Should The U.S. Bail Out Puerto Rico?
Puerto Rico is $72 billion in debt and can't pay its bills, but voters oppose a federal government bailout for the longtime U.S. commonwealth.
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July 10, 2015
July 10, 2015
Of Donuts, Divas and Celebrity Tantrum-itis by Michelle Malkin
There's a regular feature in grocery gossip magazines titled "Stars: They're just like us!" Supposedly "candid" photos show actors and starlets taking out the trash, dropping off their kids at school and walking their dogs to emphasize their Everyday Peoplehood.
July 9, 2015
Is Congress for Sale?
Voters think most members of Congress do a lousy job and probably have sold their vote for cash or to a contributor.
July 9, 2015
How the Media Spins the Immigration Issue
Most voters expect biased media coverage of the 2016 presidential race, and the media response to recent immigration comments by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is a good case in point.
July 9, 2015
How the Media Spins the Immigration Issue
Most voters expect biased media coverage of the 2016 presidential race, and the media response to recent immigration comments by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is a good case in point.
July 9, 2015
Do Voters Want to See Candidate Tax Returns?
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush recently released 33 years of tax returns to the public. Voters want his opponents to follow suit, although most don’t need them to go back as far as Bush did.
July 9, 2015
Democrats 2016: Not Feeling the Bern By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
The Buzz about Bernie has taken hold on the Democratic side of the 2016 campaign, and it’s easy to see why. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is drawing huge crowds and great poll numbers in the first two states to vote, Iowa and New Hampshire.
July 8, 2015
Do Democrats Think Webb Has A Shot?
Former U.S. Senator from Virginia Jim Webb quietly entered the race for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination last week, but voters in his party consider him a longshot.
July 8, 2015
Most Agree with Trump that Illegal Immigration Increases Crime
Donald Trump has taken a lot of criticism from Democrats and other Republican presidential hopefuls over his candid remarks about the criminality of many illegal immigrants, but most voters think Trump is right.
July 8, 2015
Is Your Church Abetting Sanctuary Nation? by Michelle Malkin
The random, heartless murder of a young tourist on San Francisco's Pier 14 by a five-time illegal alien deportee who benefited from the "progressive" city's sanctuary policy has law-abiding Americans, law enforcement officials and political opportunists of all stripes up in arms.
July 8, 2015
Wealth Gap By John Stossel
Nearly 10,000 people turned out to hear Bernie Sanders in Wisconsin. Why? Apparently, many Democrats want socialism.
Sanders is the Vermont senator who is running for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
July 8, 2015
Are Obama’s Overtime Changes Good for the Economy?
Voters appear more supportive of President Obama’s expansion of overtime pay than they were last year, but most also still feel that business owners, not the government, should make the decisions about their businesses.
July 7, 2015
Looking Back by Thomas Sowell
After my 85th birthday last week, I looked back over my life and was surprised to discover in how many different ways I had been lucky, in addition to some other ways in which I was unlucky.
July 7, 2015
Clinton Still Far Outpaces Her Democratic Rivals
Despite the increasing media coverage going to some of her rivals for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton remains hugely ahead as far as the party’s voters are concerned.
July 7, 2015
A Legacy of Cliches By Thomas Sowell
Discussions of racial problems almost invariably bring out the cliche of "a legacy of slavery." But anyone who is being serious, as distinguished from being political, would surely want to know if whatever he is talking about -- whether fatherless children, crime or whatever -- is in fact a legacy of slavery or of some of the many other things that have been done in the century and a half since slavery ended.
July 7, 2015
Voters Even More Confident About Potential for U.S. Energy Independence
Most voters still don't believe the United States is doing all it can to develop its own energy resources, even as more than ever think America can kick its foreign oil dependency.
July 7, 2015
Redistricting Not Worth the Verbal Footwork By Michael Barone
"Words mean what they say," I wrote in my Washington Examiner column one week ago. But, as I added, not necessarily to a majority of justices of the Supreme Court. The targets of my column were the majority opinions in King v. Burwell and Texas Department of Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project.
In King v. Burwell, Chief Justice Roberts interpreted the words "established by the state" in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) as meaning "established by the state or the federal government," even though the law itself defines "state" as the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
July 6, 2015
34% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Confidence in the direction of the country has jumped following the recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions on Obamacare and gay marriage.
Thirty-four percent (34%) 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 2.
July 6, 2015
Most Now Think Terror Makes America A More Dangerous Place
For the first time in over four years, over half of U.S. voters believe that the United States is a more dangerous place than it was before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
July 4, 2015
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending July 4, 2015
Americans continue to rank Independence Day second only to Christmas as the nation’s most important holiday but also express increasing frustration with the government born that day.
The Declaration of Independence, the foundational document that Americans honor on the Fourth of July, says that governments derive their authority from the consent of the governed, but just 25% believe that to be true of the federal government today.
