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America’s gold standard pollster for election season horse-race polling declined to post an entry in 2016’s political derby. The field was poorer for it.
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January 27, 2017
January 26, 2017
83% Say It’s Important to Buy American
Americans strongly believe in buying things made in the U.S.A., and most don't think the government protects domestic businesses enough.
January 26, 2017
Most Applaud End of TPP, Want Changes in NAFTA
Most voters welcome President Trump’s decision to scrap the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) mega-trade deal and agree that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Mexico and Canada needs to be reworked.
January 26, 2017
50% Say There Are Too Many Government Regulations on Business
President Trump this week told business leaders that he hopes to cut regulations on corporations by 75% or more because current regulations “make it impossible to get anything built.” Few voters defend the current level of government regulation.
January 26, 2017
The 2016 Presidential Vote: A Look Down In The Weeds by Rhodes Cook
If Hillary Clinton had won the presidency -- and she took the popular vote by nearly 3 million -- the narrative of the 2016 election would be far different. Rather than the storyline being Donald’s Trump triumph in the heartland, with its beleaguered blue-collar workers, the emphasis now would be on the Democrats’ ongoing success in metro America, with its large share of the nation’s growing minority population. The conventional wisdom would surely be that the Democrats were likely to control the White House for years to come.
January 25, 2017
Drilling Deeper Into Our State Surveys By the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Entertainment Software Association
With the luxury of a little more time since Election Day, we’ve taken a closer look at how we did pollwise relative to 538, RealClearPolitics and Huffington.
January 25, 2017
Voters Divided Over Delay of Cabinet Confirmations
On day five of his presidency, President Trump only has four confirmed Cabinet members, thanks in part to Democratic efforts to delay Cabinet confirmation hearings. Voters are closely divided over the impact of these delays.
January 25, 2017
Ultrasound: The Anti-Science Left's Bugaboo by Michelle Malkin
Abortion extremists are the new Luddites.
January 25, 2017
42% Say Women’s March Will Be Good for Women
A sizable number of voters believe last Saturday’s Women’s March on Washington made its point and will champion women’s rights worldwide.
January 25, 2017
'We Must Think Big and Dream Even Bigger' by Lawrence Kudlow
In all the media back and forth over President Donald Trump's inaugural speech, most have missed a central point: His address was infused with a wonderful sense of optimism.
January 25, 2017
Who Would Deliver Such a Dark, Divisive Inaugural Address? By Charles Hurt
“This was a workmanlike speech. It was short, and he went through it quickly, and it was militant, and it was dark.”
— MSNBC, Jan. 20, 2017
Spring 1865. The president has just delivered his second inaugural address. MSNBC provides live coverage.
January 25, 2017
DeVos SHOULD Have Said By John Stossel
Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, probably survived the grilling she got from angry Democrats last week.
January 25, 2017
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.
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.
