No one has ever accused Ross Douthat of excessive astuteness. "Donald Trump isn't going to be the Republican nominee," wrote in January 2016. Dude is paid to prognosticate politics. Even so, Douthat probably pulls down six figures at The New York Times, which doesn't grant me the courtesy of a rejection letter. So people pay attention to him.
Voters see a need for tougher gun regulation following the Las Vegas massacre but remain closely divided over whether it would prevent future mass killings.
What was his motive? Why did he do it?
The overall Rasmussen Reports Economic Index for October rose two points to 129.2. Enthusiasm about the economy started to grow immediately following the 2016 presidential election and continues to show the highest level of confidence since this tracking began in 2014.
Almost no one disagrees that our two major political parties, the oldest and third-oldest in the world, have become increasingly extreme and estranged over the past decade. It's a startling contrast with the state of political conflict in the dozen or so years after the fall of the Soviet empire.
There has been a push for schools to offer more nutritional meals to students to fight the childhood obesity problem that most see as a problem today, and more are now convinced that a lunch meeting nutrition standards should be a requirement in schools.
A majority of voters continue to believe the U.S. Supreme Court should abide by the Constitution, but that number dropped to its lowest level in nearly a decade.
The U.S. Senate is a curious, unique legislative body for a lot of reasons. It has arcane rules, such as the filibuster, which limits the passage of most legislative items unless 60 members vote yes. Representation in the Senate is not based on population; instead, each state gets two and only two senators, meaning that California (the most populous state) and Wyoming (the least populous) have equal say in the Senate. Each get 2% of the Senate’s membership — two out of 100 senators — even though California has 12% of the nation’s people while Wyoming only has 0.2%. And unlike the House, where the entire membership is on the ballot every two years, only a third of the Senate’s membership is on the ballot each federal election cycle.
The Supreme Court returned to the bench on Monday, at full-strength for the first time since Justice Antonin Scalia’s death in early 2016. But with his replacement, Justice Neil Gorsuch on the court, voters are now more likely to think the court leans too far right.
Despite the fact that many big-time NCAA basketball programs are now reeling from a recruitment bribery scandal, fewer Americans think college athletic programs corrupt the higher education process. But most continue to believe these programs have too much clout.
Americans appear to be taking the Las Vegas massacre in stride, and most aren’t planning to change their personal habits because of it.
Enough is enough. It's epidemic. It's dangerous. And the time has come to demand its end.
Voters aren't overwhelmed with their own representatives to Congress but are more supportive of them than they have been in years.
The hurricane devastation is severe. What should the federal government do?
Is there no third rail of American politics this president fears? Obviously not.
Congress is working on a proposal that would be the most dramatic overhaul of the U.S. tax code in decades. But most voters don’t think it will happen, and a sizable number believe that’s because of Democrats in Congress.
Much as he did in his command performance before the United Nations, when he took back control of U.S. foreign policy, President Donald Trump has seized and energized the tax cut issue. Almost daily, he is pounding away on the themes of faster economic growth and more take-home pay, arguing that his plan will make America's economy great again.
The NCAA has been rocked by a “pay to play” bribery scandal involving big-time college basketball teams that led to the suspension of Louisville’s head coach last week and an FBI investigation.
"An act of pure evil," said President Trump of the atrocity in Las Vegas, invoking our ancient faith: "Scripture teaches us the Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit."
Twenty-nine percent (29%) 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 September 28.
