What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 28, 2017
President Trump moved at warp speed through his first full week in office, and voters like what they’re seeing.
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January 28, 2017
January 27, 2017
Most Don’t Think Feds Should Help Fight Local Crime
President Trump this week introduced the possibility of sending federal law enforcement to Chicago if the city fails to stem its rising murder rate, but most voters think the feds should butt out of local crime.
January 27, 2017
To Wall or Not to Wall? Voters Expect Big Cut in Illegal Immigration
Voters are closely divided over whether the United States should build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, but most think it’s likely that President Trump will dramatically cut the number of illegal immigrants entering America.
January 27, 2017
What Trump's Wall Says to the World by Patrick J. Buchanan
"Something there is that doesn't love a wall," wrote poet Robert Frost in the opening line of "Mending Walls."
January 27, 2017
'America First' Is Not a Threat but a Promise By Michael Barone
"From this day forward, it's going to be only America first, America first," Donald Trump proclaimed in his inaugural address. As has been his habit, he added to the prepared text the word "only" and employed the rhetorical device of repetition by repeating "America first."
January 27, 2017
Gallup, Come Back. We Missed You
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.
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.
