Trump’s Full-Month Approval Continues to Slide in August
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.
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September 5, 2017
September 5, 2017
Should Japan and South Korea Go Nuclear? By Patrick J. Buchanan
By setting off a 100-kiloton bomb, after firing a missile over Japan, Kim Jong Un has gotten the world's attention.
September 4, 2017
32% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-two percent (32%) 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 31.
September 4, 2017
For Most, Labor Day Says Summer’s Over
Americans don’t attach a lot of importance to Labor Day, although just over half think it signals the end of summer.
September 2, 2017
Progressive, Heal Thyself By Ted Rall
Many progressives are stupid. Unless they get smart soon, "The Resistance" to Donald Trump will fail, just like everything else the Left has tried to do for the last 40 years.
September 2, 2017
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending September 1, 2017
Rolling off a tumultuous news week, Hurricane Harvey devastated Texas and Louisiana dropping record rains in the continental United States and causing widespread flooding, the effects of which will be felt across the South and up the Atlantic coast for months.
September 1, 2017
Most Now Think Feds Should Finance Weather Disaster Clean-Up
The Houston area is reeling after being hit by Hurricane Harvey earlier this week, but more voters than ever now think the clean-up and recovery efforts in situations like these should be the federal government’s responsibility.
September 1, 2017
Time to Drop Colleges' Racial Quotas and Preferences By Michael Barone
When a policy has been vigorously followed by venerable institutions for more than a generation without getting any closer to producing the desired results, perhaps there is some problem with the goal.
September 1, 2017
Voters Glued to Local Stations, Internet for Weather News
As Hurricane Harvey continues to wreak havoc on Texas, most Americans are following the news intently, and many are doing so through their local television news station.
September 1, 2017
What Harvey Wrought By Patrick J. Buchanan
Like 9/11, Hurricane Harvey brought us together.
In awe at the destruction 50 inches of rain did to East Texas and our fourth-largest city and in admiration as cable television showed countless hours of Texans humanely and heroically rescuing and aiding fellow Texans in the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.
August 31, 2017
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.
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.
