Just 44% Now Expect Their Home To Be Worth More in Five Years
Homeowners are more pessimistic about the short-term housing market, but now fewer than half the nation's homeowners expect the value of their homes to go up in the next five years.
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March 17, 2011
March 17, 2011
Golf, Cocaine and Budget Talk By Debra J. Saunders
Grover Norquist, the affable head of the Washington-based Americans for Tax Reform, doesn't want Republicans to negotiate with Democrats to solve Washington's deficit problems or to cut a deal to solve California's budget shortfall.
March 17, 2011
The Framers Never Imagined a New Hampshire Primary By Michael Barone
The weakest part of our political system is the presidential nomination process. And it's not coincidental that it's the part of the federal system that finds least guidance in the Constitution.
March 17, 2011
40% Still Support New Nuclear Plants In U.S., 38% Oppose
Voters are now evenly divided when asked if more nuclear power plants should be built in this country.
March 16, 2011
22% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction, Lowest of Obama's Presidency
Just 22% of Likely U.S. Voters say the country is heading in the right direction, the lowest level of confidence found since before President Obama’s inauguration in January 2009.
March 16, 2011
Ohio State, Duke Favorites to Win NCAA Tournament
March Madness is underway and two teams are in a virtual tie as the pick to win the NCAA tournament among college basketball fans.
March 16, 2011
64% Say Middle Class Americans Pay the Largest Share of Their Income in Taxes
Most Americans continue to believe the middle class pays more in taxes than those who are wealthy, and they favor an income tax system where everyone pays the same percentage of their income.
March 16, 2011
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.
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.
