What Trump Has Wrought By Patrick J. Buchanan
As Wisconsinites head for the polls, our Beltway elites are almost giddy. For they foresee a Badger State bashing for Donald Trump, breaking his momentum toward the Republican nomination.
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April 5, 2016
April 5, 2016
Are Trump Voters Really Victims? By Michael Barone
What you hear when you listen to many fervent supporters of Donald Trump is that they are victims -- victims of globalization and trade agreements that have sent their jobs to Mexico or China. Victims of competition from illegal immigrants from Mexico willing to work for starvation wages. Victims of a Republican establishment that promised to get rid of lots of things they don't like and then failed to deliver.
April 5, 2016
Should The U.S. Leave NATO?
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump recently referred to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as “obsolete” and questioned why U.S. taxpayers should still be paying heavily to defend Europe and South Korea. But most voters think those long-standing arrangements are just fine.
April 5, 2016
Dangerous Donald Trump by Thomas Sowell
Donald Trump's victories in the Republican primaries may make him seem like a sure winner. But those victories have been achieved by receiving either somewhat less than 40 percent of the votes or somewhat more than 40 percent, but never a majority.
April 4, 2016
26% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-six percent (26%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey for the week ending March 31.
April 4, 2016
GOP Voters Still Support Trump’s Muslim Ban
Support remains high and unchanged among Republicans for GOP front-runner Donald Trump’s controversial proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States.
April 4, 2016
51% of Democrats Oppose Their Party’s Superdelegate System
The presidential primary process to choose the Democratic nominee includes the use of superdelegates, individuals selected by the party who can support any candidate at the party's convention regardless of who wins their state's popular vote. But just over half of Democrats cry foul at the system.
April 2, 2016
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending April 2, 2016
The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan says Donald Trump may be the only one who can beat Donald Trump, and we may be seeing signs of that beginning to emerge.
April 1, 2016
Lock Out the Establishment in Cleveland! by Patrick J. Buchanan
The Wisconsin primary could be an axle-breaking speed bump on Donald Trump's road to the nomination.
April 1, 2016
Obama’s Full-Month Approval Index Reaches Three-Year High
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.
April 1, 2016
Will Britain Leave or Remain in the European Union? By Michael Barone
On June 23, when Donald Trump will or will not have won the 1,237 delegates he needs to be nominated, voters in Britain will decide an issue as divisive as Trump's candidacy: whether the United Kingdom will remain in or leave the European Union.
April 1, 2016
Trump Change: Is ‘The Donald’ Losing His ‘Big Mo’?
Republicans are less certain this week that Donald Trump will be their party’s eventual presidential nominee.
March 31, 2016
Support for State Secession Holds Steady
Despite the continuing anger over the policies of the federal government, another Civil War does not appear to be in the making.
March 31, 2016
Americans Reject Plans to Pay Killers Not to Kill
In an effort to reduce their homicide rates, several major cities including Baltimore, Miami, Toledo and Washington, D.C. are considering a plan to pay criminals not to murder with a gun. Americans overwhelmingly reject that idea.
March 31, 2016
The Electoral College: The Only Thing That Matters By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
We live in a post-factual era. Thanks to the Internet and social media, which mix informed and uninformed views in equal measure, the old rule — that people are entitled to their own opinions but not their own set of facts — no longer applies. Somewhere in cyberspace, you can now find blogs and treatises with “facts” that support your opinions, no matter how bizarre.
March 30, 2016
Most Don't Blame Cops for Shooting Incidents
Despite the continuing debate over police conduct, more Americans than ever say their local officers are doing a good job, and most still don't think cops are to blame for the majority of shootings they are involved in.
March 30, 2016
Are Candidates' Wives Key to a Campaign?
Voters aren’t attaching as much importance to the presidential candidates’ spouses as they did eight years ago.
March 30, 2016
King of the GOP vs. King of Bureaucracy By Charles Hurt
In this brief cessation of hostilities between enemy forces on both sides of the political divide, it is a good time to take stock of where primary voters have taken the two parties.
March 30, 2016
Nuclear Jihad: The Threats Are Inside Our Tent By Michelle Malkin
It's not over. It's never over. After last week's deadly airport and subway bombings in Brussels, the Belgian government remains on high alert for jihad attacks and espionage at its nuclear facilities.
March 30, 2016
Only 31% of GOP Voters Care If Failed Hopefuls Support Nominee
It’s down and dirty time for the GOP. All three remaining Republican candidates refused to say at a CNN town hall last night whether they would support the party’s eventual presidential nominee if they didn’t win.
