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.
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January 23, 2019
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.
January 17, 2019
Americans Still Like Teachers' Unions, But Half Say They Look Out For Their Own
As teachers in Los Angeles, home to the nation’s second-largest school district, continue to strike, support for teachers’ unions remains up. However, a majority think teachers' unions put membership protection over the quality of education.
January 17, 2019
Support for Unions Hold Steady Despite Public Employee Strikes
The current teachers’ strike in Los Angeles and those in other states last year have not cooled Americans’ support for labor unions.
January 16, 2019
Voters Still Report Little Personal Impact From Shutdown
Voters don’t care too much for the federal government, and the number who say they have been badly hurt by the continuing government shutdown remains small.
January 16, 2019
Procter & Gamble's Toxic Sanctimony By Michelle Malkin
One of the world's most successful brands committed ideological hara-kiri this week. Recognized around the world as a symbol of manly civility for more than a century, Gillette will now be remembered as the company that did itself in by sacrificing a massive consumer base at the altar of progressivism.
January 16, 2019
Shutdown 'Crisis' By John Stossel
This government shutdown is now longer than any in history. The media keep using the word "crisis."
"Shutdown sows chaos, confusion and anxiety!" says The Washington Post. "Pain spreads widely."
January 16, 2019
Democrats Warmly Embrace 'Green New Deal'
An increasing number of elected Democrats including several presidential hopefuls are endorsing a so-called Green New Deal although the details vary. Democratic voters love the concept, but other voters still aren't convinced.
