Prices to Keep Rising
Concerns about inflation are widespread, as Americans see higher prices for groceries and expect even higher prices in the future.
May 11, 2021
Most Americans Are Proud of Our History, But Many Democrats Disagree
Denunciations of our nation’s past haven’t made much headway with most Americans, who are still proud of their country’s history, but that pride is unevenly distributed along party lines.
May 11, 2021
Two-Thirds of Voters Say Border Problem Is a ‘Crisis,’ Most Blame Biden
While the Biden administration has denied that problems at the southern border are a “crisis,” two-thirds of voters disagree and most say that President Joe Biden’s policies are to blame.
May 11, 2021
98% of the Way There: Trump's Super V-Shaped Recovery by Stephen Moore
The U.S. economy peaked in late 2019 at $21 trillion. We are now remarkably 98% back to where we were before the terrible COVID-19 pandemic slammed these shores 14 months ago. This rebound is one of the outstanding U.S. achievements in history. Since June of last year, the economy has rocketed by 34% in quarter 3 of 2020, 4.2% in quarter 4 of 2020 and now 6.4% in the first three months of 2021. So far in this current quarter, growth is more than 10%.
May 11, 2021
Has the Backlash Arrived for Police-Bashing? by Pratick J. Buchanan
Within hours of Saturday's shooting in Times Square where three bystanders, including a 4-year-old girl, were wounded, the two leading candidates to replace Mayor Bill de Blasio were on-site.
May 10, 2021
42% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-two percent (42%) 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 May 6, 2021.
May 10, 2021
Most Voters Still Don’t Trust Social Media Censorship, But Democrats Do
After Facebook extended its ban of former President Donald Trump, most voters don’t trust censorship decisions by social media companies, but Democratic voters are the exception to the rule.
May 10, 2021
If the Vaccine Works, Why Are We Still Wearing Masks? By Brian C. Joondeph
One important lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic, perhaps not realized now but in the future, is to keep politics out of medicine and public health.
May 8, 2021
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 8, 2021
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
May 7, 2021
35% of Gun Owners Bought More Guns in the Past Year
Americans have been on a gun-buying spree the past year, to such an extent that many firearms owners now report difficulty finding enough ammunition.
May 7, 2021
Most Voters Want to End Protection for Social Media Companies After Trump Facebook Ban
In the wake of Facebook’s decision to permanently ban former President Donald Trump from the platform, a majority of voters now favor ending legal protections for social media companies.
May 7, 2021
Some Rotten Underpinnings of Biden's Positive Rating By Michael Barone
On the surface, Joe Biden seems to be doing pretty well. But underneath, there are signs of problems, areas where partisan overstretch threatens the underpinnings of what some are hailing as the new order of things.
May 7, 2021
Where Did All Those 'Capitalist Pigs' Go? by Patrick J. Buchanan
"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," is an insight the famed biographer James Boswell attributed to Samuel Johnson.
May 6, 2021
Cable News Audience Tunes Out CNN in Post-Trump Era
It may be that the biggest loser in last year’s election wasn’t a political candidate, but CNN, which has seen its ratings drop precipitously since former President Donald Trump left office in January.
May 6, 2021
How the Senate’s Long-Term Equilibrium Could Shape Democratic Decisions on the Filibuster By Louis Jacobson
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— A majority of states are now either solidly Republican or solidly Democratic on the presidential level, and the party a state prefers for president increasingly has a big edge in winning the state’s two Senate seats. Given these patterns, it’s possible to game out the basic contours of what the Senate “should” look like in the near future, barring some unexpected upheaval.
— Allocating Senate seats based on current presidential preferences produces an equilibrium of about 53 seats for the Republicans and 47 seats for the Democrats.
— This complicates the Democrats’ decision on whether to ditch the filibuster, because in a chamber where they may end up spending a lot of time in the minority in the future, ending the filibuster may destroy one of the few points of leverage the party would have.
May 5, 2021
Voters Favor Biden Infrastructure Plan, But More Support Compromise With GOP
President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan has support from a majority of voters, but an even larger majority want Biden and Democrats to compromise with congressional Republicans infrastructure spending.
