41% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-one percent (41%) of Likely U.S. Voters now think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending March 15.
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March 19, 2018
March 19, 2018
Voters Place Importance on Amnesty Over Border Control
When it comes to immigration, voters want to take care of those brought here as children first, then focus on building a wall.
March 19, 2018
Black Voters Like Louis Farrakhan. Everyone Else, Not So Much
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus and a leader of the Women’s March are catching heat after information surfaced that they met with or appeared at events with Louis Farrakhan, a notorious anti-Semite.
March 17, 2018
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending March 17, 2018
Churn in the Trump administration continued apace this week highlighted by a Cabinet-level shift in which President Trump moved CIA Director Mike Pompeo to the State Department as a replacement for ousted Secretary Rex Tillerson, with Deputy Director Gina Haspel replacing Pompeo at CIA.
March 16, 2018
Democrats Should Run On Impeachment By Ted Rall
Democrats are already counting their electoral chickens for the midterms - but their unwillingness to lay out a clear agenda may be about to hand the party their second devastating defeat in two years.
March 16, 2018
For GOP Voters, Pompeo’s Good, But He’s No Tillerson
President Trump tapped CIA Director Mike Pompeo to be his new secretary of State.
March 16, 2018
Is the GOP Staring at Another 1930? By Patrick J. Buchanan
After the victory of Donald Trump in 2016, the GOP held the Senate and House, two-thirds of the governorships, and 1,000 more state legislators than they had on the day Barack Obama took office.
March 16, 2018
Job Market Confidence Hits New Highs
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced last week that 313,000 jobs were created in February and the unemployment rate remained at a 17-year low. Though President Trump’s new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports have some wondering what effect they’ll have on the job market, Americans are more confident than ever that things will only get better.
March 16, 2018
Democrats Can Take the House, if They Just Pick Conor Lamb Over Hillary Clinton By Michael Barone
What if they held a special election and nobody won? That's more or less what happened in southwestern Pennsylvania, in the special election to fill the vacancy in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District.
March 15, 2018
Americans Want News Right, Not First
In today’s 24/7 news cycle, most Americans still think the media is obsessed with getting the story first, when they think they should be focused on getting it right.
March 15, 2018
52% Say Trump Relies Less on Cabinet Than Other Presidents
Following President Trump’s firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, voters remain strongly convinced that a president’s Cabinet plays a critical role in governance, but most also agree that Trump doesn’t use his Cabinet like his predecessors did.
March 15, 2018
Are Republicans In More Special Trouble? By Kyle Kondik
Assessing upcoming House specials in Arizona and Ohio after Lamb’s upset in Pennsylvania
March 15, 2018
Most Worry Tariffs Will Lead to A Trade War
Most Americans fear that President Trump's new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports will trigger a trade war and think it's better for the federal government to mind its own business.
March 14, 2018
70% Say ‘No’ to Slavery Reparations
Congresswoman Maxine Waters constantly calls for President Trump’s impeachment and even suggests she may challenge him in 2020. But few voters think favorably of the California Democrat, and they look even less favorably on her support for slavery reparations for black Americans.
March 14, 2018
Another Party Line Split, This Time On Tariffs
President Trump signed an order last week imposing a tariff on steel and aluminum imports. Most Republicans support the new order, but Democrats give it a thumbs down.
March 14, 2018
Look Homeward, 'Change Agents' By Michelle Malkin
Here is my homework assignment for all the fist-clenching, gun control-demanding teenagers walking out of classrooms this week (and next week and next month) to protest school shootings:
March 14, 2018
Parkland, Florida: One Month Later
Students across the country are planning to participate in the National School Walkout for 17 minutes today to protest gun violence and honor the 17 victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida one month ago today.
March 14, 2018
Lies About Trade By John Stossel
Maybe Donald Trump is such a powerful communicator and pot-stirrer that other countries, embarrassed by their own trade barriers, will eliminate them.
Then I will thank the president for the wonderful thing he did. Genuine free trade will be a recipe for wonderful economic growth.
March 13, 2018
Voters Not Overly Hopeful About Trump/North Korea Summit
President Trump has agreed to meet soon with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, the first time a U.S. president has ever met with the leader of the rogue communist regime.
March 13, 2018
Globalists & Nationalists: Who Owns the Future? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Robert Bartley, the late editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal, was a free trade zealot who for decades championed a five-word amendment to the Constitution: "There shall be open borders."
