The national party conventions will make official over the next two weeks what we already know: The presidential race is Democrat Barack Obama versus Republican John McCain. Senator versus senator, youth versus age, experience versus “change.”
Illinois Senator Barack Obama has selected Delaware Senator Joe Biden to be his Vice Presidential Running Mate. While the suspense was maintained until nearly the last minute, Biden had been the frontrunner all week.
Political courage is not about standing up for what's easy and popular with the people who elect you. It's about standing up for what you believe in.
Former Presidential hopeful and Delaware Senator Joe Biden is the frontrunner in the Democratic Vice Presidential sweepstakes. Indiana Senator Evan Bayh is a distant second.
With energy policy at the center of the current presidential campaign, voters believe electric or hybrid cars and nuclear power plants are more likely than solar or wind power to significantly reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil. Biofuels such as ethanol are seen as even less likely to help.
For the first time in memory, the two parties are holding their conventions right after one another. Within 72 hours of Obama's acceptance speech on the night of Aug. 28, in front of 75,000 adoring fans outdoors at Invesco Field, the Republican convention's opening gavel will come crashing down.
Despite being upset by the New York Giants in last year’s Super Bowl, the New England Patriots are still considered likely to win the championship this year, according to fans. The latest survey of 620 football fans found that 16% think Tom Brady’s Patriots will take home their fourth championship trophy since 2001.
A growing majority of Americans believe that gaining control of the border is more important than legalizing illegal immigrants, and three out of four (74%) say the government is not doing enough to make that happen.
In politics, everyone wants to be seen as a mudslinging virgin -- who, like King Lear, is "more sinned against than sinning." Toward that end, Democrats have crafted the conceit that Republicans are attack dogs, while Democratic candidates are not sufficiently ruthless. After years of calling President Bush every name in the book, the left nonetheless manages to see itself as the victim in the smear game.
Forty-five percent (45%) of U.S. voters are very concerned about the safety of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons following the resignation of the country’s president, Pervez Musharraf, on Monday, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Forget the Olympics. Political junkies are in the convention pre-season. As we approach the Democratic National Convention on August 25 to 28 and the Republican National Convention on September 1 to 4, analysts just want to know one thing: How big are the bounces?
The Democrats have marginally widened their lead over the GOP in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that, if given the choice, 46% of voters would choose their district’s Democratic candidate, while 36% would choose the Republican candidate.
Eighty-five percent (85%) of adults are at least somewhat concerned about inflation these days, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Nearly half of U.S. voters (49%) think it is at least somewhat likely that Hillary Clinton will overshadow the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee Barack Obama at the party’s national political convention next week. Twenty-three percent (23%) say it is Very Likely.
After hearing her name placed in nomination at the Democrats' convention next week, Hillary Clinton will no doubt urge her followers to support Barack Obama. What good that gesture will do for the Obama candidacy remains to be seen.
While confusion continues to reign in Georgia as to Russia’s intentions there and NATO prepares to get into the act, 50% of Americans believe the United Nations should send peacekeepers to the region, but only 22% say U.S. troops should be involved.
Senator Tom Coburn is unknown to most Americans, but the strange workings of the Senate Select Committee on Ethics could end up making the Oklahoma Republican far more popular than he is today.
There were more troubling numbers for the news media this week, as voters nationwide continue to tell us that trust is an issue as far as journalists are concerned.
Last week, the two erstwhile communist superpowers were in the spotlight. Starting on Aug. 8, China staged the Olympics -- an event on the schedule for years. Also on Aug. 8, Russia invaded the independent republic of Georgia -- which apparently caught our government flatfooted.
Hillary and Bill have hijacked the Denver convention, making it into a carbon copy of what it would have looked like had she won until the last possible moment. By the time Obama gets up to speak and put his stamp on the convention, Hillary will have had one prime time night all to herself. Bill will have pre-empted a second night. Hillary will have had all the nominating and seconding speeches she wants. And the roll call of the states would record, in graphic detail, how the voters of state after state rejected Obama’s candidacy in the primaries.
