33% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
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 December 15.
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December 19, 2016
December 19, 2016
Voters Leery of Tillerson and His Ties to Russia
Voters still have a lot to learn about the man President-elect Trump has named to the most important Cabinet post, but they worry that his ties to Russia will be bad for the United States.
December 19, 2016
Voters Don’t Expect Trump To Improve Situation in Syria
In keeping with his “America First” approach to foreign policy, President-elect Donald Trump has opposed further U.S. involvement in Syria beyond establishing safe zones to protect civilians there. Voters are still reluctant to get more involved in Syria despite the recent carnage in Aleppo but also aren’t convinced Trump will make the situation any better.
December 17, 2016
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending December 17, 2016
The Electoral College is on track to count its votes on Monday, and then it will be official: Donald J. Trump will be the next president of the United States.
December 16, 2016
The Democratic Party's Last Chance By Ted Rall
Democrats need to stop grasping at straws.
Shocked by Trump's win and dismayed at his half billionaire, half military junta cabinet, liberals are thrashing about in the stinking waters of dying American democracy, hoping against hope for something -- anything -- to stop Trump from becoming president.
December 16, 2016
Trump Breaks Even in Job Approval
It’s a 47-47 nation, according to Rasmussen Reports’ first job approval survey on President-elect Donald Trump.
December 16, 2016
Lessons of Aleppo -- for Trump By Patrick J. Buchanan
In this world, it is often dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, said Henry Kissinger in 1968, but to be a friend is fatal.
The South Vietnamese would come to appreciate the insight.
December 16, 2016
Fewer Voters Say Russia Is America’s Friend In Fighting ISIS
President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly cast Russia as potential ally in the fight against the radical Islamic State group (ISIS), contrary to the Obama administration's view that the Russians are an obstacle to its hopes of overturning the regime of Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad. U.S. voters are showing a bit more skepticism these days about which side Russia is really on.
December 16, 2016
What's Trump up to on Foreign Policy? by Michael Barone
What is President-elect Donald Trump up to on foreign policy? It's a question with no clear answer. Some will dismiss his appointments and tweets as expressing no more than the impulses of an ignorant and undisciplined temperament -- no more premeditated than the lunges of a rattlesnake.
December 15, 2016
Voters More Supportive of Pulling Troops Out of Europe
Voters still think the United States needs to spend more on defense, but they’re also more inclined to pull U.S. troops out of Europe if the countries there don't meet their fair share of the costs.
December 15, 2016
39% Blame Outside Factors for Clinton's Loss
In the aftermath of one of the most stunning electoral upsets in U.S. history, Democrats have been searching for reasons why their candidate Hillary Clinton lost to Republican Donald Trump. Most voters agree it was the candidates themselves who decided the election, but a sizable number blame Clinton's loss on outside factors, primarily the FBI’s pre-election announcement that it was reopening its investigation of her.
December 15, 2016
Incumbent Reelection Rates Higher Than Average in 2016 By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
With Republican Sen.-elect John Kennedy’s triumph in the Louisiana runoff last weekend, victories by two other Republicans in Louisiana House races, and Gov. Pat McCrory’s (R) concession last week to Gov.-elect Roy Cooper (D) in North Carolina, the winners of 2016’s House, Senate, and gubernatorial races are now set. This allows us to do a little housekeeping. Kennedy’s win confirms that this is the first cycle in the history of popular Senate elections that every state that held a Senate election in a presidential cycle voted for the same party for both president and for Senate (34 for 34 this year). Also, finalizing these results permits us to give a final assessment of our down-ballot Crystal Ball projections for 2016: We picked 32 of 34 Senate races correctly, along with 10 of 12 gubernatorial races and 428/435 House races.
December 15, 2016
Voters Forecast Less Business for Trump
Even his fellow Republicans aren’t buying. It looks right now like Donald Trump’s organization is likely to lose business because of his election as the next president of the United States.
December 14, 2016
Americans Want Christmas in Schools
Americans still strongly believe Christmas should be honored in public schools and should have a place on public land.
December 14, 2016
Democrats See Russia as Election Culprit, Others Don’t
Democrats, still searching for a reason for Hillary Clinton’s surprise defeat, now blame the Russians, but other voters don’t see it that way.
December 14, 2016
A New Victim in the War on Small-Biz Bakeries By Michelle Malkin
It is not enough for family-owned pastry shops to bow to the gay marriage mob. Now, they're being targeted by the social justice mafia.
December 14, 2016
Skating to Freedom by John Stossel
My last Fox Business Network TV show airs Friday.
December 14, 2016
All the Fake News That’s Fit to Print! By Charles Hurt
Long after the rest of America gave up on the mainstream media, the Old Gray Lady has finally discovered the fake news we have complained about for decades. And as with most things, The New York Times takes it to a level and sophistication that is the envy of the establishment media firmament.
December 14, 2016
Americans Are Decking The Halls
Americans appear to be in more of a decorating mood this holiday season than ever before.
December 13, 2016
Where Are We? By Thomas Sowell
We are now in a kind of political no-man's-land between an administration on its way out and a new administration taking shape. Predictions are always risky -- and nowhere more so than in times like these.
