Do America’s Best Days Still Lie Ahead?
Voters still tend to think America’s best days are already behind us, but a climbing optimism that they’re still to come remains.
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July 29, 2015
July 29, 2015
Is the GOP on the Brink of Civil War?
Senator Ted Cruz voiced the unhappiness of many Republican conservatives when he took to the floor of the Senate last Friday and in a rare intraparty broadside accused GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell of lying. Veteran Republican senators quickly rallied to McConnell’s defense.
July 29, 2015
Is the GOP on the Brink of Civil War?
Senator Ted Cruz voiced the unhappiness of many Republican conservatives when he took to the floor of the Senate last Friday and in a rare intraparty broadside accused GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell of lying. Veteran Republican senators quickly rallied to McConnell’s defense.
July 29, 2015
Governed by Zealots By John Stossel
The government's environmental rules defeat even environmentalists.
July 29, 2015
Obama Cronyism + Your Personal Data = Trouble by Michelle Malkin
It's the most far-reaching scandal in Washington that no one wants to talk about: Tens of millions of federal employees had their personal information hacked as a result of Obama administration incompetence and political favoritism.
July 29, 2015
Bigger Threat - al-Qaeda or ISIS?
FBI Director James Comey recently announced that the radical Islamic State group (ISIS) now poses a bigger security threat to the United States than al-Qaeda does. Americans appear to agree.
July 28, 2015
Is America Entering a New Victorian Era? by Michael Barone
Forty-seven years ago, the musical "Hair" opened on Broadway. Elderly mavens -- the core theater audience then, unlike the throngs of tourists flocking to cheap movie adaptations today -- were instructed that America was entering an "Age of Aquarius." The old moral rules were extinct: we were entering a new era of freedom, experimentation and self-expression.
July 28, 2015
How Likely Is Justice Department Probe of Clinton’s E-mail?
Two federal inspectors general have asked the U.S. Justice Department to open an investigation into how then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handled sensitive information on her private e-mail account. Most voters continue to have national security concerns about Clinton’s behavior but doubt that the federal government will do anything about it.
July 28, 2015
Documented Irresponsibility By Thomas Sowell
People who entered the United States illegally may be called "undocumented" in politically correct circles, but what is all too well documented is the utter irresponsibility of both political parties in dealing with immigration issues
Both Democratic and Republican administrations have left the border with Mexico porous for years -- porous not just for Mexicans but for anybody else, including terrorists from the Middle East.
July 28, 2015
How Do Voters Feel About A 10% Cut in Federal Workers?
Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush last week proposed cutting the number of federal employees by 10% as part of his budgetary assault on what he calls "Mount Washington." Are voters on board?
July 27, 2015
29% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-nine percent (29%) of Likely U.S. Voters now think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey for the week ending July 23.
July 27, 2015
Voters Say Media Obsessed With Political Controversy
Why let the issues get in the way of a good story? That’s still the way most voters see the media’s coverage of presidential politics.
July 27, 2015
Obamacare Still Struggles In Court of Public Opinion
Despite its recent victory in the U.S. Supreme Court, the president’s health care law is still disliked by most voters who expect it to worsen the quality of care and make it more expensive.
July 25, 2015
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending July 25, 2015
Is America declaring war on its past?
July 24, 2015
Conservatism With a Heart? It's Called Socialism. By Ted Rall
American conservatives are staring down the barrel of a future that looks increasingly bleak for them due to two major demographic shifts: The country is becoming more ethnically diverse, and younger voters -- Gen Xers, millennials, and presumably whoever comes next -- are left cold or even repelled by the Republican Party's Christian evangelical base and "social issues," i.e. its obsession over who everyone has sex with. Anticipating their imminent irrelevance, some on the right say it's time to reboot conservatism by bringing it more in line with the increasingly tolerant tone of most Americans on social issues, and by addressing their economic concerns.
July 24, 2015
Voters Aren’t Buying Obama’s Story About IRS Scandal
President Obama told comedian Jon Stewart earlier this week that the Internal Revenue Service didn’t target Tea Party and other conservative groups on his watch and that a lack of funding by Congress was to blame for any problems at the tax-collecting agency. But voters still think something criminal was going on and are even more suspicious of what the president knew about it.
July 24, 2015
Increasingly Divided Democrats Causing Problems for Their Party by Michael Barone
America's two major political parties have a difficult task: amassing a 51 percent coalition in a nation that has always been -- not just now, but from the beginning -- regionally, religiously, racially and ethnically diverse.
July 24, 2015
Look Who's Coddling Denver's Social Justice Jerks By Michelle Malkin
"All cops are bastards!"
"F**k cops!"
"This is what white supremacy looks like!"
On a tranquil Sunday afternoon in Denver, hate-mongering zealots hijacked a rally held by citizens and families of fallen police officers, who had gathered to pay tribute to Colorado's honorable men and women in blue.
July 24, 2015
What Do Voters Think of the Supreme Court Now?
Praise and criticism of the U.S. Supreme Court are inching down again after last month's major rulings on Obamacare and gay marriage, and voters are more likely now to think the court’s ideology skews liberal.
July 23, 2015
Is the U.S. Justice System Fair to Most of Us?
Voters are less likely than ever to think the U.S. system of justice is fair to the majority of Americans. But race remains a big factor in how voters respond.
