Voters Say the Bigger the Government, the More Corrupt
Voters see government corruption as a big problem, getting bigger the higher up in government it gets.
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March 17, 2016
March 17, 2016
Hillary Meter: It’s Clinton’s Race Now
Following big primary wins on Tuesday, Democrats are more certain than ever that Hillary Clinton will be their party’s presidential nominee this November.
March 17, 2016
Voters Fear More Political Violence, Blame Trump
Voters strongly believe candidates should tell it like it is, but most expect an increase in political violence this year, thanks in large part to Donald Trump’s unvarnished populist message.
March 16, 2016
Most Say We Have Less Freedom of Speech
Freedom of speech. It’s the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and for many the most important. But most Americans still feel it’s in danger.
March 16, 2016
Voters Less Pessimistic About War On Terror
Voters aren’t quite as negative about U.S. efforts in the fight against terrorism, but they are more divided than ever when it comes to U.S. involvement in the Middle East.
March 16, 2016
Obamacare's Tax-Time Torment by Michelle Malkin
"Where is my 1095-A? This is what it must be like dealing with a government agency in a third world country."
March 16, 2016
Marco Rubio Is the Tea Party Heartthrob Who Turned Establishment Shill By Charles Hurt
Like the Titanic before it, the U.S.S. Jeb! set sail with such great puffery and fanfare that the passengers on board the gilded ship sipping from champagne flutes were filled with confidence and optimism about the wondrous journey to follow. Quite bullish they were!
March 16, 2016
Political Promises By John Stossel
Democrats trash businesses. But if businesses promised things the way politicians do, the owners would be jailed for fraud. It's not legal to promise more than you can deliver.
March 16, 2016
Titanic Tuesday: Trump Leads but Doesn’t Finish the Job By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
Donald Trump could have generated unstoppable momentum had he won both Ohio and Florida. But now it’s clear to everyone that this will go right through June 7, the end of the Republican primary season.
March 16, 2016
Now What Do the GOP Elites Do?
The problem all along for the Republican elites opposed to Donald Trump is that they have no second act planned, and things just got worse for them after his latest collection of primary wins yesterday.
With Trump now over halfway to the delegate total needed to claim the GOP nomination and roughly 80% of Republican voters expecting him to be their nominee, are the elites going to continue their vicious advertising campaign against the billionaire businessman? Will Mitt Romney be joined by other prominent Republicans on the campaign trail to denounce Trump? At what point will GOP voters begin to wonder whether they – and not Trump – are the ones being opposed by the ostensible leaders of their own party?
March 15, 2016
Is the U.S. President the Most Powerful Man on Earth?
Voters believe more strongly these days that the president of the United States is the leader of the world community and that the level of power he has is appropriate.
March 15, 2016
Brownshirts & Republican Wimps By Patrick J. Buchanan
Friday evening's Donald Trump rally in Chicago was broken up by a foul-mouthed mob that infiltrated the hall and forced the cancelation of the event to prevent violence and bloodshed.
Brownshirt tactics worked. The mob, triumphant, rejoiced.
March 15, 2016
Will the Politics of Nostalgia Trump the Politics of the Future? by Michael Barone
The likely presidential nominee of the Republican Party and the certain (barring indictments) nominee of the Democratic Party have something in common, something more than residences in New York: campaign appeals based on nostalgia.
March 15, 2016
Voting at a Crossroads By Thomas Sowell
It is seldom that the fate of a nation can be traced to what happened on one particular day. But that may be what happens in the United States of America on Tuesday, March 15, 2016.
March 15, 2016
Voters Say Presidential Candidates Follow The Money, Not the Voters
It's no surprise the populist campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have made waves this election season, considering the majority of voters think presidential candidates are more concerned with what their big donors think than with the concerns of the voters.
March 14, 2016
27% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-seven percent (27%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey for the week ending March 10.
March 14, 2016
For the Anti-Trump Forces, It May Be Now or Never By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
As we’ve suggested, the past few weeks have been defined by increasingly-loud talk of a contested convention and the possibility that the presidential contest will go beyond the first ballot, something that has not happened in either party since 1952. The highly unusual circumstances on the Republican side, where the polarizing Donald Trump has finished first in the majority of contests so far and has won more than a third of the delegates he needs for a first ballot nomination, make the outcome impossible to predict with precision at this point.
March 14, 2016
Storm Clouds Darken Over 2016 By Larry J. Sabato
So now it has come to this. A near riot at Donald Trump’s Chicago rally on Friday evening may be a harbinger of things to come, not just at campaign events but in Cleveland for the Republican convention. The city’s leaders were wise to order extra riot gear recently. Whether Trump wins or loses the nomination, we suspect that tens of thousands of unhappy people will show up in the city’s streets.
March 14, 2016
Only 14% Think Americans Are Informed Voters
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz are the latest public officials to question whether U.S. voters are really paying attention. Americans overwhelmingly believe they know the issues when they go to the polls but agree nearly as strongly that everybody else does not.
March 14, 2016
Voters More Unsure About America’s Future As A World Power
No wonder much of the campaign rhetoric this presidential election season has focused on America’s sinking prestige in the world: Voters are now much more uncertain what the future holds for U.S. power, even as they feel more strongly than ever that America is a special place.
