Gap Between Dems, GOP Narrows Slightly on Generic Ballot
Voters started the year favoring the Democrats, and while the party still leads, more voters are pulling for the Republicans as midterm elections get closer.
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March 7, 2018
March 7, 2018
Most See Russia Nuclear Attack As Unlikely
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced last week that Russia has developed a nuclear weapon capable of beating U.S. and NATO missile defenses. Voters here aren’t particularly worried about a Russian nuclear attack, but they are more concerned these days about souring U.S.-Russia relations.
March 7, 2018
Give VA Secretary David Shulkin the Boot By Michelle Malkin
Will the VA scandal never end?
March 7, 2018
Voters Favor Prosecuting Mayor Who Warned Illegals About ICE Raid
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf recently warned illegal immigrants in her city of a pending crackdown by federal immigration authorities, and federal officials now say that a number of violent criminal aliens escaped capture and deportation as a result.
March 7, 2018
No Trade Barriers By John Stossel
No, President Trump, it's not true that if you tax imported steel, we "will have protection for the first time in a long while."
March 6, 2018
Americans Favor Raising Age to Buy Gun, Not Enlist or Vote
In the wake of the tragic school shooting in Florida last month, major retailers like WalMart and Dick’s Sporting Goods recently announced that they will no longer sell firearms to anyone under the age of 21.
March 6, 2018
65% Oppose Voting Rights for Felons in Prison
Maine and Vermont are currently the only two states where a convicted felon can vote while he or she is still in prison, but with a new bill introduced in February, New Jersey may soon be added to that list. Most voters don’t feel that’s right, but Democrats and black voters are more receptive to it than others.
March 6, 2018
Tariffs Are Taxes By Lawrence Kudlow
One of the ironies of trade protectionism is that, with tariffs and import quotas, we do to ourselves in times of peace what foreign nations do to us with blockades to keep imports from entering our country in times of war.
March 6, 2018
Why Is the GOP Terrified of Tariffs? By Patrick J. Buchanan
From Lincoln to William McKinley to Theodore Roosevelt, and from Warren Harding through Calvin Coolidge, the Republican Party erected the most awesome manufacturing machine the world had ever seen.
And, as the party of high tariffs through those seven decades, the GOP was rewarded by becoming America's Party.
March 5, 2018
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 March 1.
March 5, 2018
Republicans Like Trump’s Direction; Democrats Want A Change
Ohio Governor John Kasich is joining with Arnold Schwarzenegger to champion a more centrist Republican Party, and Democrats think that’s a great idea. Republicans, however, are sticking with President Trump.
March 5, 2018
Trump’s Full-Month Approval Jumps in February
When tracking President Trump’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results for Trump’s presidency can be seen in the graphics below.
March 3, 2018
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending March 3, 2018
It was just another week in Trumpsylvania, with politics as usual coloring voters’ reactions.
March 2, 2018
Americans Are Ahead of the Game on Taxes This Year
Americans are slightly further ahead in the income tax-filing process than they were at this time a year ago.
March 2, 2018
Fatal Delusions of Western Man By Patrick J. Buchanan
"We got China wrong. Now what?" ran the headline over the column in The Washington Post.
March 2, 2018
Still Saddled with the Politics of the Seventies By Michael Barone
Not since James Monroe left the presidency in 1825, 48 years after he fought in the Battle of Princeton, has America had political leadership with careers running so far back in the past. Our current government leaders have political pedigrees going back to the 1970s.
March 2, 2018
58% Say Florida Shooting Suspect Should Get Death Penalty
Most Americans think the death penalty is a fair punishment if the man accused of killing 17 people during a school shooting in Florida is convicted, and nearly half don’t think, in general, that leniency should be granted to suspected criminals if they are found to be mentally ill.
March 1, 2018
49% View NRA Favorably
In the aftermath of the most recent school shooting in Florida, fewer voters have a positive view of the National Rifle Association (NRA).
March 1, 2018
Trump in 2020?
If the presidential election were held today, President Trump would carry Republicans and unaffiliated voters, but Democrats would reject him in droves.
March 1, 2018
Voters Break Along Party Lines Over New Sanctions on North Korea
President Trump has imposed extensive new economic sanctions on North Korea to discourage that country's development of nuclear weapons. But voters are closely divided over the president's action, with politics as usual coloring the responses.
