Voters Blame Trump; 40% Support Shutdown Compromise
Voters blame President Trump for the ongoing partial shutdown of the federal government and tend to oppose the compromise proposal he’s made to bring the shutdown to an end.
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January 24, 2019
January 24, 2019
2020 Electoral College: Why the Republicans’ Magic Number is Probably 269, Not 270 By Kyle Kondik
Despite Democratic takeover, Republicans still hold an edge if the House has to pick the president
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— There is at least one plausible Electoral College scenario that produces a 269-269 tie, which would throw the presidential election to the House of Representatives elected in 2020.
— If the House decides the presidency, you might think that Democrats would have the advantage, given their new majority. But it’s the Republicans that hold — and are likely to maintain — the advantage.
January 24, 2019
Voters Closely Divided Over RBG's Future on Supreme Court
Despite Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's continuing medical issues and her unprecedented absence from the high court, voters aren’t convinced the 85-year-old jurist will step down in time for President Trump to name her replacement.
January 23, 2019
Fewer Americans Reading Print News, But Confident There’s a Replacement
News that publisher Gannett is potentially being bought by hedge-fund-backed media group Digital First Media is just the latest sign that print news organizations are consolidating. Americans have more faith though that online and other news sources will be able to make up the difference.
January 23, 2019
GOP Voters Want Trump To Give State of the Union Speech, Democrats Don’t
Republicans think President Trump should stand tall and deliver his State of the Union address despite the ongoing government shutdown. Democrats, however, think he should wait until after it ends.
January 23, 2019
The Covington Rorschach Test By Michelle Malkin
Sometimes, a three-point celebration is just a three-point celebration. Sometimes, a pep rally is just a pep rally. Sometimes, a smile is just a smile. And sometimes, a hat is just a hat.
January 23, 2019
Most Voters Don’t See a Threat to Roe v. Wade
Just after the 46th anniversary of the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade, most voters are pro-choice and think the ruling is likely to stick for years to come.
January 23, 2019
School Choice By John Stossel
It's School Choice Week.
School choice is a noble cause. In much of America, parents have little or no control over where their kids attend school. Local governments assign schools by ZIP code.
January 22, 2019
Fewer Involved in Women’s March, But Support Unchanged
Participation in this past Sunday’s Women’s March appears to have gone down dramatically from two years ago when the first such march was held, but voters are little changed in their view that the annual event is good for women in general.
January 22, 2019
Now Pelosi Owns the Shutdown By Stephen Moore
On Saturday, Donald Trump shrewdly flipped the table on Nancy Pelosi in the government shutdown standoff. He has now proposed a grand bargain on immigration: legalization of some 1 million so-called Dreamers -- the foreigners who were brought into the U.S. illegally by their parents -- and an immediate end to the shutdown, if she agrees to expand funding to $5.7 billion for the wall.
January 22, 2019
When Democracy Fails to Deliver By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible ... make violent revolution inevitable," said John F. Kennedy.
January 22, 2019
66% Favor Citizenship Question on Census
A federal judge in New York has ruled against the Trump administration’s attempt to restore a citizenship question to the 2020 census, even though it’s a question most Americans want to ask.
January 21, 2019
33% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-three percent (33%) 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 17.
January 21, 2019
Americans Have Bleak Outlook on Race Relations This MLK Day
This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Americans aren’t particularly optimistic about the state of race relations in this country today.
January 21, 2019
Voters Still Lack Faith in the Federal Government
Voters continue to lack trust in the federal government’s ability to get things right, and most still believe the government is out for itself.
January 19, 2019
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 19, 2019
To quote the Bard, the Trump vs. Pelosi show is “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” So the partial government shutdown enters a record-breaking fifth week.
January 18, 2019
Will Elites Ever Respect Voters' Decisions on Brexit and Trump? By Michael Barone
It was no coincidence that Donald Trump scheduled a trip to Britain to promote one of his golf courses in Scotland, on June 23, 2016. That was the day of the Brexit referendum in which 52 percent of the electorate --17.4 million voters, more than any party has ever won in a general election -- voted for the UK to leave the European Union.
January 18, 2019
Pelosi, McConnell, Schumer Need More Friends
The 50-50 nation marches on. Half the voters in the country don’t like new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the highest ranking Democrat in Washington, D.C., but just as many disapprove of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Congress’ top Republican.
January 18, 2019
Voters Say Current Government Too Big for Founding Fathers
Most voters aren't scared of the federal government, but they think there's more of it than the country's Founders intended.
January 18, 2019
At Age 70, Time to Rethink NATO By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last."
So said President Charles De Gaulle, who in 1966 ordered NATO to vacate its Paris headquarters and get out of France.
