What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending November 28, 2020
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
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November 28, 2020
November 27, 2020
Hey, Joe! These Are Our Demands By Ted Rall
Progressives and other leftists promise/threaten to pressure/take to the streets to make demands of President-elect Joe Biden if/when he falls short of our expectations. We on the left don't want to be one of those bad bosses who tells you your work isn't good enough but never says what they expect from you in the first place, so you're reduced to fumbling around in the dark.
November 27, 2020
33% Still Plan In-person Black Friday Shopping
With anti-coronavirus restrictions being reimposed in many areas, Americans are less likely to do any in-person Black Friday shopping this year, while online holiday shopping appears ready to edge past last year’s record pace.
November 27, 2020
A Historic Presidency By Patrick J. Buchanan
In the first two decades of the century, President-elect Joe Biden's choice for secretary of state supported U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. He was an ever-reliable liberal interventionist.
November 27, 2020
Republicans Retain a Marginal Advantage in Redistricting By Michael Barone
One of the many big surprises in this month's surprising election was the Democrats' failure to overturn Republican majorities in state legislatures. Various Democratic committees budgeted $88 million to flip majorities in big states such as Texas, Florida and North Carolina. Total gains: zero.
November 25, 2020
Many Still Plan to Travel This Thanksgiving
Health officials have encouraged Americans not to travel this Thanksgiving to prevent a coronavirus surge, but travel plans appear to be down only slightly.
November 25, 2020
COVIDGATE (Part Two): Clinical Trials and Crusader Bias By Michelle Malkin
Participants in Pfizer and Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials can't stop blabbing. The media is overflowing with testimonials explaining "Why I Volunteered" or "What It Was Like To Participate In The Clinical Trial For Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine." Loudmouth liberal writer Molly Jong-Fast publicly begged for beatification:
November 25, 2020
Private Property's Harvest By John Stossel
I'm thankful.
Yes, we've got the pandemic, lockdowns, a worsening deficit, etc.
But we still live in a relatively free country at the most prosperous time in human history.
November 24, 2020
Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index - Week Ending November 19, 2020
With likely new President Joe Biden vowing to undo many of the immigration restrictions imposed by President Trump, the Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of November 15-19, 2020 fell to 96.6 from 102.6 the week before. This is the lowest finding since the Index debuted last December.
November 24, 2020
Most Reject Big Government But Expect Biden to Grow It Anyway
Most voters continue to view big government as a problem and don’t want it, but they strongly suspect that more government and higher taxes are on the way with Joe Biden in the White House.
November 24, 2020
Paris Climate Treaty Puts America Last By Stephen Moore
Here we are in the midst of the second wave of a once-in-a-half-century pandemic, with the economy flattened and millions of Americans unemployed and race riots in the streets of our major cities. And Joe Biden says that one of his highest priorities as president will be to ... reenter the Paris Climate Accord.
November 24, 2020
What Trump Will Leave in Biden's Inbox By Patrick J. Buchanan
Dismissing President Donald Trump's claim that the 2020 election remains undecided, Joe Biden has begun to name his national security team.
November 23, 2020
32% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-two percent (32%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending November 19, 2020.
November 23, 2020
Democrats Like One-Party Rule More Than Others
With Democrats on the brink of one-party rule in Washington, D.C., it’s no surprise that they like the idea a lot more than other voters do.
November 21, 2020
Why Democrats Lost and Will Keep Losing Elections By Ted Rall
Why, Democrats have been asking, do so many poor white people vote for a Republican Party that doesn't care about or do anything for them? The most common reply is: Democrats are snobby coastal elites who talk down to them. Classic example courtesy of former President Barack Obama, who said of voters in the Rust Belt: "They get bitter. They cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations."
November 21, 2020
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending November 21, 2020
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
November 20, 2020
Democrats Are More Enthusiastic About COVID Vaccine Since Biden Won
Democrats are a lot more eager to get the anti-coronavirus vaccine now that it appears Joe Biden will be administering the shot.
November 20, 2020
Is Trump Exiting Afghanistan -- to Attack Iran? By Patrick J. Buchanan
With the Pentagon's announcement that U.S. forces in Afghanistan will be cut in half -- to 2,500 -- by inauguration day, after 19 years, it appears the end to America's longest war may be in sight.
November 20, 2020
Californians -- and Americans -- Reject Racial Quotas and Preferences By Michael Barone
Among the most surprising of the multiple surprising results in this election was California's rejection of Proposition 16. The ballot measure was supported by the Democratic supermajorities in the state legislature; by long-established corporations and Silicon Valley tech firms; by leaders of mainline churches and nonprofit organizations. Some $20 million was spent on its behalf and only $1 million in opposition.
November 19, 2020
61% Think Trump Should Concede to Biden
Most voters now believe President Trump should admit that he lost the election, although they’re less certain their friends and neighbors would agree. They’re more closely divided, however, over whether the Democrats stole the election as Trump contends.
