Voters Think FEMA, Feds Doing Good Job With Harvey Response
Hurricane Harvey has devastated the Houston, Texas area, with more still to come. But voters are happy with the emergency response so far.
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August 31, 2017
August 31, 2017
GOP Voters OK With Trump Criticism of Republican Senate
Republican voters approve of President Trump’s criticism of GOP senators. Democrats don’t.
August 31, 2017
The Politics Of Disasters By Kyle Kondik and Geoffery Skelley
Throughout the first 200-plus days of Donald Trump’s presidency, it’s been common for analysts to say he is struggling through sub-40% approval ratings despite not having to reckon with a major non-scandal crisis. Whether that was true before last weekend is debatable -- do North Korea’s provocations count? -- but it’s almost certainly not true now after Hurricane Harvey struck Houston and southeast Texas.
August 30, 2017
Kaepernick Hiring Has No Impact on NFL Viewing Habits
Former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is still not currently signed to any professional team as the football season gets under way. But whether he is signed to a team this season will have little impact on Americans tuning in for NFL games.
August 30, 2017
Keith Ogre-mann: Conde Nast-y's Misogynist-in-Chief By Michelle Malkin
Once a woman-hating blowhard, always a woman-hating blowhard.
August 30, 2017
Voters Don't Think Too Highly of House, Senate
Few voters give members of the House of Representatives and Senate high marks on their job performance. But Republicans aren’t quite as skeptical.
August 30, 2017
There Are No Decent Plans in Congress, Just Lies, Intraparty Squabbling By Charles Hurt
We are witnessing some of the most spectacularly absurd political gambits in American history unfold right now before our very eyes.
The first comes from Democrats in Congress, who want to somehow blame collapsing Obamacare on Republicans.
August 30, 2017
Democratic Support for Bipartisan Government Continues to Grow
Voters are fully aware that the Republicans run both the House of Representatives and Senate these days, but they’d prefer a two-party rule. Most Democrats agree, but Republicans, unsurprisingly, want to keep the status quo.
August 30, 2017
Price Gouging By John Stossel
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is upset about "price gouging" during hurricane Harvey. Some stores raised prices to $99 for a case of bottled water -- $5 for a gallon of gas. "These are things you can't do in Texas," he says. "There are significant penalties if you price gouge in a crisis like this."
August 29, 2017
Voters Are Strongly Divided Over Media’s Role in Dividing Us
Voters admit America is a more divided place these days, and Trump supporters overwhelmingly agree with the president that the media is to blame. But Trump opponents just as strongly disagree.
August 29, 2017
Most Feel Bad About Modern Children's Lives
Most Americans continue to think children are worse off these days.
August 29, 2017
Can the GOP's Shotgun Marriage Be Saved? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Wednesday morning, Nov. 9, 2016, Republicans awoke to learn they had won the lottery. Donald Trump had won the presidency by carrying Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. All three states had gone Democratic in the last six presidential elections.The GOP had won both houses of Congress. Party control of governorships and state legislatures rivaled the halcyon years of the 1920s.
August 28, 2017
29% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
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 August 24.
August 28, 2017
72% Say Politicians Talk Race To Get Votes
The issues of race and politics are in the news after officials in cities across the country are calling for Confederate monuments to come down. But most voters think politicians aren't sincere when it comes to their motives for raising racial issues.
August 28, 2017
Most Americans Think 11-16 is Appropriate Age to Get a Cell Phone
Parents across the country are being urged to sign a “Wait Until 8th” pledge to not buy their children a smartphone until eighth grade.
August 26, 2017
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending August 26, 2017
The battle over America’s history is likely to grow even more heated in the months ahead, with one side arguing that we can learn from the mistakes of the past and the other intent on erasing the parts they don’t like.
August 25, 2017
Americans Say Media Identifies With Protesters, Trump With Police
Voters thought President Obama identified more with the protesters in places like Charlotte and Baltimore when they challenged the police.
August 25, 2017
Most Still Give High Marks to Their Kids' Schools
As parents gear up to send their children back to the classroom, most still think highly of their local schools but not nearly as much as they did a year ago.
August 25, 2017
Trump's Palmerstonian Policy By Michael Barone
President Donald Trump's Afghanistan speech Monday night was disciplined, measured and sometimes verging on eloquence. It was presidential. Evidently, his vision wasn't impaired when he looked at the eclipse without the proper eyewear earlier in the day.
August 25, 2017
What Still Unites Us? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Decades ago, a debate over what kind of nation America is roiled the conservative movement.
Neocons claimed America was an "ideological nation" a "creedal nation," dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal."
