43% Are At Least Somewhat Concerned Japanese Radiation May Reach United States
A sizable number of voters now worry that radiation released by the ongoing Japanese nuclear disaster may come to our shores.
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March 16, 2011
March 16, 2011
Deficits, Promises and Destiny By Tony Blankley
In about a month, the Republican majority on the House Budget Committee will present its concurrent budget resolution for fiscal year 2012, which by law will include their proposed 2012 annual budget and their projection of the budgets (spending, revenues and the resulting deficit, surplus or balance) for the following nine years.
March 16, 2011
Just 31% Hold Favorable Opinion of Tiger Woods
It’s been one year since Tiger Woods announced he would make his competitive return to golf following months of tabloid scandal, but Americans’ opinions of the golfer have changed little since then.
March 16, 2011
Last Weekend By Susan Estrich
"Did you have a nice weekend?" a friend asked on Monday, before recounting all the fun things he and his kids did over the weekend.
March 15, 2011
16% View Interior Secretary Salazar Favorably
With gas prices soaring, the pressure's on the Obama administration to increase the number of permits for deepwater oil drilling. Right now, just 16% of Likely U.S. Voters have a favorable opinion of the man who'll grant those permits, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, with a scant one percent (1%) who regard him Very Favorably.
March 15, 2011
26% Say Laying Off 100,000 Federal Workers Would Help Economy, 49% Disagree
Budget worries aside, Americans aren’t prepared yet to abruptly cut the size of the government work force.
March 15, 2011
45% Have Not Filed Income Taxes Yet
With a month to go until tax day, roughly half of Americans have filed their income taxes.
March 15, 2011
Public Employee Union Members More Hostile to Republicans than Private Sector Union Workers
Members of public employee unions prefer Democrats over Republicans on the Generic Congressional Ballot by a 28-percentage-point margin. Among private sector union members, the gap is half that size.
March 15, 2011
SUCCEEDING IN YOUR BUSINESS: Should You Promote Your Business on Groupon? By Cliff Ennico
"Social media" is the buzzword of the moment in online commerce, thanks largely to the success of "The Social Network," a movie about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
March 15, 2011
Obama at Wheel of Father's Oldsmobile By Debra J. Saunders
At Friday's news conference, President Obama tried to connect with the common man coping with rising gasoline prices. Instead, the president left little doubt that he is clueless about cars.
March 15, 2011
11% Say Communism Better Than U.S. System of Politics and Economics
Communism as an ideological force largely died with the collapse of the Soviet Union 20 years ago, but even with many of its horrors increasingly forgotten, U.S. voters overwhelmingly reject the ideology that contended for world dominance for much of the 20th Century.
March 15, 2011
Mother Nature Defeats Best Laid Plans By Froma Harrop
A wall of water now rules our freak-of-nature nightmares. Like the whirling funnel that drops down from the sky, it gives scant warning. But unlike a tornado, it devastates wide swathes of civilization, and there's no tsunami equivalent of a tornado cellar for sitting out the violent weather.
March 14, 2011
Lopez Rates Highest Among New "Idol" Judges
The votes are in, and the new judges on "American Idol" have a fair number of fans so far.
March 14, 2011
Most Voters Still Support Guantanamo Prison, Military Tribunals for Terrorists
President Obama announced as one of his first acts in office that he planned to close the Guantanamo prison camp for terrorists in Cuba, but political and legal complications have brought that effort to a halt. The president announced recently that the facility will remain open indefinitely and that trials of the inmates by military tribunals will resume there. Voters continue to support both decisions.
March 14, 2011
Generic Congressional Ballot: Republicans 46%, Democrats 37%
Republicans hold a nine-point lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot for the week ending March 13, 2011.
March 14, 2011
62% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law
Support for repeal of the national health care law has reached its highest level since May of last year. The number of voters who believe the plan will increase the cost of care has tied its highest level since the law’s passage last March.
March 14, 2011
Only 27% Have Positive View of Government Bailouts
While the economy keeps stumbling along, voters continue to express little confidence in government as the solution.
March 14, 2011
On Libya and Budget, President Obama Votes 'Present' By Michael Barone
In the Illinois legislature, state Sen. Barack Obama voted "present" 129 times. Today, he seems to be voting present on two major issues, Libya and the budget.
March 13, 2011
National Public Racket By Debra J. Saunders
Forget the recent scandals involving National Public Radio. Go back to the days before NPR chief exec Vivian Schiller resigned, before a conservative prankster videotaped NPR fundraisers disparaging tea party participants as "seriously racist, racist people" -- to even before NPR fired senior news analyst Juan Williams after he said on Fox News that he got "nervous" flying with passengers in Muslim garb.
March 13, 2011
3% Say Ivy League Schools Produce Better Workers
Ronald Reagan was the last president we had who didn't graduate from an Ivy League school like Harvard or Yale, and the highest levels of government for much of the nation's history have been filled with Ivy League grads. But that doesn't seem to influence the thinking of most American Adults.
