40% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty percent (40%) 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 January 11.
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January 15, 2018
January 15, 2018
Just 22% Think Race Relations Are Getting Better
This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Americans have a marginally more promising outlook on race relations than they did six months ago.
January 15, 2018
CNN's Stephen Miller Incident Proves How Fake News Ignorantly Smears Conservatives By Charles Hurt
Behold, the anatomy of a “fake news” smear.
January 15, 2018
62% Say MLK's Dream Still Not Reality
More Americans than ever believe Martin Luther King Jr.’s dreams of equal opportunity in the country still aren’t a reality.
January 13, 2018
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending on January 13, 2018
Democrats seem to live outrage to outrage in the Trump era, but even they admit it hasn’t been a very effective political strategy.
January 13, 2018
'The Post': No Way Today's Newspapers Would Publish The Pentagon Papers By Ted Rall
Steven Spielberg's new movie "The Post" depicts a newspaper's decision to defy the government, risk its financial health and imprisonment of its editors in order to report a hard truth and defend the press' First Amendment rights by publishing the Pentagon Papers.
January 12, 2018
Voters See Diminishing Nuclear Threat from North Korea
With President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un talking more diplomatically and North Korea sending athletes to the Winter Olympics in neighboring South Korea, fears of a nuclear attack from the rogue regime in Pyongyang are lessening here.
January 12, 2018
Little Rocket Man Wins the Round By Patrick J. Buchanan
After a year in which he tested a hydrogen bomb and an ICBM, threatened to destroy the United States, and called President Trump "a dotard," Kim Jong Un, at the gracious invitation of the president of South Korea, will be sending a skating team to the "Peace Olympics."
January 12, 2018
Can Democrats in Congress Stop Trump?
Even Democrats aren't overly confident that their legislators in Congress will be able to stop President Trump's agenda.
January 12, 2018
Is 'Fire and Fury' Fizzling? By Michael Barone
The most disappointed people in America this past week must be those Trump execrators who opened their Amazon package only to find that the copy of "Fire and Fury" they had ordered was subtitled "The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945." It's a well-regarded 2009 volume by University of Toronto historian Randall Hansen, who is surely grateful for the unanticipated royalties.
January 11, 2018
Most Don't See Celebrities as Good Role Models
Following this year’s Golden Globes, the first award show of Hollywood’s #MeToo era, even fewer Americans see celebrities as good role models.
January 11, 2018
Most Voters Want to Continue State Enforcement of Pot Laws
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced plans to roll back Obama-era protections that ease federal marijuana laws in states where the drug is legalized. But most voters want to keep marijuana regulated at the state level, not a federal one.
January 11, 2018
Most Voters Won't Read New Trump White House Book
Voters are split on whether the new book about President Donald Trump, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” is an attack piece or truth. But most don't plan to read it anyway.
January 11, 2018
The Governors: Judge 2018 by the Big States By Kyle Kondik
Democrats should end the year with more governorships than they hold now. One reasonable way to measure Democrats’ success is whether they get into the 20s — they have 16 governorships now, so that would mean a gain of four or more.
January 10, 2018
Voters Have Little Faith in War on Drugs
Voters strongly believe the war on drugs isn’t working, but they also don’t think we’re spending enough on it.
January 10, 2018
Oprah vs. The Donald, and The Winner Is…
TV personality Oprah Winfrey is the likely winner over President Trump if the 2020 election were held today, but there are a lot of undecideds.
January 10, 2018
Punish Poor People By John Stossel
Store owner Kamal Saleh was just hit with thousands of dollars in fines.
January 10, 2018
Voters Still Say Trump Likely to Erase Obama’s Accomplishments
Voters continue to believe that President Trump has only just begun to undo the achievements of his predecessor, Democrat Barack Obama.
January 9, 2018
Dems Say Ignore Trump, But Few Think It's Working
Most Democrats think the key to success moving forward is to stonewall President Donald Trump, but few Democrats think that strategy has paid off thus far.
