40% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty percent (40%) 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 30.
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December 3, 2018
December 3, 2018
Opposition to GM Bailouts Rises With News of Layoffs
General Motors announced last week that it plans to cut more than 14,000 employees in North America. This news makes Americans regret the federal government’s bailout GM received during the Great Recession.
December 3, 2018
Trump's Full-Month Approval Slips From Yearly High In November
When tracking President Trump’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results for Trump’s presidency can be seen in the graphics below.
December 1, 2018
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending December 1, 2018
Ninety percent (90%) of voters were glad when this year’s midterm elections were over. Now after a three-week break, it’s time for Election 2020.
November 30, 2018
Voters Question Value of So Many Democrats Seeking White House
Some have estimated that up to 40 prominent Democrats will enter the race for their party’s 2020 presidential nomination. Even Democratic voters aren’t thrilled by that prospect.
November 30, 2018
Who's to Blame? Weak Leaders, Weak Institutions, Weak Voters? By Michael Barone
In the wake of the off-year elections, conservative analyst Yuval Levin saw no winners. "It is the weakness of all sides, and the strength of none, that shapes this moment."
November 30, 2018
Voters Favor Social Media, Internet Checks For Gun License Applicants
New York is considering a proposal that would require the government to check the social media posts going back three years and the internet searches for the past year of all gun license applicants to look for “any good cause for the denial of a license,” and voters are intrigued by the idea.
November 30, 2018
Is Putin the Provocateur in the Kerch Crisis? By Patrick J. Buchanan
On departure for the G-20 gathering in Buenos Aires, President Donald Trump canceled his planned weekend meeting with Vladimir Putin, citing as his reason the Russian military's seizure and holding of three Ukrainian ships and 24 sailors.
But was Putin really the provocateur in Sunday's naval clash outside Kerch Strait, the Black Sea gateway to the Sea of Azov?
November 29, 2018
Fewer Americans Have Started Holiday Shopping Post-Black Friday
Americans are getting a slower start on their holiday shopping this year than in years past, which may have contributed to the reported lower-than-usual Black Friday sales for stores.
November 29, 2018
Voters, Including Republicans, Think Lame-Duck Sessions Are A Waste
As Republican control of the House comes to an end, even voters in their own party have little faith their congressional representatives will take advantage of these final weeks in the lame-duck session.
November 29, 2018
House 2020: The New Crossover Districts By Kyle Kondik
As of Wednesday afternoon, Democrats appeared likely to hold a 235-200 majority to start the next House, or a net gain of 40 seats, a handful more than it seemed like they had won in the immediate aftermath of the election. A lot of that has to do with the laborious and long vote count in California, where Democrats do better in the votes that are counted later in the process (there’s nothing new or unusual about this, by the way, so please look for conspiracies elsewhere). Earlier this week, engineer T.J. Cox (D) took the lead over Rep. David Valadao (R, CA-21), and as of this point Cox appears to be in the driver’s seat to win.
November 28, 2018
Little Enthusiasm for Cloning Loved Ones
A Chinese scientist claims to have created the world’s first gene-edited twins, altering their genes to theoretically be resistant to HIV infection. Naturally, the news has sparked a moral debate about cloning and genetic modification. Few Americans would want to clone a loved one themselves and think the whole process overall needs government regulation.
November 28, 2018
Few Have Been Hurt by Government Shutdowns
As the lame duck Congress wrestles with the level of federal spending, most voters agree a government shutdown is bad economic medicine, but they also don’t think higher spending is the answer. Very few say they’ve actually been hurt by shutdowns in the past.
November 28, 2018
Silicon Valley Sharia By Michelle Malkin
This is a tale of two young, outspoken women in media.
November 28, 2018
Pro-Smoking Government By John Stossel
E-cigarettes let people get a hit of nicotine without burning tobacco.
November 28, 2018
Americans Are Bullish On Their Local Housing Market
Americans have record confidence in the value of their homes and are more convinced than they have been in years that it’s a good market for home sellers.
November 27, 2018
Homeowner Optimism Still Among Record Highs
As the year is coming to an end, homeowners are more optimistic than ever that their home is worth more than they owe on it, and they expect that value to keep rising through 2019.
November 27, 2018
Voters Not Overly Enthused With the ACLU
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against President Trump’s block on granting asylum to the migrants heading toward the U.S.-Mexico border. While voters overall have a slightly more favorable opinion of the ACLU these days, Republicans and Democrats still remain sharply divided on how they view the group.
November 27, 2018
Trump's Crucial Test at San Ysidro By Patrick J. Buchanan
Mass migration "lit the flame" of the right-wing populism that is burning up the Old Continent, she said. Europe must "get a handle on it."
November 27, 2018
The Recession Myth By Stephen Moore
There's an old saying that Wall Street economists have predicted eight of the last two recessions. The bears in the economics profession keep getting paid a lot of money misreading the nation's economic weather vanes -- whether it was the power and durability of the Reagan expansion in the 1980s, the ferocious bull market of the late 1990s, the after-effects of the 9/11 attacks, or most recently the phenomenal revival of growth in President Donald Trump's first years in office.
