Gingrich, Carson Are Early GOP Veep Favorites
Republicans feel even more strongly than other voters that their party’s vice presidential nominee is key to their vote this year, and Ben Carson and Newt Gingrich are early favorites for the job.
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May 16, 2016
May 16, 2016
Should Women Candidates Be Treated Differently?
It's been said over the years that male political candidates need to be careful how they campaign against female opponents to avoid the appearance of bullying or sexism, but voters strongly disagree.
May 14, 2016
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 14, 2016
Republicans tried to make nice this week, while Bernie Sanders prolonged Hillary Clinton’s electoral agony with a win in West Virginia. But voters are already focused on November.
May 13, 2016
Would Biden Have Been The Best President?
Vice President Joe Biden in a recent interview said he “would have been the best president” had he chosen to run in 2016, but most voters disagree.
May 13, 2016
Will the Trump Nomination Change Our Polarized Partisan Patterns? By Michael Barone
An irresistible force meets an immoveable object.
The irresistible force is the sense of discontent with how things have been going during this young century. Americans are displeased with a sluggish economy that fell into a deep recession and with foreign policies that seem to have produced disappointing results.
May 13, 2016
Hillary Meter: Voters Say Clinton Still On Course for Nomination
The media may portray Bernie Sanders as a continuing political threat to Hillary Clinton, but voters aren’t buying:
They remain overwhelmingly convinced that Clinton is the likely Democratic presidential nominee for 2016.
May 13, 2016
Trump or Ryan: Who Speaks for GOP? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"No modern precedent exists for the revival of a party so badly defeated, so intensely discredited, and so essentially split as the Republican Party is today."
May 12, 2016
Americans Are More Supportive of Home Pot Use
Despite increasing moves to legalize marijuana around the country, Americans remain closely divided on the issue but are in a less punishing mood about use of the drug.
May 12, 2016
Clinton vs. Trump – Whom Do Voters Expect to Win?
Ask voters who is likely to be the next president of the United States, Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, and it’s very close. Unaffiliated voters give the edge to “The Donald.”
May 12, 2016
Vice Presidential Selection: How Much Does It Matter This Year? By Larry J. Sabato
When a presidential campaign wants to signal that it is turning from the nomination clash to the general election, “sources close to the campaign” make it known the Veep search has begun. Right on schedule, as Donald Trump has become the Republican nominee-presumptive and Hillary Clinton has maintained an unassailable mathematical lead on the Democratic side, both campaigns have reportedly hinted that they have started to vet possible vice presidential options.
May 12, 2016
Should The Democratic Party Be More Like Clinton or Sanders?
The unexpected success of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential campaign has exposed the growing rift between the Democratic party establishment and the party’s more progressive wing. Still, Democratic voters are more likely than voters in general to think their party should identify with its presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton.
May 11, 2016
Americans Are Less Confident in Their Auto Airbags
Following several airbag recalls for major automakers, Americans are slightly less trusting of the airbags in their cars.
May 11, 2016
Free-Market Medicine By John Stossel
President Obama's proudest accomplishment is increasing the number of Americans with health insurance. A better idea would be to help people escape government care altogether.
May 11, 2016
What America Thinks About the Transgender Bathroom Debate
A legal battle is escalating between the U.S. Justice Department and North Carolina over the state’s bill that would ban individuals from using public restrooms that do not correspond to their biological gender. The Justice Department has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the state claiming the new law discriminates against transgender individuals, but North Carolina officials, arguing that their bill is a common-sense safety measure, have countered with a suit arguing the federal government is exceeding its authority.
May 11, 2016
Twitter's Traitors By Michelle Malkin
Social media giant Twitter's got 99 problems, yet the politically correct company is far more worried about the "optics" of cooperating with federal agents trying to stop jihadist plotters online.
May 11, 2016
Pee Free or Die! Obama and Lynch Rely on Distorted Lens of Racism By Charles Hurt
The economy is gasping, the world shudders in violence, invaders heave across our southern border, and despair is etched on the faces of the American people. So, in the final year of his reign, what does our great Prophet of Hope and Change give us?
Bathroom liberation. Pee free or die! Equality before the commode!
May 11, 2016
Do Voters Care What Ryan Thinks About Trump?
House Speaker Paul Ryan, the most powerful Republican in Congress, says he’s not ready to endorse the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump. The two are scheduled to meet tomorrow in hopes of working things out, but most voters don’t care much whether they do or not.
May 10, 2016
Most Still Oppose Syrian Refugees, Cite National Security Risk
The Obama administration reportedly is speeding the vetting process for Syrian refugees so 10,000 can come to the United States this year, but most voters still don’t welcome those newcomers and fear they are a threat to the country.
May 10, 2016
Looking Back on the Two Cuban-American Also-Rans By Michael Barone
John Quincy Adams, our greatest secretary of state (sorry, Hillary Clinton fans), thought that Cuba would inevitably become part of the United States. It hasn't, at least not yet, but two Cuban-Americans were serious presidential contenders this year.
May 10, 2016
Dry Rot in Academia By Thomas Sowell
Jason Riley has now joined the long and distinguished list of people invited -- and then disinvited -- to give a talk on a college campus, in this case Virginia Tech.
