Is Trump Calling Out Xi Jinping? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Like a bolt of lightning, that call of congratulations from Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to President-elect Donald Trump illuminated the Asian landscape.
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December 6, 2016
December 6, 2016
More Voters Think Regulation Good for Big Businesses, Bad for Small Ones
President-elect Donald Trump promised during the campaign to reduce government regulations on business. Most voters agree that government regulations tend to hurt small businesses more and that large companies take advantage of the political system, but a growing number of voters think regulations are the best way to keep big businesses in check.
December 6, 2016
Ditching Electoral College Would Allow California to Impose Imperial Rule on a Colonial America by Michael Barone
They're still counting the votes, going on four weeks after the election, in California. In Brazil, a nation with much more challenging geography, they manage to do it in five hours.
December 5, 2016
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 December 1.
December 5, 2016
Rasmussen Reports Calls It Right
Rasmussen Reports told you all along that it was a much closer race than most other pollsters predicted. We weren’t surprised Election Night. They were. Now Real Clear Politics has posted the final results, and look who came in second out of 11 top pollsters who surveyed the four-way race.
December 5, 2016
Voters Say Trump Better for Small Business, Too Close to Big Business
Voters see President-elect Donald Trump as an improvement over President Obama when it comes to the handling of small business issues but are worried that he’ll be too chummy with big business.
December 5, 2016
Voters Expect Trump to Move Supreme Court to the Right
Voters put a lot of stock in the selection of the next U.S. Supreme Court justice this election cycle , and most believe President-elect Donald Trump will nominate justices who are strict constitutionalists. They are more divided as to whether Trump’s nominees will be too conservative or about right politically.
December 3, 2016
Clinton Lost. Should We Care? by Ted Rall
If Jill Stein and die-hard Democrats get their way, recounts in three key states will take the presidency away from Donald Trump and hand it to Hillary Clinton. While this effort is probably doomed to failure, the attempted do-over prompts a question: what exactly are we losing with this mother of all paths not taken, a Hillary Clinton administration?
December 3, 2016
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending December 3, 2016
The Donald Trump show has been playing in at least three different cities this past week, while the rest of the nation watches with anticipation.
December 2, 2016
Obama’s Approval Holds Steady in Post-Election November
When tracking President Obama’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics below.
December 2, 2016
Voters Say Trump Better Than Obama for Jobs
On the heels of President-elect Trump’s announcement that Carrier will not be leaving Indiana for Mexico, voters predict Trump will be a better jobs president than the man he is replacing.
December 2, 2016
Fake News and War Party Lies By Patrick J. Buchanan
"I have in my possession a secret map, made in Germany by Hitler's government -- by the planners of the New World Order," FDR told the nation in his Navy Day radio address of Oct. 27, 1941.
December 2, 2016
Most Favor Death Penalty for Charleston Church Shooter
Jury selection is underway in the federal trial of Dylann Roof who stands accused of the shooting deaths of a pastor and eight parishioners in a black Charleston, South Carolina church last year. Most Americans believe Roof deserves the death penalty if found guilty.
December 2, 2016
Donald Trump and the Outstate Midwest Redraw the Partisan Lines by Michael Barone
Would any Republican besides Donald Trump have beaten Hillary Clinton and been elected the 45th president? It's an interesting question, not susceptible to a definitive answer but with consequences for politics going forward.
December 1, 2016
The Internet's Where It's At For Holiday Shoppers
Has Cyber Monday taken the place of Black Friday?
December 1, 2016
Most Expect Major Action in Trump’s First 100 Days
Most voters expect big things from President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican Congress right from the start but aren’t quite as optimistic as when Barack Obama and Democrats took full charge in 2009.
December 1, 2016
Did ‘Fake News’ Sway The Election?
Still struggling to explain Donald Trump's surprise victory, Hillary Clinton and many of her supporters first blamed FBI Director James Comey. In recent days, some have turned to what they are calling "fake news" on social media sites, insisting that the deliberate spread of false information may have been a deciding factor.
December 1, 2016
In 2016’s Game of Musical Chairs, the Music Stopped at the Wrong Time for Clinton By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
After the Bay of Pigs debacle, when U.S.-backed forces tried and spectacularly failed to topple Fidel Castro’s nascent communist regime in Cuba, President John F. Kennedy held a press conference and took blame for the failure. Speaking on April 21, 1961 — just a few months into his presidency — JFK memorably declared, “There’s an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan,” meaning that when something goes right, many will want to take credit for it, but when something goes wrong, no one wants to take the blame.
November 30, 2016
Americans Rate Race Relations Even Worse in Government
Confidence in U.S. race relations hit an all-time low earlier this year, but Americans think they’re even worse in politics and government. However, most don’t think Americans are inherently racist.
November 30, 2016
Justin Trudeau: Baby-Faced Commie Apologist Unmasked by Michelle Malkin
Wasn't one vapid pretty boy named Justin from Canada enough?
