Consumer Spending Update: Appetite for Spending Cools As Summer Approaches
Once hot sentiments on the direction of the economy and personal finances following President Trump’s inauguration are now cooling, and so is consumer spending.
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May 12, 2017
May 12, 2017
James Comey Is the Latest Victim of the Clintons By Michael Barone
Why did President Donald Trump fire FBI Director James Comey now? The answer, as my Washington Examiner colleague Byron York has argued, is that he waited until after his impeccably apolitical deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, was in place as Comey's direct superior. Rosenstein was confirmed April 25, and his memorandum titled "Restoring Public Confidence in the FBI" was appended to Trump's firing letter exactly two weeks later.
May 11, 2017
Fewer Americans Know Someone Out of Work
While most Americans still say they know someone out of a job, that number has fallen to its lowest level yet, as has the number who know someone who has given up on the job market. But even though the national unemployment rate has fallen to a 10-year low, adults aren’t totally convinced the job market is better than it was a year ago.
May 11, 2017
For Comey, a Creature of the Swamp, a Deserved Dunking By Charles Hurt
This is what happens if you mess with the swamp. All the swamp creatures begin snapping and writhing and yowling like angry cats in the dark.
For the better part of a year now, the only thing everyone in Washington could agree upon was that now-ex FBI Director Jim Comey was an overreaching, underperforming dolt.
May 11, 2017
House 2018: Health Care Vote Gives Democrats Another Midterm Argument By Kyle Kondik
Democrats are hopeful that Republicans’ vote last week to pass the American Health Care Act provides them an argument to use in next year’s election. Only 20 House Republicans voted against the bill, which is not polling well and which Democrats are angling to use as a cudgel against the GOP.
May 11, 2017
57% Say Nuclear War Likely This Century
As tensions rise with North Korea and Russia, Americans suspect a nuclear war is coming, but they’re also more confident than they have been in years that the United States will still be the world’s dominant power at the end of the century.
May 10, 2017
Voters Like Their Health Care, But Still Want Law Fixes
As President Trump and the Republicans’ new health care plan makes its way through the Senate, voters admit they like the health care they’re currently receiving but still see the need to fix Obamacare.
May 10, 2017
Can Cops Get a Fair Trial in America? by Michelle Malkin
Lock your doors. Hide your children. Police officers, be on alert:
May 10, 2017
Voters See Higher Costs, Lower Quality Care With Single-Payer System
Support for a single-payer health care system reached a new high despite voters’ views that it will increase health care costs and hurt the quality of care.
May 10, 2017
Voters Think Religious Institutions Have a Place in Politics
President Donald Trump this week signed an executive order that seeks to overturn the Johnson Amendment barring tax-exempt organizations like churches from participating in politics or political campaigns. Many worry this blurs the line between church and state, but most voters feel churches and other similar organizations should have a proverbial seat at the political table.
May 9, 2017
Voters Want Guaranteed Health Care, Even If Taxpayers Can’t Afford It
Voters tend to believe it’s the government job to make sure Americans have health care, even though they doubt the government will do it fairly and question whether taxpayers can afford it.
May 9, 2017
Voters Trust Comey More Than Clinton
Voters are more convinced that outside forces cost Hillary Clinton the election, but despite the finger-pointing at FBI Director James Comey as one of those forces, Comey is more trusted than Clinton.
May 9, 2017
Nixon and Trump, Then and Now by Patrick J. Buchanan
For two years, this writer has been consumed by two subjects.
May 8, 2017
39% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-nine percent (39%) 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 May 4.
May 8, 2017
Negative Views of Putin Reach New High
As the United States prepares to sit down with high-level Russian diplomats this week, disdain among U.S. voters for Russian leader Vladimir Putin has reached a new high.
May 8, 2017
Voters Don’t See Eye-to-Eye With Congress
Voters are not likely to say the average congressional representative shares their views. They’re not even convinced their own representative does.
May 6, 2017
Despite Everything, I Am Happy She Lost By Ted Rall
His fans hoped he was another Ronald Reagan. His critics thought he was Hitler. Who would have guessed that, 100 days into a presidency, few besides me saw coming, Donald Trump would look like Jesse Ventura?
May 6, 2017
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 6, 2017
The unemployment rate on Friday fell to a 10-year low, but Americans still suspect there’s more to be done.
May 5, 2017
Voters Don’t Trust Polls, See Anti-Trump Bias
Most voters don’t trust political polls and tend to think pollsters are out to stop President Trump’s agenda.
