Trump's Road Still Open By Patrick J. Buchanan
At stake in 2016 is the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate and, possibly, control of the House of Representatives.
Hence, Republicans have a decision to make.
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August 5, 2016
August 4, 2016
Few Americans Think Complete E-Mail Privacy is Still Possible
Americans are pretty avid e-mail users, but they accept that their e-mail communications will likely never be completely private.
August 4, 2016
Democrats More Protective of Private E-Mails Than Other Voters
Voters are more confident in the federal government these days to protect its secrets, but many, particularly Democrats, think the media shouldn’t publish the private e-mails of public officials even if they’re leaked to them.
August 4, 2016
White House Watch: Clinton 44%, Trump 40%, Johnson, 6%, Stein 3%
A post-convention bounce appears to have given Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton her biggest lead over Republican rival Donald Trump since June in our latest weekly White House Watch survey. This is the first update that includes both the Libertarian and Green Party candidates.
August 4, 2016
Hanging Tough By Larry J. Sabato
On March 31, we released our first general election map of the Electoral College. With our self-imposed rule of permitting no cop-out “toss-ups” — a rule we’ll try to hold to as we handicap this year’s Electoral College map — our bottom-line totals were 347 electoral votes for Hillary Clinton and 191 for Donald Trump. We’ve made modest changes since: Pennsylvania has morphed from Likely Democratic to Leans Democratic, while Virginia — after Tim Kaine was added to the Democratic ticket — went the other way from Leans Democratic to Likely Democratic. Arizona and Georgia went from Likely Republican to Leans Republican, and usually reliable Utah from Safe Republican to Likely Republican.
August 3, 2016
How Does America Feel About the Baby Boom Generation?
The generation known as the Baby Boomers has again produced the two major party presidential candidates, even as most of them are heading into retirement.
August 3, 2016
Not All US Muslim Soldiers Are Equal by Michelle Malkin
Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient Captain Humayun Khan died heroically. But his exceptional courage in Iraq and his Muslim father's post-Democratic convention histrionics on TV do not erase the security threat posed by killer warriors of Allah infiltrating our troops.
August 3, 2016
Most Say Clinton Hiding Something in Deleted E-mails, Don’t Balk at Russia’s Help
Voters are very suspicious about the 30,000 e-mails Hillary Clinton and her staff chose to delete and not turn over to the FBI and aren’t all together sure it would be a bad thing if Russia returned those e-mails to investigators here.
August 3, 2016
Obama Speaks of What He Knows, Being ‘Unfit to Be President’ By Charles Hurt
Donald Trump is “woefully unprepared,” President Obama said Tuesday. “Unfit to be president.”
Well, at least this is one area where the president is a bona fide, qualified expert.
August 3, 2016
Beyond Two Evils By John Stossel
Many people dislike both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton -- for good reason: Both are power-hungry threats to democracy and rule of law.
August 3, 2016
Obama’s Overall Approval Dips Slightly in July
When tracking President Obama’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. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics below.
August 2, 2016
Nevada Senate: Heck (R) 42%, Cortez Masto (D) 41%
The race to replace retiring U.S. Senator Harry Reid in Nevada has tightened up over the past week.
August 2, 2016
Fewer Voters Plan to Sit Out Clinton-Trump Contest
So how many voters still plan to sit this election out now that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the official major party presidential nominees?
August 2, 2016
The Political Picture By Thomas Sowell
The good news is that both political conventions are now behind us. The bad news is that the election is ahead of us.
August 2, 2016
Nevada: Clinton 41%, Trump 40%, Johnson 10%
Following last week's Democratic national convention, Hillary Clinton has bounced back into contention in the key state of Nevada.
August 2, 2016
Does Either Party Have a Winning Strategy? Not Clear by Michael Barone
What is the campaign strategy for the two political parties? Clues can be had from the responses to a question I asked about a dozen dignitaries of each party at their conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia. What's your best guess, I asked, emphasizing guess, of your nominee's percentage of the popular vote in November 2016?
August 2, 2016
Is Trump the Peace Candidate? By Patrick J. Buchanan
With Democrats howling that Vladimir Putin hacked into and leaked those 19,000 DNC emails to help Trump, the Donald had a brainstorm: Maybe the Russians can retrieve Hillary Clinton's lost emails.
Not funny, and close to "treasonous," came the shocked cry.
August 1, 2016
29% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-nine percent (29%) 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 July 28.
August 1, 2016
Americans Disagree With Decision to Release Reagan Shooter
A federal judge last week ordered that John W. Hinckley Jr. who shot President Ronald Reagan and three others in 1981 be released from a government psychiatric hospital and allowed to live with his elderly mother in Virginia. Most Americans don't approve of the judge’s decision. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
August 1, 2016
Voters See Conventions As More of Plus for Clinton Than Trump
Voters followed both national political conventions with equal interest over the last couple weeks but think Hillary Clinton benefited more from hers than Donald Trump did from his.
