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January 11, 2017
January 11, 2017
Voters Debate Senate’s Role in Cabinet Selection
Voters are closely divided over whether the U.S. Senate should rubber stamp a president’s Cabinet nominees or pick and choose the ones it likes best. As usual these days, a voter’s political affiliation makes a world of difference.
January 11, 2017
At Sessions’ Hearing, Dems Live Up to the Party’s Tradition of Racism By Charles Hurt
Like tired old racists clinging to their discredited past and divisive politics, Democrats wheezed exhaustively on their racial dogwhistles Tuesday in their increasingly futile bid to derail Sen. Jeff Sessions’ nomination to become the next attorney general.
January 11, 2017
On Fire: The Racist Anti-Racists at MTV News By Michelle Malkin
It's only the second week of 2017, but it's already been a banner year for preening liberals on cable TV who are hell-bent on self-immolation in the name of proving everyone else's moral inferiority.
January 11, 2017
Voters Want a Replacement If Obamacare Is Scrapped
President-elect Trump urged the Republican-led Congress this week to rapidly repeal Obamacare and pass a suitable replacement "very quickly or simultaneously." Few voters support the health care law as is, but most strongly agree with Trump that Congress needs to replace it right away.
January 10, 2017
Many Pass on Medical Checkups, Prescriptions Due to Cost
As Congress and the next president wrestle with what to do with Obamacare, many Americans continue to feel the pinch of high health care costs.
January 10, 2017
Most Voters Now Favor Piece-by-Piece Fix of Obamacare
With a new Congress and a new president intent on repealing Obamacare, more voters than ever are calling for fixing it rather than throwing it out completely. Most expect major changes in the trouble-plagued national health care law in the near future, though.
January 10, 2017
Iran Nuclear Deal -- Alive or Dead? by Patrick J. Buchanan
Though every Republican in Congress voted against the Iran nuclear deal, "Tearing it up ... is not going to happen," says Sen. Bob Corker, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
January 9, 2017
31% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-one percent (31%) 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 5.
January 9, 2017
Voters Think U.S. Intelligence Agencies Play Politics
As the debate over Russian hacking efforts during the presidential campaign continues, voters here generally approve of the job U.S. intelligence agencies are doing but also suspect that they play politics.
January 9, 2017
GOP Voters More Aligned With Trump Than Congress
Most voters share the views of the president and the party coming to power, but Republicans identify a lot more with Donald Trump than with the GOP Congress.
January 7, 2017
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 7, 2017
President Obama’s flurry of last-minute domestic decisions and his foreign policy jabs at Israel and Russia have some complaining that he’s deliberately creating problems for his successor.
January 6, 2017
Why Democrats Will Not Lift a Finger to Fight Trump By Ted Rall
"There's no savior out there." That's a line from "Lord's Prayer," a song written by TV Smith for the Lords of the Church, a band that trafficked in 1980s melodic punk. Here's some more:
January 6, 2017
Most Voters Want Congress to Work With Trump
Voters aren’t sure if the new Congress will be an improvement on the last one, but most want it to cooperate with President Trump as much as possible.
January 6, 2017
Is Liberal Democracy an Endangered Species? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"As we begin 2017, the most urgent threat to liberal democracy is not autocracy," writes William Galston of The Wall Street Journal, "it is illiberal democracy."
January 6, 2017
Government by Faculty Lounge Subject to Repeal By Michael Barone
President Barack Obama went up to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to counsel congressional Democrats on how to save Obamacare. Or at least that's how his visit was billed.
January 6, 2017
Americans Work Longer Hours, Want 'Right to Disconnect'
Most Americans say they work 40 hours or more a week and want their off-duty hours to be free of anything work-related.
January 5, 2017
30% Know A Murder Victim
A surprising number of Americans know someone who has been murdered.
January 5, 2017
57% of Democrats Want Trump to Succeed
Even most Democrats want Donald Trump to succeed as president, but voters are far less confident that things will play out that way.
January 5, 2017
2017: At the Dawn of the Age of Trump By Larry J. Sabato
It’s already clear that the very strange political year of 2016 is bleeding over into the New Year. How could it be otherwise? President-elect Donald Trump, loved and hated by about equal numbers of Americans, continues to ignore or break with convention in a wide variety of areas. Just as the normal rules didn’t apply to him in the campaign, they may not apply to him in office either.
