Favorable Ratings For Speaker Boehner Slip
The honeymoon period may be over for House Speaker John Boehner with his favorable marks falling sharply from last month's high.
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Most Voters Still Feel Tax Cuts, Less Spending Will Help Economy
Voters continue to believe tax cuts and decreases in government spending will benefit the nation’s economy. But most also still think government spending will go up under the Obama administration.
April 30, 2011
Thanks, Charlie By Susan Estrich
Charlie Sheen is starting a new charity, and his new charity's first priority is to raise money for the Giants fan who was beaten up at Dodger Stadium.
April 30, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending April 29, 2011
The names have it. At this stage of the presidential campaign process, name-recognition is what it’s largely all about.
April 29, 2011
50% Favor Title IX, 38% Say It's Been Good for College Sports
The New York Times reports that in an effort to satisfy federal Title IX legislation many Division I colleges are making questionable moves to make it look as if they are offering more spots on sports teams to women. Half of Americans support Title IX, but adults strongly oppose the government requiring colleges to match the percentage of women athletes to the number of women on campus.
April 29, 2011
Bachmann Leads GOP Dark Horse Pack
What if they held a Republican Primary contest and the front-runners didn’t show up? Or what if voters look for anybody but the front-runner? How do primary voters view the dark horses who are possible contenders for the party’s 2012 presidential nomination?
April 29, 2011
44% Say Fed Press Conferences Good for Economy
Ben Bernanke held the first-ever press conference by a chairman of the Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday and plans even more. Many voters think this increased transparency by the nation's chief banker will be beneficial to the economy, although they still have mixed feelings about Bernanke himself.
April 29, 2011
Romney, Christie Neck-and-Neck Among GOP Primary Voters If Some Big Names Don’t Run
In the past few days Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump have both removed their names from consideration for the 2012 GOP Presidential nomination.
April 29, 2011
A Generation of Termites? By Joe Conason
The aging of the baby boom generation has not improved its reputation. Having brought immense positive change to this country, the postwar population wave is frequently castigated as a self-seeking and even selfish cohort by members of the generations that have followed, who worry that those nearing retirement will cost too much to maintain amid dimming economic prospects.
April 29, 2011
2012 Presidential Nominating Process: It's Time for The States By Rhodes Cook
The two major parties have done their job in terms of setting the parameters for the 2012 presidential nominating process. Now, it is time for the states to fill in the blanks. And what they do in that regard over the next few months could go a long way in determining who wins next year's Republican presidential nomination.
April 29, 2011
What Fuels Presidential Approval? By Isaac Wood
With gas prices soaring as summer vacations near, many optimistic Republicans and nervous Democrats are left wondering about what impact those prices will have on President Obama's reelection chances. High gas prices, they point out, sank Jimmy Carter in 1980 and added to the baggage George W. Bush passed on to Republican nominee John McCain in 2008.
April 28, 2011
58% Say There's Too Much Media Coverage of Royal Wedding
Tomorrow, Prince William of England will marry Catherine Middleton in what some are calling “the wedding of the century.” But stateside a majority of Americans think the media is paying too much attention to the royal wedding.
April 28, 2011
76% See China as Bigger Economic Threat Than Military One
The International Monetary Fund has now projected that China will surpass the United States as the world's number one economy by 2016, and Americans overwhelmingly believe China represents a bigger threat to America economically than militarily these days.
April 28, 2011
National GOP Primary Poll: Trump 19% Romney 17% Huckabee 15%
Republican primary voters at this early stage of the game now give billionaire developer Donald Trump the edge over presumptive favorites Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee in the race to be the GOP’s presidential nominee in 2012.
April 28, 2011
Is the New Walmart New Enough? By Froma Harrop
I found this quote, buried in a news story about rising prices in China:
"I hear that many Chinese exporters are rejecting orders from Walmart and other Western retailers," said Dong Tao, an economist for Credit Suisse in Hong Kong. "I've been covering the Chinese economy for a long time, and I've never heard that before."
April 28, 2011
Happy Birth Certificate, Mr. President By Debra J. Saunders
Behold the damage Donald Trump hath wrought. Every credible fact check has established that Barack Obama was born in this country. Yet on Wednesday, a reality TV show ringmaster forced the president of the United States to prove it.
April 28, 2011
Americans Still Oppose Ban on Hate Speech
Adults nationwide may believe hate is growing in America, but that doesn’t mean they want the government interfering with free speech.
April 28, 2011
Barbour's Withdrawal Gives No Clues to GOP 2012 Nominee By Michael Barone
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour's abrupt withdrawal from the race for the Republican presidential nomination -- after hiring a topnotch New Hampshire campaign manager and planning to fly around the country next week -- has naturally inspired a lot of punditry on the Republican presidential race.
April 27, 2011
21% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction, A New Low
Twenty-one percent (21%) of Likely U.S. Voters say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, April 24. It's the fourth week in a row that the measurement has gone down, with confidence in the nation's course now reaching the lowest point of the Obama presidency.
April 27, 2011
22% Say England Should Abolish Monarchy, 51% Disagree
As England prepares to celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, most Americans think the British royal family is a good thing for its country.
