Libertarian Johnson Doesn't Change Presidential Outcome So Far
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton still run neck-and-neck with Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson added to the ballot.
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July 8, 2016
July 7, 2016
Most Now Say Driverless Cars Make Roads Less Safe
The death of a passenger in a driverless Tesla car has called the safety of these cutting-edge vehicles into question, with more Americans than ever saying driverless cars will make the roads a more dangerous place.
July 7, 2016
Voters Oppose Government-Controlled News Coverage of Candidates
An effort by two Democrats on the Federal Election Commission to punish Fox News for including additional – but not all - candidates in its first Republican presidential debate failed in a split vote last week. Most voters agree that it’s not up to the government to ensure that the news media treats all candidates equally.
July 7, 2016
White House Watch: Trump 42%, Clinton 40%
The presidential race has grown a bit tighter in this week’s White House Watch survey.
July 7, 2016
Venus vs. Mars: A Record-Setting Gender Gap? By Geoffrey Skelley
With four months to go in the 2016 general election campaign, national polls suggest that it’s quite possible that the Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump clash may well set a new record for partisan differences between the sexes.
July 6, 2016
Most Think Government, Big Business Work Together Against America
Most voters feel government and big business are a deadly combination.
July 6, 2016
Americans Are Willing to Pay More to Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs
Americans strongly agree with both major presidential candidates about the importance of bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States and are willing to pay more for consumer goods to make it happen.
July 6, 2016
Libertarianism for Beginners By John Stossel
It took me years to figure out that markets work better than government.
July 6, 2016
On Hillary Emails, Comey’s Evidence Clashes with Comey’s Conclusions By Charles Hurt
So it turns out that while you can indict a ham sandwich, indicting our top diplomat for “extremely careless” handling of national secrets at a time of war against the most determined and diabolical enemy we have ever faced — well, that is just a waste of time. Inconvenient. Awkward.
July 6, 2016
Iovi Et Bovi: The Teflon Hillary Standard by Michelle Malkin
There is a classic Latin epigram about double standards that resounds in the aftermath of the FBI's surrender this week to the corruptocracy:
July 6, 2016
Will the West Survive the Century? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Nativism ... xenophobia or worse" is behind the triumph of Brexit and the support for Donald Trump, railed President Barack Obama in Ottawa.
Obama believes that resistance to transformational change in the character and identity of countries of the West, from immigration, can only be the product of sick minds or sick hearts.
July 6, 2016
Most Disagree with Decision Not to Indict Clinton
Most voters disagree with FBI Director James Comey’s decision not to seek a criminal indictment of Hillary Clinton.
July 5, 2016
Racial Discrimination on Campus Likely to Go on Forever By Michael Barone
"Affirmative action" will continue to be the routine course of business of college and university admissions for the foreseeable future. That's the bottom line from the Supreme Court's June decision in Fisher v. University of Texas.
July 5, 2016
Voters Aren’t Happy with NAFTA, Other Free Trade Deals
Donald Trump has vowed to renegotiate NAFTA and other international free trade deals if elected president, saying they are costing U.S. jobs and killing the economy. Supporters say the trade deals lower prices for American consumers. Voters are not big fans of free trade deals like NAFTA but also strongly believe that the politicians negotiating those deals don’t care what they think anyway.
July 5, 2016
Obama's Full-Month Approval Remains At Recent High
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.
July 5, 2016
What Are We Celebrating? By Thomas Sowell
There was a time when the Fourth of July meant something more than a three-day weekend. Speeches, writings and commemorative ceremonies reminded us of the origins and greatness of America. No matter where in the world our ancestors came from, we today are almost invariably better off because they came to America.
July 4, 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 June 30.
That’s unchanged from last week and up three points from the previous week just after the terrorist massacre at an Orlando nightclub. Thirty percent (30%) or more said the country is heading the right way for five out of the first seven weeks this year after tracking in the mid-20s nearly every week during the second half of last year. But the weekly finding has now been back in the 20s since mid-February.
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The national telephone survey of 2,500 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports from June 26-30, 2016. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 2 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
July 4, 2016
Independence Day Still Ranks High For Americans
Most Americans still place high importance on the Fourth of July, although most aren’t planning any travel this holiday weekend.
July 2, 2016
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending July 2, 2016
Is Hillary Clinton in hotter water at week’s end?
July 1, 2016
Who's Really to Blame for Brexit and Donald Trump By Ted Rall
At this writing, securities markets and the international community are reeling at the news that British voters have opted to leave the European Union. The "Brexit" has provoked angry reactions from the pro-Remain camp, who accuse Leave voters of stupidity, shortsighted ignorance and, worse, thinly-disguised racism and nativism posing as nationalism.
