A Besieged Trump Presidency Ahead By Patrick J. Buchanan
After a week managing the transition, vice president-elect Mike Pence took his family out to the Broadway musical "Hamilton."
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November 22, 2016
November 22, 2016
Voters More Comfortable With One-Party Rule Compared to 2008
More than half of voters feel comfortable with the prospect of one party controlling both the Executive and Legislative branches of government, as Republicans will do when Donald Trump enters the White House in January. Democratic voters have changed their tune on this arrangement following Election Day.
November 22, 2016
Backward-Looking 'Progressives' By Thomas Sowell
People who call themselves "progressives" claim to be forward-looking, but a remarkable amount of the things they say and do are based on looking backward.
November 22, 2016
Do Voters Worry Trump Will Bring Too Much or Too Little Change?
He may have been the outsider candidate elected on a promise to “drain the swamp” of Washington, DC, but voters are more concerned president-elect Donald Trump will try to make too many changes than too few.
November 22, 2016
The Not-Yet-Emerging Democratic Majority by Michael Barone
What is to become of the Democratic Party? The world's oldest political party, which traces its roots to 1792, is in as dire straits as it has ever been.
November 21, 2016
33% Say U.S. is Heading in Right Direction, Matching 2016 High
Thirty-three percent (33%) 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 November 17. All five nights included in the survey followed Republican Donald Trump's election as the next president of the United States.
November 21, 2016
Americans Are In A Spending Mood This Thanksgiving
This Friday is Black Friday, often known as the biggest shopping day of the year and an unofficial kickoff to the holiday shopping season. And this year, Americans are ready to shop and spend even more.
November 21, 2016
Voters Show Stronger Support for ‘Kate’s Law’ Sentencing For Illegal Immigrant Felons
Voters appear to be strongly on board with two policies president-elect Donald Trump is calling for when he enters the White House: deporting illegal immigrants convicted of major felonies and mandatory prison sentences for those who try to return.
November 19, 2016
No, Everything is Really Not Going to Be All Right By Ted Rall
After president-elect Donald Trump's 10-15 minute scheduled get-to-know-you with president Barack Obama ran an hour and a half, too many of my friends who ought to know better contacted me with some variant of "maybe everything really is going to be OK after all."
November 19, 2016
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending November 19, 2016
Talk is cheap in politics, so now voters will begin to find out if Donald Trump can deliver on what he promised.
November 18, 2016
Support for Amnesty Is Down, Even With Strict Border Control
Voters think the government needs to do more to control the border but still aren’t sure that’s enough to make them support a path to citizenship for those already here illegally.
November 18, 2016
Is Obama's World a Utopian Myth? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Speaking in Greece on his valedictory trip to Europe as president, Barack Obama struck a familiar theme: "(W)e are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude form of nationalism, or ethnic identity, or tribalism that is built around an 'us' and a 'them' ...
November 18, 2016
Clinton's Dishonesty Costs Her the Midwest -- and the Election By Michael Barone
Hillary Clinton lost the election in the Midwest. Donald Trump won 50 Midwestern electoral votes that went to Barack Obama in 2012 -- Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio -- plus 20 more in Pennsylvania, where the two-thirds of voters beyond metro Philadelphia are Midwestern in culture and concerns. Trump could have lost Florida and still won.
November 18, 2016
Democrats See A Future for Hillary But Want Party to Follow Bernie
Following Hillary Clinton's surprise loss to Donald Trump, most voters think it's time for her to quit the public arena, but her fellow Democrats disagree. Still, Democratic voters now believe their party should go more in the direction of Clinton's primary opponent, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
November 17, 2016
For Working Americans, Staying Put is Best Bet
Half of working Americans expect a raise in the coming year, and they think the best place to get it is where they are employed now.
November 17, 2016
Do Voters Want to Crack Down on Sanctuary Cities?
Voters still support punitive action against so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to enforce immigration laws, although Democrats and unaffiliated voters are more protective of these cities than they have been in the past.
November 17, 2016
16 For ’16 By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley
Now that we’ve had a week to digest the results of the 2016 election, here are some observations about what happened and what the results might tell us about the future:
November 17, 2016
Few Think Government Has Their Best Interest In Mind
The outsider candidate may have won this year’s presidential election, but most voters still don't expect the government to be looking out what's best for them. Republicans are more hopeful than other voters, though.
November 16, 2016
Most Intend to Get A Flu Shot This Year
It’s flu season again, and that’s left most Americans running out to get their flu shots.
November 16, 2016
Voters Don’t See Anti-Trump Protests Going Anywhere
Voters are closely divided over whether the street protests against Donald Trump’s election are the product of genuine concern or just being staged by troublemakers. But most agree the protests won’t achieve anything good.
