Voters Support Trump’s Proposed Spending, Staffing Cuts
Most voters support President Trump’s plan for major spending and staffing cuts in the federal government, but many still worry he won’t shrink the government enough.
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January 25, 2017
January 24, 2017
Most Want to Continue Subsidies to PBS, NPR
President Trump reportedly wants to cut taxpayer funding of PBS and NPR, but most Americans are opposed.
January 24, 2017
Voters Strongly Share Trump’s Criticism of D.C. Establishment
President Trump in his inaugural address charged the Washington, D.C. establishment with long profiting at the expense of the average American, and voters strongly agree.
January 24, 2017
Most Voters Say U.S. President Has Enough Power
America has a new president, and voters are more comfortable than ever with the amount of power he holds.
January 24, 2017
Trump: America for the Americans! by Patrick J. Buchanan
As the patriotic pageantry of Inauguration Day gave way to the demonstrations of defiance Saturday, our new America came into view. We are two nations now, two peoples.
January 23, 2017
38% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-eight percent (38%) of Likely U.S. Voters 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 19.
January 23, 2017
Voters Agree With Trump That America Should Come First
Some media commentators were highly critical of President Trump's use of the phrase "America First" in his inaugural address to describe his trade and foreign policy agenda, but most voters continue to feel that the new commander in chief is on the right track.
January 23, 2017
Donald Trump Rips into Establishment, Pledges to Keep Every Campaign Promise By Charles Hurt
Anybody expecting President Trump to lay down arms and surrender his campaign once he got to Washington and give some kind of soaring inaugural address filled with gauzy political Pablum was sure in for a shocking dose of harsh reality Friday.
January 23, 2017
Trump Pleases His Supporters on Day One in Office
Voters overwhelmingly followed President Trump’s first day in office, but Republicans were a lot happier with it than others were.
January 21, 2017
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 21, 2017
Out with the old, in with the new.
January 20, 2017
Voters Approve of Bible in Inaugural Ceremony
Donald Trump will be sworn in as president of the United States today on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible, the same one used by President Obama for both of his inaugurations. Voters strongly support the longstanding tradition of presidents swearing in on the Bible.
January 20, 2017
Most Plan To Watch Some of Trump’s Inauguration Live
As the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump gets underway, most voters expect to tune in to at least some of it, although nearly half of Democrats say they’ll be tuning it out. With widespread protests planned, just over half of all voters are concerned about Trump's safety.
January 20, 2017
Trump's Inauguration Is Not Without Precedent by Michael Barone
The United States has just had three consecutive eight-year presidencies, and it's only the second time in history that that's happened. The only other such moment came on March 4, 1825, 192 years ago.
January 20, 2017
Please Stop the Fear and Loathing of 2017 By Ted Rall
I admit it: it's hard to find empathy for the liberal Democrats who supported Hillary Clinton and are now shocked, shocked, shocked that that horrible man Donald Trump is about to become president. We lefties kept saying that Bernie would have beaten Trump; now that we've been proven right it's only natural to want to keep rubbing the Hillarites' faces in their abject wrongness.
January 20, 2017
New President, New World By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Don't Make Any Sudden Moves" is the advice offered to the new president by Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations, which has not traditionally been known as a beer hall of populist beliefs.
January 20, 2017
Welcome to Trump’s America
It’s Day One of the presidency that will Make America Great Again or the first day of the presidency of the most unqualified political charlatan in history, depending on whom you talk to.
January 20, 2017
Donald Trump the Revolutionary By Charles Hurt
Not since 1980 — or perhaps 1932 — has such a political revolution hit the banks of the Potomac River.
January 19, 2017
Should Time Between Election and Inauguration Be Shorter?
President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration is still one day away, even though he officially won the presidency more than two months ago. But voters don’t seem to mind the wait.
January 19, 2017
52% View Trump Favorably
Voter attitudes about President-elect Donald Trump have changed little since Thanksgiving, with just over half of voters continuing to give him favorable marks.
January 19, 2017
The End of the Beginning By Larry J. Sabato
Tomorrow marks the start of the brave new world of President Donald J. Trump. But today marks the end of the Obama-to-Trump transition. They, and we, survived the interregnum, more or less — and it was not guaranteed and is worth celebrating.
