Democrats, Republicans Driven By Different Issues This Election
The economy remains the number one issue for all voters this election cycle, but Republicans are a lot more worried about national security than Democrats and unaffiliated voters are.
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August 8, 2016
August 6, 2016
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending August 6, 2016
Americans rely heavily on e-mail and have to take their chances on whether their privacy is protected. Hillary Clinton had the option of using a highly secure e-mail system while secretary of State but opted out: The FBI says there’s a good chance some of that e-mail is in the hands of our enemies, and Democrats ironically now complain that the Russians will be releasing it to influence the coming election.
August 5, 2016
Khizr Khan and the Triumph of Democratic Militarism By Ted Rall
Against the wishes of her New York Democratic constituents, Hillary Clinton voted with Senate Republicans to invade Iraq. (It was a pivotal vote. Without Democratic support, George W. Bush's request for this war of aggression would have failed.)
August 5, 2016
Most Still Say U.S. At War With Radical Islamic Terrorism
President Obama and Hillary Clinton still won't say it, but most voters continue to believe the United States is at war with radical Islamic terrorism.
August 5, 2016
Donald Trump's Opportunity Cost By Michael Barone
Opportunity cost. That's an economist's term for what you lose out on when you divert your investments and attention to something less profitable. It's also a good term for the losses Donald Trump has incurred in the last six days -- more than 6 percent of the 94 days between the close of the Democratic National Convention and the election in November.
August 5, 2016
If Trump’s ‘Unfit to Serve,’ What About Clinton?
President Obama earlier this week denounced Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as “unfit to serve” and “woefully unprepared to do this job.” Nearly half of voters agree, but they’re not so sure about Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton either.
August 5, 2016
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.
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.
