38% Say Trump Keeping Campaign Promises More Than Most Presidents
Voters don’t have much faith when it comes to political campaign promises, but a sizable number think President Trump is more likely to deliver than most.
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March 21, 2018
March 20, 2018
Trump's Presence on Campaign Trail Doesn't Excite GOP Voters
Most Republicans plan to vote for a member of Congress who supports President Trump’s agenda, but they have reservations when it comes to the president joining candidates on the campaign trail.
March 20, 2018
Who's Afraid of Mergers? By Stephen Moore
Donald Trump is producing the kind of shoot-the-moon economic recovery that we last saw under Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. He's copied a lot from the Reagan playbook: Deregulate; cut taxes; promote American energy. He should also think about adopting another Reaganite initiative: Let American companies grow, merge, restructure and become more profitable so they can compete on the global stage.
March 20, 2018
Did Putin Order the Salisbury Hit? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Britain has yet to identify the assassin who tried to murder the double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, England.
But Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson knows who ordered the hit.
March 20, 2018
Americans Are Happy to Welcome Spring
Although harsh winter nor’easters continue to threaten much of the eastern United States, today is still the first day of spring, and that puts a spring in the steps of most Americans.
March 19, 2018
41% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-one percent (41%) of Likely U.S. Voters now think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending March 15.
March 19, 2018
Voters Place Importance on Amnesty Over Border Control
When it comes to immigration, voters want to take care of those brought here as children first, then focus on building a wall.
March 19, 2018
Black Voters Like Louis Farrakhan. Everyone Else, Not So Much
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus and a leader of the Women’s March are catching heat after information surfaced that they met with or appeared at events with Louis Farrakhan, a notorious anti-Semite.
March 17, 2018
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending March 17, 2018
Churn in the Trump administration continued apace this week highlighted by a Cabinet-level shift in which President Trump moved CIA Director Mike Pompeo to the State Department as a replacement for ousted Secretary Rex Tillerson, with Deputy Director Gina Haspel replacing Pompeo at CIA.
March 16, 2018
Democrats Should Run On Impeachment By Ted Rall
Democrats are already counting their electoral chickens for the midterms - but their unwillingness to lay out a clear agenda may be about to hand the party their second devastating defeat in two years.
March 16, 2018
For GOP Voters, Pompeo’s Good, But He’s No Tillerson
President Trump tapped CIA Director Mike Pompeo to be his new secretary of State.
March 16, 2018
Is the GOP Staring at Another 1930? By Patrick J. Buchanan
After the victory of Donald Trump in 2016, the GOP held the Senate and House, two-thirds of the governorships, and 1,000 more state legislators than they had on the day Barack Obama took office.
March 16, 2018
Job Market Confidence Hits New Highs
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced last week that 313,000 jobs were created in February and the unemployment rate remained at a 17-year low. Though President Trump’s new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports have some wondering what effect they’ll have on the job market, Americans are more confident than ever that things will only get better.
March 16, 2018
Democrats Can Take the House, if They Just Pick Conor Lamb Over Hillary Clinton By Michael Barone
What if they held a special election and nobody won? That's more or less what happened in southwestern Pennsylvania, in the special election to fill the vacancy in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District.
March 15, 2018
Americans Want News Right, Not First
In today’s 24/7 news cycle, most Americans still think the media is obsessed with getting the story first, when they think they should be focused on getting it right.
March 15, 2018
52% Say Trump Relies Less on Cabinet Than Other Presidents
Following President Trump’s firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, voters remain strongly convinced that a president’s Cabinet plays a critical role in governance, but most also agree that Trump doesn’t use his Cabinet like his predecessors did.
March 15, 2018
Are Republicans In More Special Trouble? By Kyle Kondik
Assessing upcoming House specials in Arizona and Ohio after Lamb’s upset in Pennsylvania
March 15, 2018
Most Worry Tariffs Will Lead to A Trade War
Most Americans fear that President Trump's new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports will trigger a trade war and think it's better for the federal government to mind its own business.
March 14, 2018
70% Say ‘No’ to Slavery Reparations
Congresswoman Maxine Waters constantly calls for President Trump’s impeachment and even suggests she may challenge him in 2020. But few voters think favorably of the California Democrat, and they look even less favorably on her support for slavery reparations for black Americans.
March 14, 2018
Another Party Line Split, This Time On Tariffs
President Trump signed an order last week imposing a tariff on steel and aluminum imports. Most Republicans support the new order, but Democrats give it a thumbs down.
