When It Comes to Customer Service, Voters Rate Religion Over Politics
Contrary to the courts, voters are far more supportive of allowing a business owner to refuse a customer service for religious reasons than for political ones
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May 2, 2018
May 1, 2018
54% Say the U.S., Allies Winning War on Terror
Voter confidence that the United States is winning the War on Terror is at its highest level since Osama bin Laden was killed nearly seven years ago. But Democrats aren't as convinced.
May 1, 2018
Goodbye, OPEC By Stephen Moore
I have argued many times on these pages and elsewhere that the shale oil and gas revolution is the story of the decade. Since 2007 U.S. oil and gas output has risen by about 75 percent, and the renaissance is still in its infancy stages.
May 1, 2018
Americans Support Plastic Bag Ban Over Five-Cent Fee
A year ago, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo rejected a five-cent fee on plastic shopping bags at retail stores. Now, he’s planning to introduce a bill to ban plastic bags outright in the state, joining California and Hawaii. Americans are more inclined to agree with the plan to ban bags all together than to pay out of pocket to use them.
May 1, 2018
Smut Night at the Press Dinner By Patrick J. Buchanan
Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, billed as a celebration of the First Amendment and a tribute to journalists who "speak truth to power," has to be the worst advertisement in memory for our national press corps.
April 30, 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 April 26.
April 30, 2018
Most Want to Keep Out Central Americans Now At Mexico Border
Most voters think the government should stop the caravan of Central Americans now at the Mexican border from entering the United States. Even more say failing to stop them will lead to more illegal immigration.
April 30, 2018
46% Favor Government Guaranteed Jobs for All
Senator Bernie Sanders is looking ahead to the 2020 presidential election with a proposed federal government program that guarantees all Americans a job with health insurance. Nearly half of voters like the idea.
April 28, 2018
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending April 28, 2018
Good news this week — including an historic meeting of the leaders of North and South Korea — countered the drone of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of purported Trump campaign collusion with Russia and the dirge of former FBI Director James Comey over his waning career.
April 27, 2018
Ban Drones By Ted Rall
We have succumbed, in recent years, to technological passivity, the assumption that there's nothing we can (or should) do about what an older generation used to call "progress." But that's not true.
April 27, 2018
Voters Still See Iran Nuclear Deal as Ineffective
As the deadline approaches for President Donald Trump to decide whether the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, a majority of voters continues to believe it has done little to cease the development of nuclear weapons in Iran. But that figure has been trending downward since details of the Obama administration's plan began to emerge.
April 27, 2018
Macron: The Last Multilateralist By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Together," President Macron instructed President Trump, "we can resist the rise of aggressive nationalisms that deny our history and divide the world."
April 27, 2018
Trump's Saudi Policy Gamble By Michael Barone
Seventy-three years ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt, on his trip back from the Yalta conference with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin, held his last meeting with foreign leaders, aboard the USS Quincy in the Suez Canal's Great Bitter Lake. One was with the desert warrior king, Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, who sailed in with seven live sheep and a tent to sleep in on deck.
April 27, 2018
More Voters Want a Special Prosecutor to Investigate FBI
As Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation wears on and former FBI Director James Comey’s book drops more inside information about the 2016 election, more voters now think a special prosecutor should be assigned to investigate the FBI.
April 26, 2018
Americans Strongly Favor English as Official Language
Michigan recently introduced legislation to make English the official state language, making it one of 32 states to do so, while a bill to do the same on a national level was reintroduced in Congress last year. As they have for more than a decade, most Americans support such legislation.
April 26, 2018
55% Agree Trump’s Travel Ban Targets Terrorists, Not Muslims
Voters still tend to support President Trump’s temporary ban on newcomers from certain countries, and more voters than ever now agree that it’s intended to stop likely terrorists.
April 26, 2018
New RINOs Could Spell Trouble for the GOP
Are a lot more GOP voters Republicans In Name Only (RINOs) these days?
April 26, 2018
Raising the Ceiling, but Not the Floor, on Potential Democratic House Gains By Kyle Kondik
Rep.-elect Debbie Lesko (R, AZ-8)’s victory in a special election Tuesday night fit into the pattern we’ve seen in other special elections this cycle. In a clearly Republican-leaning seat, Lesko won but ran significantly behind Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential performance. Trump won the district by 21 percentage points, whereas Lesko only won by about five points, based on unofficial results. Given the district’s strong Republican lineage, we thought any result in the single digits would be bad for Republicans. Lesko should be fine in the fall as an incumbent — and we’re moving her district to Safe Republican — but we now have had eight federal special elections this cycle in Trump-won, Republican-held seats (including the Alabama Senate election), and while Republicans have retained six of them, only one of those was an easy hold (UT-3).
April 25, 2018
Americans See Climbing Gas Prices
Gas prices are starting to surge around the country, and Americans are feeling the pain already.
April 25, 2018
Half of Americans See Less Free Speech on College Campuses These Days
Several recent cases have challenged freedom of speech on college campuses across the United States. Nearly half of Americans think college students have less freedom of speech these days, and few think professors and administrators promote the free exchange of ideas.
