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October 11, 2017

Obama Lied. My FOURTH Health Plan Died. By Michelle Malkin

Cue the funeral bagpipes. My fourth health insurance plan is dead.

October 10, 2017

Most Recognize Evil But Question If Some Are Born That Way

President Trump called the mass killings in Las Vegas last week “an act of pure evil” when many of his opponents were trying to blame the guns involved instead.

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October 10, 2017

Kevin Hassett Spanks the Tax Policy Center By Lawrence Kudlow

President Trump's new chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Kevin Hassett, walked into the lion's den last week with his first official speech. He used the moment to pound the leftist Tax Policy Center. It was a wonderful sight.

October 10, 2017

Support for Columbus Day Is Up, But 32% Want A Change

Support for Columbus Day is at its highest level in several years, but a sizable number of Americans are ready to replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day, an idea that’s already caught on in a number of places around the country.

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October 10, 2017

Trump Embraces the Culture War By Patrick J. Buchanan

To attend the Indianapolis Colts game where the number of the legendary Peyton Manning was to be retired, Vice President Mike Pence, a former governor of Indiana, flew back from Las Vegas.

October 9, 2017

32% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Thirty-two percent (32%) 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 October 5.

October 9, 2017

Voters Still Highly Skeptical of Politicians Who Raise Gun Issues

The mass shooting in Las Vegas has renewed talks of gun-control legislation in Congress, but most voters continue to question the motives of politicians who raise gun-related issues.

October 9, 2017

Is the Nobel Prize Still the Most Prestigious?

As this year’s Nobel Prize winners are being announced, most Americans aren’t paying attention and are evenly split over whether it’s the most prestigious award one can win.

October 7, 2017

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending October 7, 2017

The schizoid character of America these days is captured in two of our latest polls.

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October 6, 2017

Hugh Hefner Said His Critics Were Prudes And Puritans By Ted Rall

No one has ever accused Ross Douthat of excessive astuteness. "Donald Trump isn't going to be the Republican nominee," wrote in January 2016. Dude is paid to prognosticate politics. Even so, Douthat probably pulls down six figures at The New York Times, which doesn't grant me the courtesy of a rejection letter. So people pay attention to him.

October 6, 2017

Voters Want More Gun Control, Less Sure It Will Work

Voters see a need for tougher gun regulation following the Las Vegas massacre but remain closely divided over whether it would prevent future mass killings.

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October 6, 2017

The Dead Soul of Stephen Paddock By Patrick J. Buchanan

What was his motive? Why did he do it?

October 6, 2017

Consumer Spending Update: Economic Confidence Remains High

The overall Rasmussen Reports Economic Index for October rose two points to 129.2. Enthusiasm about the economy started to grow immediately following the 2016 presidential election and continues to show the highest level of confidence since this tracking began in 2014.

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October 6, 2017

Both Parties' Extremists Seem Determined to Lose the Next Elections By Michael Barone

Almost no one disagrees that our two major political parties, the oldest and third-oldest in the world, have become increasingly extreme and estranged over the past decade. It's a startling contrast with the state of political conflict in the dozen or so years after the fall of the Soviet empire.   

October 5, 2017

42% Say Nutritional School Lunches Should Be a Requirement

There has been a push for schools to offer more nutritional meals to students to fight the childhood obesity problem that most see as a problem today, and more are now convinced that a lunch meeting nutrition standards should be a requirement in schools.

October 5, 2017

Voter Belief that Supreme Court Should Stick to the Constitution Plunges

A majority of voters continue to believe the U.S. Supreme Court should abide by the Constitution, but that number dropped to its lowest level in nearly a decade.

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October 5, 2017

The Republican Senate Edge By Kyle Kondik

The U.S. Senate is a curious, unique legislative body for a lot of reasons. It has arcane rules, such as the filibuster, which limits the passage of most legislative items unless 60 members vote yes. Representation in the Senate is not based on population; instead, each state gets two and only two senators, meaning that California (the most populous state) and Wyoming (the least populous) have equal say in the Senate. Each get 2% of the Senate’s membership — two out of 100 senators — even though California has 12% of the nation’s people while Wyoming only has 0.2%. And unlike the House, where the entire membership is on the ballot every two years, only a third of the Senate’s membership is on the ballot each federal election cycle.

October 5, 2017

More Now See Supreme Court as Too Conservative

The Supreme Court returned to the bench on Monday, at full-strength for the first time since Justice Antonin Scalia’s death in early 2016. But with his replacement, Justice Neil Gorsuch on the court, voters are now more likely to think the court leans too far right.

October 4, 2017

Most Say Athletics Have Too Much Power Over Colleges, Universities

Despite the fact that many big-time NCAA basketball programs are now reeling from a recruitment bribery scandal, fewer Americans think college athletic programs corrupt the higher education process. But most continue to believe these programs have too much clout.

October 4, 2017

32% Are Less Likely To Go To Big Events After Las Vegas Killings

Americans appear to be taking the Las Vegas massacre in stride, and most aren’t planning to change their personal habits because of it.