29% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-nine percent (29%) 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 June 23.
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June 27, 2016
June 27, 2016
Voters Still Value Cost Reduction Over Universal Health Care Coverage
House Republicans last week unveiled a long awaited proposal for an alternative health care law to replace Obamacare that would, among other things, eliminate the health insurance requirement and aim to reduce health care costs. Most voters still say lowering costs is more important than universal coverage.
June 27, 2016
Most Voters Don't See Love As Answer to Terrorism
Voters like Attorney General Loretta Lynch a lot more than her predecessor Eric Holder but don’t agree with her that love is the best response to terror incidents like the one in Orlando.
June 25, 2016
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending June 25, 2016
Is the “Brexit” vote a sign of things to come? Our polling certainly suggests that most Republicans at least also have had their fill of rule by out-of-touch elites.
June 24, 2016
Mass Shootings are the New Normal. Get Over it By Ted Rall
What is wrong with Americans?
OK, that's a very open-ended question with many potential answers.
June 24, 2016
Voters Question Government’s Focus on Domestic Islamic Terrorism
Following the shooting massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub by a man pledging allegiance to the radical Islamic State group (ISIS), fewer voters than ever think the government gives the right amount of attention to the threat of Islamic terrorism here at home.
June 24, 2016
Trump Pivoting Away From Tabloid-Style Campaigning By Michael Barone
Donald Trump is the latest proof that the campaign always reflects the candidate and that the candidate is a product of his experience over the years. So, as Trump, after clinching the Republican nomination, reshuffles and rejiggers a campaign that has fallen behind Hillary Clinton, it's instructive to look at his political ground zero.
June 24, 2016
Has Trump Found the Formula? by Patrick J. Buchanan
Stripped of its excesses, Donald Trump's Wednesday speech contains all the ingredients of a campaign that can defeat Hillary Clinton this fall.
June 24, 2016
Is Trump Already A Third-Party Candidate?
Events in recent weeks suggest that Donald Trump is already running a third-party candidacy.
June 23, 2016
Do College Campuses Have Less Freedom of Speech Now?
Earlier this month the president of DePaul University announced that he is stepping down following student protests that culminated in the shutting down of a speech by a prominent young conservative writer. The growing number of similar protests at other colleges and universities in recent months has a sizable number of Americans questioning whether free speech has a place on modern campuses.
June 23, 2016
Obama’s Whitewashing of the Orlando Massacre By Charles Hurt
Truly, there is no reserve of cynicism vast enough for decent, freedom-loving Americans to fully comprehend the diabolical motivations of President Obama and the henchmen he has running his administration.
June 23, 2016
Support for More Gun Control Jumps to New High
Support for additional gun control has risen to its highest level ever, but voters are evenly divided over whether more gun buying restrictions will help prevent future shootings like the one in Orlando.
June 23, 2016
The Electoral College: Map No. 2 By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
Some of our readers may recall that the Crystal Ball published its first 2016 Electoral College map at the end of March. It was somewhat controversial — at least judging by many of the reactions we received. As you see below, at that time we projected Hillary Clinton at 347 electoral votes and Donald Trump at 191. While Toss-ups are perfectly reasonable at this stage of the campaign, we decided for clarity’s sake to push every close state one way or the other.
June 23, 2016
White House Watch: Clinton 44%, Trump 39%
Hillary Clinton still holds a five-point lead over Donald Trump in Rasmussen Reports’ latest weekly White House Watch survey.
June 22, 2016
Home Brewers Are Bubbling Up
Craft beer is gaining popularity among American drinkers, and a sizable number now say they brew their own.
June 22, 2016
Horror and Hush-Up in Twin Falls, Idaho by Michelle Malkin
Something wicked happened in Idaho's rural Magic Valley. The evil has been compounded by politicians, media and special interest groups doing their damnedest to suppress the story and quell a righteous citizen rebellion.
June 22, 2016
GOPers Far More Critical of Party Leaders Than Democrats Are
Though there’s been voter anger towards the leaders of both major political parties in this year’s highly contentious presidential primary season, Republican voters are far more likely than Democrats to say their party bosses are out of touch with the voter base.
June 22, 2016
Warning: Labels By John Stossel
When you use a coffeepot, do you need a warning label to tell you: "Do not hold over people"?
June 22, 2016
66% of GOP Voters Think Most Top Republicans Don’t Want Trump to be President
Despite Donald Trump’s record turnout in this year’s primaries, most Republican voters are convinced that their party’s leaders don’t want him to get elected.
June 22, 2016
While Obama Frets Over Islamophobia, Terrorists Get Guns By Charles Hurt
Weeks before killing 49 infidels in Orlando, Omar Mateen walked into a Florida gun store trying to buy body armor and a thousand rounds of ammunition. Suspicious about a Middle Eastern-looking guy jabbering a foreign language into a cellphone, the gun-store clerk denied the man service.
